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MCC Daily Tribune

2022 Innovation of the Year Award - Call for Nominations

Innovation and excellence are an integral part of MCC, and the Innovation of the Year Award is one of the ways such initiatives are recognized. MCC’s winning entry for 2021 was “College Researcher Badging Program” by Anjali Parasnis-Samar and Alice Wilson in Library Services. To view this innovation, visit the following link: https://www.league.org/web-page/2020-2021-innovation-year-award-winner-monroe-community-college-%E2%80%93-suny.

By spring, MCC will designate our 2022 Innovation of the Year. This award honors faculty, staff, and administrators at League member colleges who have created and implemented innovative programs, practices, partnerships, policies, and activities that improve the institution’s ability to serve students and the community, and reflects significant achievement and the spirit of innovation and experimentation upon which the League was founded.

The innovation should meet one or more of the following criteria:

  • Quality: Students and/or staff agree that the innovation increases quality in the course, program, office, or institution. Evidence of quality may include student ratings or letters of support from colleagues.
  • Efficiency: There is evidence that the innovation contributes to a more efficient way of doing things. Student ratings, perceptions of outside consultants, and pre- and post-comparison of time involved are examples of evidence.
  • Cost Effectiveness: There is evidence that the innovation adds value to the institution while at the same time containing or reducing costs. Cost data will serve as evidence.
  • Replication: The innovation can be replicated at other institutions with a minimum of difficulty.
  • Creativity: The innovation should be original or the adaptation creative. The program description or letters from experts are examples of evidence.
  • Timeliness: The innovation should be no more than five years old at the institution, but must have been around long enough to have been tested so that it meets most of the criteria.
  • Other: Other ways that the innovation is worthy of this award.

All full- and part-time MCC faculty, administrators, professional staff, and support staff members are eligible for the award. When the innovation is a collaborative activity, all members should be nominated as a group. Nominations may be made by any member of the College community after gaining the approval of the nominee(s). Those making nominations must prepare:

  1. a description of the initiative, including its category (workforce preparation and development; learning and teaching; student services and activities; research, assessment, and accountability; resource development; basic skills and developmental education; leadership and organization; or other), and its objectives, methodology, and outcomes; AND
  2. concisely stated evidence documenting how the nomination fulfills the criteria of quality, efficiency, cost effectiveness, replication, creativity, timeliness, and/or other.

Please forward the description and evidence documentation to the nominee’s vice president by noon on Wednesday, March 2, 2022.

The award will include an honorary certificate for each recipient from the League. In addition, the innovation will be acknowledged on the League’s website and the recipient(s) will be invited to present their innovation at the next Innovations Conference. The winner(s) will be recognized at MCC’s Employee Recognition Ceremony.

Calvin Gantt
MCC League Representative
01/24/2022