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This award honors a tenured associate or full professor whose scholarship has made significant contributions toward identifying or addressing issues of public concern and whose work advances civic engagement through scholarship and service-learning opportunities for students. Engaged scholarship enriches knowledge, addresses critical social issues and benefits communities. Service-learning projects provide academically-based activities that connect student learning to outreach and engagement in a community context. At “engaged institutions,” faculty and students are involved in teaching, research and service in an integrated way. The Scholarship of Engagement Award provides the honoree with a $5,000 faculty development grant to sustain or enhance current outreach projects or to develop new ones.
The Hill Awards recognize distinguished achievement in public service and outreach by University of Georgia faculty members and service professionals. Each recipient is judged to have made contributions to the improvement of the quality of life in Georgia or elsewhere of an order that greatly exceeds the normal accomplishments of a productive faculty member. A maximum of five Hill Awards are presented each year. Each awardee receives a permanent salary increase of $2,000 beyond the raise provided through the normal allocation process.
The Hill Fellow Award is UGA’s highest award in public service and outreach. It recognizes sustained, distinguished, and superb achievement in university public service and outreach, and contributions to improving the quality of life in Georgia or elsewhere. Only Hill Award winners are eligible for appointment as a Walter Barnard Hill Distinguished Public Service and Outreach Fellow. The appointee receives a salary increase of $1,000 beyond the raise provided through the normal allocation process, and the appointee also receives a supplementary fund for use in the advancement of his or her program of work.