CU GOLD Leadership Recognition Awards

Thank you to all those who nominated and attend our 8th Annual Leadership Recognition Reception!  Congratulations to all our winners - see below.

CU GOLD (Gaining Opportunities through Leadership Development) is currently accepting nominations for the annual Leadership Recognition Awards. All nominees and winners will be recognized at the Leadership Recognition Reception on Tuesday, May 1st.  Thank you for helping us to recognize outstanding leadership on the CU Boulder campus.

If you wish to nominate an individual or organization that exemplifies the requirements of one of these awards, please complete this form and submit it via e-mail to CUGOLD@colorado.edu with the name of the award you are nominating for typed in the subject line.  You may submit multiple nominations.

Student Organization of the Year
This award is presented to a student organization that demonstrates outstanding leadership, involvement, and positive change. This organization promotes leadership from within its membership, actively engages in the community, and makes a difference on campus.

  • Leadership: internally (by providing opportunities for members to succeed), externally (by educating/advocating for others in the community)
  • Positive Involvement: instrumental in implementing change on campus, in the community

 

Rising Star
This award is presented to a student who is an emerging leader on campus and can potentially greatly impact the campus community. This leader shows dedication, makes a difference, and need not have an official leadership position.  Most importantly, this student must demonstrate promise for more leadership growth in the future.

  • Dedication to a cause on campus
  • Already had a positive impact
  • Exhibits promising personal growth that can have a positive effect on the community in the future

 

Outstanding Student Voice
This award is given to a student who shows leadership by working to make positive change for this campus through activism. This person makes voices of other students heard and works to improve the conditions on campus for all students.

  • An activist for a cause on campus
  • Speaks up when others do not
  • Works to educate and inform others to create positive change

 

Lasting Legacy
This award honors a graduating senior who has left a mark at CU.  This person’s engagement and involvement have transformed this campus for the better. This senior demonstrates outstanding leadership on campus that has a long-term impact.

  • Caused a change that would not have happened without this person
  • Created long-term change
  • Demonstrable Leader: redefined the idea of leadership, exemplified the qualities of modern leadership

 

Supportive Staff Member of the Year
This award is presented to a staff member who works with student organizations on campus and recognizably helps and supports the group(s) he or she works with.  This staff member makes the success of outstanding student groups possible and acts as a role model for CU’s student leaders.

  • Committed to the groups they support
  • Go above and beyond their job title
  • Lead by example: students want to follow the example this staff member sets

 

2011 Leadership Award Recipients

Rising Star
Jordan Burns

Outstanding Student Voice
Karly Steffens

Lasting Legacy
Bruce Deakyne

Student Organization of the Year
GlobeMed

Supportive Staff Member
Donald Misch

Honor Code - Integrity Award
Student - Hogan Slack
Staff - Janet deGrazia

CEB Best Cultural Event
Muslim Student Association's Sights and Sounds of Islam Event

Dennis Small Cultural Center- Ripple Award
Chelsea Mullen