Chancellor’s Creating Community Awards
NC State recognizes excellence in diversity, equity and inclusion each academic year.
Chancellor's Creating Community Awards
The Office for Institutional Equity and Diversity will host the annual Recognizing Excellence in Diversity (RED) Event, presenting the Chancellor’s Creating Community Awards in six categories on Tuesday, April 9, 2024. The awards recognize outstanding faculty, staff, colleges, students, student organizations and alumni that have made exceptional efforts and contributions in the areas of equity, diversity and inclusion during the course of the academic year. Individuals, colleges/divisions and student organizations may self-nominate.
OIED staff and other university employees whose key job responsibilities connect with equity, diversity and inclusion are not eligible for these awards. Instead, consider nominating DEI professionals for the DEI Awards, sponsored by OIED’s Diversity Equity Fund.
Nominations for the 2024 Chancellor’s Creating Community Awards are now closed.
Awards
Last year’s RED Event and Chancellor’s Creating Community Awards program took place on April 17, 2023 at 10:00 a.m. in the Duke Energy Hall at Hunt Library. Watch the recording on OIED’s YouTube channel.
See the 2023 Chancellor’s Creating Community Award Nominees and Recipients.
View the 2023 RED Event Photo Gallery.
Outstanding Faculty Award
- $500 cash award to recipient
 Outstanding Staff Award (SHRA/EHRA)
- $500 cash award to recipient
Outstanding Student Awards
- $500 cash award to recipient
Outstanding College/Division Award
- $1,000 in discretionary funds to department
Outstanding Student Organization Award
- $500 cash award to organization
Alumni Legacy Award*
* In effort to recognize the contributions of NC State alumni in diversity and inclusion practice, the Alumni Legacy Award was added to the Chancellor’s Creating Community Awards nomination process in 2020.
Criteria
Demonstrates a commitment to the advancement of diversity and inclusion at NC State University and/or in the community through research, teaching, service and collaborative partnerships.
Demonstrates a strong commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion and has gone beyond their administrative role to address the needs and concerns of the NC State community.
Demonstrates a balance between their educational goals and their desires to promote diversity, equity and inclusion in the NC State community.
Demonstrates a balance between their educational goals and their desires to promote diversity, equity and inclusion in the NC State community.
Demonstrates a consistent pattern of commitment to the recruitment, retention and promotion of individuals of underrepresented populations while cultivating and promoting diversity initiatives that establish and foster a more inclusive and equitable work environment.
Demonstrates an effort to achieve their organization’s goals specifically as they relate to creating a diverse, equitable and inclusive NC State community.
Recognizes alumni who have demonstrated a deep and abiding commitment to social justice, diversity, equity and inclusion and who exemplify NC State’s values of community, diversity, respect and social responsibility in their broader community and/or daily deportment.
The deadline for nominations was March 7, 2024.