Awards

Ohio Campus Compact offers the following awards to our member campuses:

Charles J. Ping Student Service Award
The Charles J. Ping Student Service Award is designed to recognize and honor undergraduate students for their outstanding leadership and contributions to community service OR service-learning on their campus and within their community. 2021 nominations are closed. The 2022 nomination period will open late winter ’22.  Visit this page for more information.

David Hoch Memorial Award for Excellence
The David Hoch Memorial Award for Excellence in Service is designed to recognize and honor the outstanding work in service-learning and/or civic engagement by a faculty or staff member at an Ohio Campus Compact member institution. 2021 nominations are closed. The 2022 nomination period will open late winter ’22. Visit this page for more information.

Pay it Forward
Sponsored by Ohio Campus Compact, the Pay it Forward initiative is developing a new generation of philanthropists through an innovative course-based service-learning program that engages Ohio college students in hands-on philanthropy, grant-making, and volunteer service while providing community nonprofits with much needed assistance. Students have the opportunity to award real dollars to local nonprofits through an in-course grant-making process.

Newman Civic Fellowship
Sponsored by the national Campus Compact, the Newman Civic Fellowship recognizes and supports community-committed students who have demonstrated an investment in finding solutions for challenges facing communities throughout the country. The fellowship, named for Campus Compact founder Frank Newman, provides training and resources that nurture students’ assets and passions to help them develop strategies to achieve social change. Through the fellowship, Campus Compact provides learning opportunities focused on the skills fellows need in order to serve as effective agents of change in addressing public problems and building equitable communities. Nominations are closed for 2021. 

Thomas Ehrlich Engaged Faculty Award
The Thomas Ehrlich Civically Engaged Faculty Award recognizes one senior faculty member (post-tenure or middle-to-late career at institutions without tenure) each year. Honorees from Compact member institutions are recognized for exemplary engaged scholarship, including leadership in advancing students’ civic learning, conducting community-based research, fostering reciprocal community partnerships, building institutional commitments to service-learning and civic engagement, and other means of enhancing higher education’s contributions to the public good. The award — previously known as the Thomas Ehrlich Faculty Award for Service-Learning — is named in honor of Thomas Ehrlich, former chair of the Campus Compact board of directors and president emeritus of Indiana University. ​Nominations will open May 15, 2021.