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Nell Ann Pickett Service Award Call for Nominations: This award is granted each year to an outstanding teacher whose vision and voice have had a major impact on two-year college professionalism and whose teaching exemplifies such outstanding personal qualities as creativity, sensitivity, and leadership. The award, presented at the annual CCCC Awards Ceremony, consists of a plaque from NCTE and free registration to the following year's CCCC convention. Candidates must meet the following criteria:
1. Major impact on two-year college professionalism.
2. Service qualifications: Positive contributions to professional leadership with a clearly national reach and an inclusive vision demonstrated in such activities as mentoring, publication, or work uniting the goals and efforts of organizations and groups that promote two-year colleges.
3. Teaching qualifications: Past or present excellence in teaching, which exemplifies such outstanding personal qualities as creativity, sensitivity, and leadership.
Any person may nominate a service award candidate who meets the award criteria by sending an overview of the applicant's qualifications in no more than two double-spaced typed pages and a current vitae. The selection committee may request other supporting materials. The 2016 award committee will select the winner from nominations postmarked no later than November 15, 2015. Please send two-page nominating materials (include a résumé, if possible) to: Linda Walters-Moore, Nell Ann Pickett Service Award Committee, NCTE, 1111 W. Kenyon Road, Urbana, IL 61801-1096, [email protected].
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