Two New Awards:
Beginning with the Annual Conference in 2003, the NCLCA Executive Board has honored learning center professionals who have contributed an extraordinary amount of service to the learning center profession, including research, publications, service, and leadership.
Read about our Lifetime Achievement Award winners:
2011 JOHANNA DVORAK
2008 CHARLOTTE SHORT
2005 CAROL CASHEN
2004 MARTHA MAXWELL
2003 FRANK CHRIST
HUNTER BOYLAN RESEARCH SCHOLARSHIP
Deadline: May 7, 2012
The Hunter Boylan Research Scholarship is awarded to recognize research related to how Learning Centers contribute to student academic success as well as persistence.
NCLCA INNOVATIVE USE OF TECHNOLOGY AWARD
Deadline: May 7, 2012
2011 Winners
Lucy MacDonald for HowToStudy.org
Joe Landsberger for Study Guides and Strategies
The purpose of the NCLCA Innovative Use of Technology Award is 1) to recognize individuals, learning centers, or institutions that use innovative technology solutions focused on the learning center to improve student learning, assist learners who may learn differently, improve resource usage, increase student engagement, or enhance learning stratgegies and 2) to encourage proliferation of innovative uses of technology to other learning centers so that students everywhere may benefit.
BRENDA PFAEHLER PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT GRANT
Deadline: May 7, 2012
The purpose of the NCLCA Brenda Pfaehler Professional Grant is to foster the professional growth of our members. It will be awarded to members of NCLCA to assist in research, leadership, and/or curriculum innovation.
NCLCA/ FRANK L. CHRIST OUTSTANDING LEARNING CENTER AWARDS
Deadline: May 7, 2012
The purpose of the NCLCA Frank L. Christ Outstanding Learning Center Award is to give national recognition to the work done by learning centers and to foster their future growth and development.
NCLCA/LSCHE WEBSITE EXCELLENCE AWARDS
Deadline June 25, 2012
This award is co-sponsored by LSCHE and NCLCA. Sites will be judged by a panel that may include a student, faculty member, current or former learning center administrators, past years' first-place award winners, LSCHE editors, NCLCA officers, and a non-learning center web master.
KAREN QUINN NCLCA INSTITUTE SCHOLARSHIP
Deadline: April 2, 2012
Dr. Karen Quinn served as the 1992-93 NCLCA President (then Midwest College Learning Center Association). The Karen Quinn NCLCA Institute Scholarship will be awarded the spring prior to the Institute. NCLCA is honored to name a scholarship in Dr. Quinn's memory.
JULIA VISOR GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE PROPOSAL AWARD
All graduate students who present at the NCLCA annual conferences are eligible for this award. No application is necessary other than submitting the annual conference proposal, indicating graduate student status on the cover sheet of the proposal, and registering as a graduate student at the conference.