Nomination is now closed.
Nominations for the 2024 Vice-Chancellor's Staff Excellence Awards open on 19 September 2024 and close on 13 October 2024.
The 2024 awards will be celebrated at a ceremony in November, where the winner of the Vice-Chancellor's Medal for Excellence, selected from the category winners, will also be announced.
Successful individual awards receive $500 and team awards receive $2,500 per team, with individual awards not exceeding $500. The Vice-Chancellor’s Medal for Excellence awards $5,000 for an individual or $10,000 for a team.
Award categories
Staff are invited to submit nominations across the following eight categories:
- Mission excellence – recognises and celebrates staff who have demonstrated excellence in expressing ACU’s mission and values through areas of service, the pursuit of knowledge, the dignity of the human person and contributions to the common good.
- Holistic education – recognises and celebrates staff who have demonstrated excellence in holistic education by innovatively integrating academic excellence with ethical, spiritual and social development to nurture the whole person.
- Collaborative engagement – recognises and celebrates staff who have demonstrated excellence in collaboration with higher education institutions and their larger communities for the mutually beneficial exchange of knowledge and resources in a context of partnership and reciprocity.
- High-impact research – recognises and celebrates staff who have demonstrated excellence in developing innovative solutions to issues impacting human dignity and the common good through ethically informed research and enterprise activities.
- Global collaboration – recognises and celebrates staff who have demonstrated excellence in enhancing ACU’s global collaboration to amplify our impact across education, research and engagement.
- Research training – recognises and celebrates staff who have demonstrated excellence in supporting, guiding and enhancing the research and development of higher degree research students, thereby fostering a vibrant research culture.
- Collaboration with Church and Church ministries – recognises and celebrates staff who have demonstrated excellence in forging successful partnerships with Catholic organisations with whom we share common objectives, creating alliances that amplify our collective impact and embody a united commitment to the mission of the Church.
- Foundational excellence – recognises and celebrates staff who have demonstrated excellence in strengthening our institutional foundations, to facilitate the sustained success and growth of ACU.
