Individual Student Awards for Co-Curricular Activity

Freshman • Sophomore • Junior • New Transfer • Senior • Graduate Student

This award will recognize those students who contribute to the quality of campus life through their  participation in co-curricular activities. Awards will be given to deserving students in each class level  based on their contributions during the present academic year. Transfer students who arrived in the Summer or  Fall of the present academic year should be recognized as New Transfers. Cumulative contributions are  considered only when evaluating graduating seniors.

Leslie Griffin Lawson Outstanding Leadership

This award recognizes the president/chairperson who has demonstrated an extraordinary personal commitment to their organization and has thus enabled the group to excel in fulfilling its mission and goals. This person’s efforts will have positively affected the organization in significant ways.

UCSB First Community Volunteer of the Year

This award recognizes a UCSB student who has gone above and beyond in volunteering to support the UCSB, Isla Vista, Goleta, or Santa Barbara communities through impactful volunteerism.

Michael D. Young "Model the Way" 

This award recognizes the organization leader who has led their  organization with principles concerning the way people (constituents, peers, and colleagues) should be treated and the way goals should be pursued. They create standards of excellence and then set an example for others to follow. This award is the second in a new series of five awards that recognize the  Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership outlined in The Leadership Challenge Workshop (Jim Kouzes &  Barry Posner, Pfeiffer, 2010). It is given in honor of Dr. Michael D. Young, who retired from his role as the  Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs after twenty-five years of extraordinary service to students and the University of California.

Carolyn Gray Buford "Encourage the Heart"

This award recognizes the organization leader who has led their organization with heart by recognizing individual contributions, celebrating the values and victories of the organization, and fostering an environment of community and belonging among organization members. This award is the first in a new series of five awards that recognize the Five  Practices of Exemplary Leadership outlined in The Leadership Challenge Workshop (Jim Kouzes & Barry  Posner, Pfeiffer, 2010).