The Helen Davis Humanitarian Award was established in 1995 by the Office of Student Activities as a tribute to the dedication shown by Ms. Davis to Washington University and the St. Louis community. The award will recognize a student who promotes human welfare in the St. Louis community through education and service.
Eligibility and Criteria for Helen Davis Humanitarian Award
Eligibility: Undergraduate students from all academic years
Winners of this award will have demonstrated the following:
- Valuing Others
- Individual understands the value of having diverse perspectives within the community.
- Individual seeks opportunities to develop cultural competency and understand themselves as a contributing to the improvement of global society.
- Individual creates opportunities for the inclusion of multiple perspectives to develop synergistic results.
- Ethics and Integrity
- Individual understands their actions, both public and private, are reflective of their values.
- When faced with ethical issues, individual challenges themselves and others to act in ways congruent with their personal and shared values.
- Individual demonstrates the highest level of integrity in all aspects of their lives.
- Connection and Collaboration
- Individual seeks out meaningful relationships to foster positive change.
- Individual understands these relationships not simply as a means to an end but as an integral component of creating an effective community.
- Individual finds ways to motivate, utilize, and incorporate others to move their vision forward.
- Vision and Strategy
- Individual understands the importance of challenging the status quo and applying creative and innovative solutions to affect positive change.
- Individual has developed a vision for change.
- Individual has formulated goals and action steps necessary to bring their vision into reality.