The Outstanding Student Group Award recognizes exemplary leadership and commitment by a student group to the Washington University community. The Outstanding Student Group will have shown progressive leadership and commitment to creating opportunities and experiences that promote a vibrant and active campus environment.
Criteria for Outstanding Student Group Award
Groups receiving this award will demonstrate the following:
- Ethics and Integrity
- Group understands their actions, both public and private, are reflective of their values.
- When faced with ethical issues, the group challenges themselves and others to act in ways congruent with their personal and shared values.
- Group demonstrates the highest level of integrity in all aspects of their lives.
- Communication
- Group seeks understands that effective communication is a crucial component of successful leadership.
- Group demonstrates proficiency across multiple modes of communication and effectively and appropriately utilizes technology.
- Group is able to engage in meaningful conversations and interactions with others.
- Vision and Strategy
- Group understands the importance of challenging the status quo and applying creative and innovative solutions to affect positive change.
- Group will have developed a vision for change.
- Group will have formulated goals and action steps necessary to bring their vision into reality.
- Connection and Collaboration
- Group seeks out meaningful relationships to foster positive change.
- Group understands these relationships not simply as a means to an end but as an integral component of creating an effective community.
- Group finds ways to motivate, utilize, and incorporate others to move their vision forward.
- Integration and Meaningful Action
- Group is able to translate ideas into action.
- Group seeks opportunities to develop cultural competency and understand themselves as contributing to the improvement of a global society.
- Group creates opportunities for the inclusion of multiple perspectives to develop