The Ripple Award was established in 1995 by the Student Union, the Committee Organization for Rape Education, Residential Advisors, Office of Residential Life, and Office of Student Activities to recognize an individual who stands up for their ideals, strikes out against injustice, bestows unconditional respect upon all beings, enables groups and individuals to flourish, and recognizes the significance of small acts in the effort to attain a greater vision.
Eligibility and Criteria for Ripple Award
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.
- Integration and Meaningful Action
- Individual is able to translate ideas into action.
- Individual seeks opportunities to develop cultural competency and understand themselves as contributing to the improvement of a global society.
- Individual creates opportunities for the inclusion of multiple perspectives to develop synergistic results.
- 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.