Welcome! We are glad you are interested in ALE Award. These awards allow
us to recognize our talented and diverse ALE members who are setting
the standard for leadership education through the exchange and
development of quality ideas, scholarship, and practice.
Through generous contributions from Dr. Peter Northouse and SAGE
Publishing, these awards now include a $500 honorarium and have been
named in recognition of their support to the association and
contributions to the field.
Additionally, recipients of the following individual awards will receive a $500 honorarium funded by ALE: ALE Rising Star Award, ALE Distinguished Leadership & Service Award, and the Robin Orr Practitioner Award.
Please click on the awards title to read a full description of the purpose, eligibility, application requirements and instructions for nominations. (Please note that dates may correspond to a previous year until the current year's call for nominations is published.) All nominees must be current ALE members in good standing.
Peter Northouse Outstanding Teaching Award
This award recognizes an
ALE member for their contribution to advancing leadership education
through outstanding teaching and learning.
SAGE Outstanding Scholar Award
This award recognizes an
ALE member for their contribution to advancing leadership education
through their scholarship. This may include various forms of
publication, presentations, and other scholarly works that advance
leadership education teaching, research, and practice.
ALE Distinguished Leadership & Service Award
This award recognizes an experienced ALE member whose leadership and service upholds and embodies the association's mission: to strengthen and sustain the expertise of professional leadership educators.
ALE Rising Star: Early Career Leadership & Service Award
This award recognizes an early career ALE member whose leadership and service upholds and embodies the association's mission: to strengthen and sustain the expertise of professional leadership educators.
Robin Orr Outstanding Practitioner Award
This award recognizes a distinguished practitioner for their significant accomplishments and contributions to leadership education and related fields. For the purpose of this award, a practitioner may include student affairs professionals, administrators, trainers, extension specialists, community leadership, military service or those holding other primarily non-teaching roles.
Founding Mothers Student Scholar Award
ALE recognizes the importance of student involvement in growing the discipline of ALE. This award supports conference participation for up to four graduate and undergraduate student presenters.
ALE Outstanding Program Award
This award is designed to recognize outstanding leadership programs developed or implemented by leadership educators. Two awards will be given in this category;
one for a program that has the primary purpose of academic credit, and
another for a program that has the primary purpose for an
out-of-classroom experience.
Note: Awards are considered a membership benefit and only paid dues members are eligible for these awards.
Past Recipients
ALE
is comprised of talented and diverse members pursuing our vision by
setting the standard for Leadership Education through the exchange and
development of quality ideas, scholarship, and practice.
ALE Award Recipients
