Butts-Whiting Award

Porter Butts (left) and Edgar A. Whiting (right)

Previous recipients | Description | Eligibility | Criteria | Nomination information | Submitting the nomination | Selection and presentation

Previous recipients

1967	Porter Butts, University of Wisconsin Edgar A. Whiting, Cornell University
1969	Chester A. Berry, Stanford University Harold E. Pride, Iowa State University
1970	Max H. Andrews, Queens College William E. Rion, University of Florida
1972	C. Shaw Smith, Davidson College
1973	George F. Stevens, Oregon State University
1974	Boris C. Bell, George Washington University
1975	Edwin O. Sigglekow, University of Minnesota
1976	Shirley Bird Perry, University of Texas–Austin
1977	Richard D. Blackburn, Indiana University–Bloomington
1978	William D. Scott, University of Houston
1979	Lyle S. Curtis, Brigham Young University
1980	Jack S. Sturgell, University of Delaware
1981	Gail B. Clay, University of Tennessee
1982	Ronald C. Barrett, San Jose State University
1983	Ernest L. Bebb Jr., University of Utah
1984	Phyllis P. Marshall, University of South Florida
1985	Earl Whitfield, California State University–Fresno
1986	John F. Ketter, University of Northern Iowa
1987	Adell McMillan, University of Oregon
1988	LeNorman Strong, George Washington University
1989	Dorothy Pijan, Case Western Reserve University
1990	Linda L. Eldred, Indiana State University
1991	Greer Dawson Wilson, University of Virginia
1992	William E. Brattain, Western Illinois University
1994	Joseph H. Benedict Jr., CUNY-Brooklyn College
1995	Winston Shindell, Indiana University–Bloomington
1996	Neil Gerard, Pomona College
1997	J. William Johnston, Northwestern University
1998	Gretchen Laatsch, University of Akron
1999	Shirley Plakidas, Louisiana State University
2000	Jay Boyar, Prince George’s Community College
2001	Susan Yung Maul, University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign
2002	Debra Hammond, California State University–Northridge
2003	Robert Schneeweiss, Central Connecticut State University
2004	Meg O’Sullivan, SUNY Downstate Medical Center
2005	Bernard Pitts, Kansas State University
2006	Matt Cameron, Santa Clara University
2007	Colette Berge, Pikes Peak Community College
2008	Donnchadh O'hAodha, National University of Ireland–Cork
2009	Bob Rodda, College of Wooster
2010	Sally Hammock, Georgia Institute of Technology
2011	Robert Rouzer, University of Illinois–Chicago
2012	Don Luse, University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill
2013	Robert Mindrum, Purdue University

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Description

The purpose of this award is to recognize and honor outstanding leaders in ACUI who have made significant contributions to the college union and student activities movement and whose accomplishments and careers are a credit to ACUI.

This award also spotlights the accomplishments of the Association and thereby increases the pride of the staff and students who work with the college union program on each campus. It presents to college communities around the world tangible evidence of the effectiveness of the programs of the college union.

In establishing this program, it is recognized that the award is given for outstanding achievement and that no compromises diminishing the significance of the award are to be made.

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Eligibility

The recipient must be a person who has participated in the college union and student activities movement as a professional for a minimum of ten years and who is active in the field at the time of nomination. A person may receive the Butts-Whiting Award only once.

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Criteria

The nominee must:

• Have attained prominence through his or her efforts to develop the college union and student activities movement on a regional and international basis through his or her work within the Association and on campus.
• Be a person of such integrity, stature, and demonstrated ability that the students, faculty, staff, and alumni of his or her college will take pride in and be inspired by this recognition.
• Be a person eminently successful on campus, in the Association and in the community - with a record of accomplishment that is impressive to the college union and student activities movement.
• By his or her deeds and actions reflect the importance of his or her position and pride in and loyalty to the college union and student activities movement.

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Nomination information

Please place nominations online by filling out the Butts-Whiting Award nomination form. Only one nomination is necessary for an individual nominee to be considered, and the identity of the nominator will not be disclosed to the selection committee. The committee may consider only people properly nominated. Nomination packet should include:

• Name, title, and contact information for the person being nominated for the award
• Supporting evidence of their fulfillment of all eligibility requirements and award criteria
• Other information that would support the nomination of the person for the award, including present and past positions held in the college union and student activities field, service to ACUI (local, regional, and international), service to the nominee's own campus(es), service to other professional organizations (if applicable), community activity, and other qualifications or comments

Failure to provide all information requested in the nomination packet may result in only partial consideration of nominee.

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Selection and presentation

Applications will receive written or electronic notification confirming receipt or the nomination. The Butts-Whiting Award recipient is selected by a secret committee, chosen annually by the ACUI president. Not more than one award will be presented during any year. An award need not be made every year. The award will be presented at the ACUI annual conference in St. Louis. The winner will receive a bronze medallion bearing a dual portrait of Porter Butts and Edgar A. Whiting, along with the name of the recipient.  Nominations are due by Nov. 16, 2012.

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