Student Leadership Awards Directory

Any undergraduate student who made a great impact on campus through their personal character. This can be done through:

• Building bridges
• Breaking down barriers
• Demonstrating Spartan spirit
• Having genuine pride for attending CWRU

Any first-year student who has demonstrated any of the following is eligible for consideration:

• A desire to learn more about leadership and being a leader at CWRU
• Demonstrated personal growth
• Shows initiative, motivation, and potential for continued student leadership
• Helps others to achieve their potential

Any second-year student who has demonstrated any of the following is eligible for consideration:

• Establishes personal or professional goals and has begun to achieve those goals through their involvement
• Quality, scope, and level of involvement exceed the average sophomore student
• Helping others to achieve their potential

Any third-year student who has demonstrated any of the following is eligible for consideration:

• Established personal and professional goals and continue to achieve those goals and develop as a student leader through their involvement
• Quality, scope, and level of involvement exceed the average junior student
• Demonstrates a desire to build bridges and sustainable partnerships within our campus community
• Helping others to achieve their potential

Any graduating senior who has demonstrated any of the following is eligible for consideration:

• Achieves personal and professional goals and growth through skill-building and leadership development
• Quality, scope, and level of involvement exceed the average senior student
• Demonstrates a desire to build bridges and sustainable partnerships within our campus community or the greater Cleveland community
• Helping others to achieve their potential through mentoring and facilitating the development of rising leaders

Any undergraduate or graduate student who has demonstrated the following is eligible for consideration:

• Demonstrates a sustained commitment to service that contributes to meeting the needs of others.
• Serves in partnership with one or more community organizations to create a positive impact through service.

Any undergraduate student in a university-recognized student organization who meets the following criteria is eligible for consideration:

• Must hold a non-elected position within the organization
• Has a positive attitude and motivation to drive the mission of the organization
• Completes tasks and duties to a high level of quality
• Positively influences the organization

Any undergraduate student in a university-recognized student organization who meets the following criteria is eligible for consideration:

• Serves in an executive role within the organization
• Goes above and beyond responsibilities to consistently improve their organization
• Works to create programs, policies, or services to make our campus community better
• Encourages others in the organization and helps members to achieve their personal goals and potential
• Creates partnerships and builds bridges to maintain sustainable growth on or off campus

Any graduating senior who demonstrates the following is eligible for consideration:

• A commitment to bettering our campus community throughout their entire undergraduate experience
• Has made sacrifices for the sake of benefiting their organization, the growth of others, and the University
• Built strong partnerships and has made meaningful connections within the University or Cleveland community
• Demonstrated personal growth and leadership development throughout their entire undergraduate experience.

Any student who has served as a Supplemental Instruction (SI) leader in Fall 2024 or Spring 2025 and has demonstrated the following is eligible for consideration:

• Served as a Supplemental Instruction (SI) leader during the Fall 2024 or Spring 2025 semester
• Made a significant contribution to student understanding of course material
• Developed and demonstrated superb leadership and professional skills
• Showed sincere care and concern for the academic success of SI participants

Any graduate student in a recognized student organization who meets the following criteria is eligible for consideration:

• Serves in an executive role within the organization
• Goes above and beyond responsibilities to consistently improve their organization
• Works to create programs, policies, or services to make our campus community better
• Encourages others in the organization and helps members to achieve their personal goals and potential
• Creates partnerships and builds bridges to maintain sustainable growth on or off campus

Any graduate student in a recognized student organization who meets the following criteria is eligible for consideration:

• Must hold a non-elected position within the organization
• Has a positive attitude and motivation to drive the mission of the organization
• Completes tasks and duties to a high level of quality
• Positively influences the organization

Nominated by students, this award is given to a staff, faculty, or alumnus of CWRU who has consistently made others feel that they are so important.  The nominee should make students feel valued, affirms the student's sense of belonging, and treats students with respect. Student nominators should have known their nominee for at least one year. 

Criteria

• enhanced human dignity and an understanding of the wide range of backgrounds and life experiences within the Case Western Reserve University and across surrounding communities
• encouraged relationships and interactions among people of various backgrounds
• heightened the worldview and cultural acumen of participants

• Developed and implemented a new outstanding and innovative program that is two years or less old. The nomination should be for the program that occurred between February 2024 and February 2025.
• Met or exceeded the goal and mission of the new event/program series
• Contributed to the quality of life at CWRU

Open to any student or student organization that has:

• Demonstrated the enhancement of an established event or program series through:
  • building new partnerships
  • reaching new audiences
  • positive innovation
• Demonstrated performance of meeting the goal and mission of the program that went above and beyond previous years

Presented to any student organization that demonstrates the following:

• Demonstrates a sustained commitment to service that contributes to meeting the needs of others.
• Serves in partnership with one or more community organizations to create a positive impact through service.

Presented to any University recognized undergraduate student organization that has demonstrated excellence this year in furthering their mission through:

• Excellence in Programming
• Advocacy for a cause of concern
• Service to the campus or community
• Leadership development of members
• Relationship building and promoting collaboration
• Organization's work has improved student life and has increased the quality of our campus community

• Was established between February 2023 and February 2025
• Demonstrated excellence in establishing and striving to achieve goals and the mission of their organization
• Contributed to the growth and promise toward improving the quality of life on campus

Presented to any University recognized graduate student organization that:

• Excellence in programming
• Advocacy for a cause of concern
• Service to the campus or community
• Leadership development of members
• Relationship building and promoting collaboration
• Organization's work has improved student life and has increased the quality of our campus community