The Office of Equal Opportunity and Diversity believes in the importance of promoting the efforts of those striving to promote diversity and inclusion on the University of Iowa campus.

The Office of Equal Opportunity and Diversity, Diversity Catalyst Awards are designed to honor faculty or staff members, programs or departments, and students or student organizations, engaged in diversity initiatives during the previous academic year which have served to promote the development of an inclusive, diverse campus community.

Recipients will be presented a cash award at a reception that will honor all award recipients. We encourage all department administrators to consider nominating those in your areas who have received departmental diversity awards over the past year for this prestigious award.

Nomination Procedure

• Please refer to Criteria for Nomination and Selection for additional information.
  
• Attach a list of the nominee’s contributions and provide specific examples to describe how the candidate meets the Catalyst Award criteria. Supporting letters may be attached, as desired.

Nominations Due: February 20, 2012

• Nomination Form (pdf)
• Criteria for Nomination and Selection (pdf)
• Previous Catalyst Award Recipients