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Institutional Values Awards

Eastern Michigan University's guiding principles are identified as follows:

  • Accessibility
  • Relevancy
  • Responsiveness to Change
  • Flexibility
  • Quality
  • Collaboration
  • Accountability
  • Affordability

The Institutional Values Awards are established to recognize the exemplary efforts of individuals or teams working to support the EMU mission, guiding principles and institutional values.

Institutional Values: Definitions

  1. Continuous Improvement, Innovation and/or Customer Service: Individual award for contributions in developing new approaches to service delivery; increasing effectiveness and efficiency; providing greater customer satisfaction; using creativity to improve services to EMU’s students, faculty, staff and external constituencies.

  2. Contributions to the Quality of Student Learning Experiences: Individual award for contributions in providing a positive, supportive environment for student success at EMU (e.g., service as an adviser, plant maintenance, on-campus curricular and co-curricular experiences, involvement in residence hall activities, working with commuter students, mentoring programs, etc.).

  3. Diversity, Human Dignity, Multicultural/International Involvement: Individual award for contributions in enhancing understanding, respect and inclusion of diversity among members of the EMU community and all of its constituencies.

  4. Public Engagement and Community Service: Individual award for contributions in completing exemplary community service activities and building EMU linkages/partnerships with the local community, the Detroit metropolitan area, southeast Michigan, the State of Michigan and the nation.

  5. Support Role in Teaching, Learning, Scholarship, Research and/or Creative Activity: Individual award for contributions in enhancing the content and delivery of undergraduate and graduate programs (e.g., support for increased online offerings, grant-writing to secure external funding, proposals for new courses/programs, mentoring programs, etc.).

  6. Team Excellence: Employee team or group award for contributions in furthering the mission of EMU in the areas of instruction, institutional support or service, cooperation among units, customer service and/or student support, for results achieved in the previous calendar/academic year.

A downloadable document containing the EMU mission statement, guiding principles and definitions of the Institutional Values Awards is available as a Word document or a PDF document.


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