Recognize Innovation
2014-2015 Innovation of the Year Awards
Call for Innovation Nominations!
We are excited to announce the Call for Innovations for the 2014-2015 Innovation of the Year Awards Program. The Maricopa Community Colleges and the League for Innovation in the Community College co-sponsor the annual Innovation of the Year (IOTY) Awards to recognize an employee or teams of employees who have designed and implemented a significant innovation that has had a positive impact on the education of students. One innovation is selected from each College and the District Office. From those winning innovations, a District-wide innovation will be selected to receive the Dr. Paul M. Pair Innovation of the Year Award, which includes $2,000 to be used to further the winning innovation.
All employees are invited to nominate innovative projects and programs that you have worked on over the past year. To get started, review the Innovation of the Year Program information and criterion on the website, http://mcli.maricopa.edu/innovate. Note: If you have previously submitted an innovation that may not have been selected to receive the Dr. Paul M. Pair Innovation of the Year Award, you are welcomed to resubmit.
There is a NEW online Innovation of the Year Nomination Form:
https://mcli.maricopa.edu/innovate/apply/webform
Online nominations are due Friday, March 6, 2015.
The Process: A winning innovation team selected from each College and The District Office will make a presentation to the Innovation of the Year Final Selection Committee on Friday, March 27, 2015, at the District Office. A review committee will identify the one innovation that will receive the 2014-2015 Maricopa Community Colleges Innovation of the Year and that will be the recipient of the Dr. Paul M. Pair Award.
The Celebration: All selected innovations will be celebrated at the Innovation of the Year Awards Program Reception that will be held on Thursday, April 9, 2015, at the Rio Salado College Conference Center.
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