University of New Mexico 2008-2009 Sarah Belle Brown Community Service Award

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Background:

Serving New Mexico is central to the University’s mission. Everything we do at UNM – education, research, patient care, as well as public service- advances the interests of New Mexico. To support and promote the University’s commitment to public service, former Regent Doug Brown established this award in honor of his wife, Sarah Belle Brown.

Sarah Belle Brown has devoted considerable time to the community over the past thirty years. Her lifelong interest in helping children and her command of Spanish led her to specialize in teaching English to Spanish-speaking children in the Los Angeles School District. When she and her husband moved to San Francisco, she established a program in that school district focused on assisting newly immigrated Asian children adapt to a new culture. While developing this program, she also served as a Court Appointed Special Advocate for children in foster care, and as Board Chair for the Children’s Home Society, California’s largest social services agency. After relocating to New Mexico, Sarah Belle Brown continued her focus on children’s needs as a trustee of Mount Vernon College and joining the founding board of the charter school, Amy Biehl High School. She has been a ten-year member of the United Way’s Alexis de Toqueville Society, co-founded the UNM President’s Club, and co-sponsored a professorship and several fellowships at the Anderson Schools of Management.

In addition to her volunteer work and philanthropic activities, Sarah Belle Brown focuses a great deal of time on her family, a husband of 30 years and two grown sons. Recently she began playing competitive senior basketball and completed the 2004 San Diego Marathon.

Criteria:

This award recognizes Faculty, Staff, and students  who serve as examples of social responsiveness and who have, over an extended period of time, donated considerable personal time and effort advancing the University of New Mexico’s public service mission.  Nominations are expected to be for service beyond the general scope of one’s professional assignment at UNM.  Nominations must be for service outside of the UNM work hours and must clearly distinguish how this work is not part of the nominee’s normal scope of work at UNM. For students, nominations must be for service above and beyond any requirements for courses, graduation and/or service requirements for membership in student organizations.

Eligibility:

• Staff members must meet the following criteria:
  • Be employed at UNM with a .50 or greater FTE and be off probationary status
• Students can be undergraduate or graduate students at UNM. Students must be admitted into a degree program and be full-time students enrolled in at least 12 credit hours for undergraduates or 9 credit hours for graduate students each semester.  GPA must be 2.75 or higher.

• Faculty members must meet the following criteria:
• Be a UNM Faculty member on a tenure track and/or have received tenure.

• Nominators are encouraged to submit only one nomination form.
  Multiple nominations are discouraged.
• Avoid technical jargon when describing the nominee's service.
• Nominations can be submitte dby UNM faculty, staff, students, alumni and/or community members.

Nomination Deadline:

Monday, March 2nd, 2009 at 5pm

Submit Nominations to:
HRinfo@unm.edu
or
Division of Human Resources
1 University of New Mexico
MSC05 3345
 Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001

Awards

The Sarah Belle Brown Community Service Award is given on an annual basis with an accompanying monetary award for a UNM faculty, a UNM staff, and a UNM student recipient.  All recipients will also have their names placed on a plaque that will be located in the Office of the President.

Ceremony

Award recipients will be notified and invited to a special campus-wide recognition ceremony.

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