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Award Criteria

Extra Mile Award
Purpose: The Chester I. Walters “Extra Mile” Award is intended to recognize staff members who show evidence of “going beyond the call of duty” in carrying out the responsibilities of their particular assignment.
Eligibility: A minimum of three years of service is required. Recipients may be educators, specialists or administrative staff.

Distinguished Extension Educator Award
Purpose: The award recognizes imaginative and sustained leadership by an Extension Educator in carrying out programs for people in the county or multi-county areas. Cooperation with other Extension faculty in carrying out such a program should be evident.
Eligibility: A minimum of five years of service with the University of Nebraska–Lincoln Extension.

Distinguished Extension Specialist Award
Purpose: The award provides recognition of outstanding contributions by an Extension Specialist in the program area(s) relative to his/her assignment. The award recognizes imaginative leadership in developing and carrying out programs in cooperation with Extension Educators and other Extension Specialists as appropriate.
Eligibility: A minimum of five years of service with the University of Nebraska–Lincoln Extension.

Distinguished Managerial Professional Award
Purpose: The award recognizes imaginative and sustained leadership by an Extension Managerial- Professional (For example, Extension Associate, Assistant, Aide) in carrying out Extension programs. Cooperation with other Extension faculty in carrying out such a program should be evident.
Eligibility: A minimum of five years of service with the University of Nebraska–Lincoln Extension. University and county, full or part-time staff are eligible.

Extension New Employee Award
Purpose: To recognize Extension workers in their first five years of service for outstanding extension programming.
Eligibility: Extension Specialists, Educators and Associates/Assistants with at least a 50% Extension appointment and in their first five years of Extension work at the time the nominations are due.

Excellence in Team Programming
Purpose: To recognize the importance of interdisciplinary team efforts in achieving the goals of University of Nebraska–Lincoln Extension.
Eligibility: By definition, a team is two or more people working toward a specific objective(s). Interdisciplinary teams obviously involve the participation of persons trained in different fields and having different skills. The team participants named in nominations should include only those persons who have made significant contributions to the team effort. These are the lead team persons who came together to initiate an idea, did the initial planning and developed the team effort program. The selection committee will consider the following criteria in making their rankings of nominations: (I) problem identification, team strategy, grant success; (II) productivity and impact and the output of the team in relation to inputs; and (III) the team effort.