Marywood Alumni Awards

Award Description: The Sr. M. Denis Donegan Award for Long Term Service to Marywood is the most prestigious award bestowed by the Marywood Alumni Association. It is bestowed on alumni of Marywood University who have provided a minimum of 25 years of service to Marywood and who, through their personal and professional contributions, have visibly embodied Marywood's mission by using their Marywood educations in ways that demonstrate the University's call to live responsibly in a diverse and interdependent world. The actions and contributions of each recipient shall support Marywood University's core values of a Catholic Identity, Respect for Each Person, Empowerment, Service and Commitment to Excellence.

Award Criteria:

• A graduate of Marywood University's undergraduate, graduate or doctoral programs.
• A consistent history of providing volunteer hours to Marywood in support of its institutional advancement, education, alumni or community engagement programs.
• Through the various volunteer and financial components, has supported the Marywood University mission for at least 25 years or more.
• Has lived the core values of Marywood in his or her daily life through visible demonstration of one or more of the Core Values:
  • Catholic Identity: Has displayed a visible commitment to spiritual, ethical, and intellectual values in the context of a faith community.
  • Respect for Each Person: Has visibly displayed in word and deed, a respect for the value of each human being, for diversity in the context of vibrant community and for the earth and all creation.
  • Empowerment: Has displayed tangible support for education that enables access and empowers the underserved to take a full role in the life of the broader society.
  • Service: Has tangibly demonstrated a communal leadership by serving others in the local, national and/or global community.
  • Commitment to Excellence: Has visibly displayed his or her commitment to excellence through their personal and/or professional contribution to society.

The Marywood Alumni Association may bestow the Sr. M. Denis Donegan Award for Long Term Service to Marywood on up to one alumni per year providing that evidence exists to support that the alumni meets all of the stated award criteria. The Association may choose not to bestow this prestigious award in any given year if a qualified member of the alumni cannot be found.

Award Description

This award will be given to an alumni who has demonstrated significant professional achievements within 10 years of Graduation from Marywood University (Undergraduate and Graduate).

Award Criteria

• Excellence in service to community locally, nationally and/or globally by applying the Core Values of Marywood University in their day to day lives.
• Excellence in achievement in their professional lives by utilizing their education and experiences at Marywood University and serving as a role model for current and future students and alumni.
• Excellence in dedication to serving the Marywood Community thereby encouraging others to witness the potential of becoming active and serving the institution through example.
• Excellence in leadership by displaying the ability to live responsibly in a diverse and interdependent world.

Award Description

Awards for Excellence are bestowed by the Marywood University Alumni Association upon alumni who have demonstrated achievement within their profession or personal accomplishment that embodies the core values of Marywood University. To recognize the professional achievements or personal accomplishments of Marywood alumni who have pursued a course of study in one of Marywood's four colleges, the following awards of excellence are bestowed:

Award Criteria

• Excellence in achievement in their professional lives by utilizing their education and experiences at Marywood University and serving as a role model for current and future students and alumni.
• Excellence in Creative Arts & Management includes the professions of art, business and management, communication arts, and music.
• Excellence in Health and Human Services includes the professions of health and physical education, nursing, public administration, nutrition and dietetics, physician assistant, and social work.
• Excellence in Education and Human Development covers the professions of communication science, counseling, psychology, education, special education and human development.
• Excellence in Liberal Arts and Sciences includes the professions of English, foreign languages, mathematics, religious studies, science and social science.
• Excellence in service to the local, national, and/or global community by tangibly demonstrating the core values of Marywood University in their day to day lives. The core values include: Catholic Identity, Respect for Each Person, Empowerment, Service, and Commitment to Excellence.
• Excellence in leadership by displaying the ability to live responsibly in a diverse and interdependent world.

Nomination Review

Award recipients will be chosen by members of the Marywood Alumni Association Board and the Office of Constiuency Relations.

Process

Nominations for the Awards will be accepted from any alumni of Marywood University, the student body, faculty and staff, and from friends of the University. Self-nominations are welcome. Names of nominators will not be published. To nominate someone, please click here to reach the Alumni Award Nomination Form

 Previous award winners.