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ACSP Awards
Each year ACSP is proud to honor faculty and students who
have distinguished themselves or made major contributions to the academy or to
the profession. This year ACSP will award the following prizes for papers
prepared as part of research projects, academic studies, outreach efforts, or
public service OR for service to ACSP, the Academy, or the Profession. For submission
details and deadlines, see “Awards” from the ACSP home page.
Awards
for Students
Marsha
Ritzdorf Award, $100
For the
best paper, report, or thesis that recognizes
superior scholarship reflecting concern with making communities better for
women, people of color and/or the disadvantaged. The winner will be
presented to the Conference at the Saturday Awards Luncheon, and the winner will
be expected to present the paper at a special Conference session. Ed McClure Award for Best Masters Student Paper, $100 For the best paper
by a Masters student enrolled in a PAB accredited planning program. Papers may
address any topic of planning inquiry but thesis, terminal reports and student
group projects are not eligible. The winner will be presented to the
Conference at the Saturday Awards Lunch, and the winner will be invited to
present the paper at a special Conference session. Barclay Gibbs Jones Award for the Best Dissertation in Planning, $1000 For the best dissertation in the field of planning by a person from a PAB accredited planning program who has held the doctorate degree for at least six months but no more than two years. The Jones Awards Committee will announce the winner in October. The winner will be presented to the Conference at the Saturday Awards Lunch, and the winner will be invited to present the paper at a special Conference session. Don Schon Award
for Excellence in Learning from Practice, $1,000 For the best paper, project, thesis or group project by a Masters student or students in a PAB accredited planning program, which reflects Don Schon’s concern for learning from practice. The winner or winners will be presented to the Conference at the Saturday Awards Lunch, and the winner will be invited to present the paper at a special Conference session. Institute for Business and Home Safety Awards, $500 The Institute for Business and Home Safety will make an award to a student who presents a conference paper on the nexus of natural hazards and land-use planning. Students will be asked to present their papers in one of two sessions scheduled for Friday of the Conference. Winners will be presented at the Awards Luncheon on Saturday. Gill-Chin Lim Award for the Best Dissertation on International Planning In recognition of the commitment of our late colleague, Gill-Chin Lim, to ACSP Student Travel Scholarships These scholarships provide financial support to students to
attend the 2007 ACSP Conference, including conference registration and $250 in
cash to defray travel expenses. General Awards
For submission details and deadlines, see “Awards” from the ACSP home page. Jay Chatterjee Award
for Distinguished Service The Chatterjee Award recognizes distinction in career-long service to the planning academy. The committee will present the award at the Saturday Awards Luncheon. Chester Rapkin
Award To honor the best planning article appearing in each year’s volume of the Journal of Planning Education and Research. The Award Committee, in conjunction with the JPER editors, will announce the award in early October. The winner will be presented to the Conference at the Saturday Awards Lunch. ACSP
Distinguished Educator Award The ACSP Distinguished Educator Award is presented in appreciation of service and contribution to planning. The awardee is selected from candidates who are nominated by ACSP members. Nominations must come from chairs or members of the faculty of ACSP member schools. The criteria for nominations to the ACSP Distinguished Educator Award are: scholarly contributions; teaching excellence; service to the industry ranging over twenty years or more, contributions to APA, AICP, and ACSP, state chapters of APA, and other professional and academic organizations; role in local, state, federal commissions and agencies as policy advisors; contributions to one's university; and other contributions which have made a significant difference to planning education and/or practice. ACSP Higher Education Leadership Award The ACSP Higher Education Leadership Award recognizes sustained contributions in academic administration by an urban/regional planning scholar/educator that have led to significant national and/or international impacts on higher education. This is a new award to be presented every other year at the ACSP Administrators Conference. Marcia Feld Leadership Award Recognizes a colleague from the Faculty Women's Interest Group (FWIG) for outstanding leadership within the ACSP organization. Margarita McCoy Award Recognizes outstanding contribution toward the advancement of women in planning at institutions of higher education through service, teaching, and/or research. The Margarita McCoy Award is made by the ACSP Faculty Women's Interest Group. Paul Davidoff Award The Paul Davidoff Award, first presented in 1981 by the
Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP), honors the memory of a
revered and respected activist academic in the field of modern city planning.
Paul Davidoff’s work constitutes a watershed in the theory and practice of
community planning The Award is given bi-annually to an outstanding book
publication which is consistent with his ideals, work and life. The Paul
Davidoff Award honors a publication which promotes values of participatory
democracy and positive social change, opposes poverty and racism as factors in
society and reduces disparities between rich and poor, white and black, men and
women.
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