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2001
AICP Student Awards
AICP's
student awards program is again underway. This
memorandum provides a general description of the awards with detailed
information attached. Faculty and students often participate in community-based
planning activities. The American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP) is
particularly interested in connecting education and practice. To help facilitate
this, AICP would like to receive projects that demonstrate the student’s role
on issues of planning practice within a community involving field work,
internships, preparing plans, studios, working with public planners, citizens,
etc. We
encourage you and your students to participate. (1)
Student Project Award Purpose: To recognize outstanding achievements that contribute to advances in
the field of planning to a student or group of students in an accredited
planning
NOTE: Any
application submitted without slides will not be considered and returned. Deadline:
Must be received in the Washington,DC
office no later than December 8, 2000. (2)
Outstanding Student Award Purpose:
To recognize attainment in the study
of planning by a student who is being graduated from an accredited program
during the academic year of the award. Deadline: Must be received in the Washington, DC office no later than April 20, 2001 .
Student Project Award
2001
The American Institute of Certified Planners
recognizes outstanding achievements that contribute to advances in the field
of planning. Awards will be
presented in April 2001 at the APA national conference to a student or group
of students in an accredited planning curriculum for an outstanding paper or
class project. No more than three
awards will be given. The award
categories are: the project that best demonstrates the contribution of
planning to contemporary issues, the project best applying the planning
process and applied research.
Selection Criteria 1. Innovativeness:
Originality
of concept or appreciable refinement of existing techniques or procedures. 2. Transferability:
Potential
application to other locations, projects, or areas of planning interest. 3. Quality:
Excellence
of thought, analysis, writing, graphics, and character of presentation. 4. Implementation:
Effectiveness
of the work (proposals have been carried out, show promise of being carried
out, or demonstrate an effective implementation technique). 5. Comprehensiveness:
Planning
principles have been observed, especially in considering a project's effects
on other public objectives. Eligibility 1. One nomination for
an award may be made by either: a. The Head of a PAB accredited university planning degree program Not
more than one nomination is
to be made by any nominator. Not
more than one nomination is to be made by any one degree program. 2. Any project nominated must have been completed within three years of the
date of submission.
3. An award will
not be given to the same project more than once. 4. Members
of the AICP Awards Jury, of the AICP Commission, and the APA Board of Directors
are not eligible during their terms of service. Members of staff also are not eligible. 5. This awards
program is intended to recognize exceptional work by the student(s). While it is
appropriate to submit a project or paper on which a faculty member(s) has given
guidance or even suggested the topic, any analysis, proposal, recommendations or
graphic should be primarily the work of the students. Procedure
and Schedule 1. Use the nomination form attached, or a photocopy of
it, for all nominations. 2. Include
all the descriptive and supporting statements listed in the form. 3. Send five
copies of the following: the nomination form, a one-page summary describing the
project, a one-page statement in support of the project from the nominator, the
project and any other material especially appropriate to the nomination, and one
set of 3-6 slides suitable for showing (along with who took the slides or
whom to contact for permission to use the slides) to Tim Akers, Student Project
Awards, AICP, 1776 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20036. NOTE:
If slides are not submitted with the project, it will be not accepted and will
be returned. 4. Every nomination must be received, complete
and with all supporting materials, in the Washington, DC office
by December 8, 2000. Late
submissions will not be accepted. 5. The Jury's
procedures prohibit communicating individually to any Jury members on behalf of
the nominee. Should an unusual
problem require Jury attention it may be communicated to Tim Akers in the
Washington office. 6. Award winners will be notified as soon as decisions
have been made. 7. Award winners will be announced and presentations
made at the APA National Conference in New Orleans, LA |
