Jay D. Scribner Mentoring Award

2023 Winner Gerardo R. López, MSU

Jay D. Scribner Mentoring Award honors Educational Leadership faculty who have made a substantive contribution to the field by mentoring the next generation of students into roles as university research professors, while also recognizing the important role(s) mentors play in supporting and advising junior faculty. This award is named after Jay D. Scribner whose prolific career spans over four decades and who has mentored a host of doctoral students into the profession while advising and supporting countless junior professors throughout this same time. 

Of particular note, is Jay D. Scribner’s unique ability to reach across racial, class, and gender differences in his mentorship-nurturing scholars from under-represented backgrounds into a profession largely homogeneous in composition.

Faculty from UCEA member institutions are eligible for this award, including faculty belonging to partner member institutions. The proposed criteria for selecting recipients for this award include, but are not limited to, the following:

• mentoring and socializing doctoral students, particularly for future roles as university professors
• introducing students, especially from under-represented groups, to the broader network of scholars at UCEA and beyond mentoring, advising, and supporting junior professors in their trajectory toward tenure
• providing guidance, support, advice, friendship, reinforcement, encouragement, and/or constructive examples to others, which has had a positive impact on their understanding of academia writ large

Nominations are welcome from faculty member(s) of UCEA member institutions and partner institutions. Nominations should include electronic copies of the following:

• Nominee's most recent curriculum vitae;
• Three letters of recommendation,
  1. One nomination letter addressing the contributions of the nominee relative to one or more of the award criteria. This letter can include quotes from other faculty and/or graduate students in support of the nominee. 
  2. Two letters of support from individuals who have been directly mentored by the nominee and who can attest to the nominee’s mentoring strengths throughout their professional trajectories towards tenure and beyond.

The deadline for nominations is August 25, 2024.

Jay D. Scribner Mentoring Award Recipients

2023    Gerardo R. López, MSU

2022    Terah Venzant Chambers, Michigan State University 

2021    Mariela A. Rodriguez, University of Texas at San Antonio

2020    Michelle Young, Loyola Marymount University

2019     Allison Borden, University of New Mexico 

2018     Encarnación Garza, University of Texas at San Antonio

2017     Mark A. Gooden, Teachers College

2016     Carol A. Mullen, Virginia Tech

2015     Betty Malen, University of Maryland

2014     Catherine A. Lugg, Rutgers University

2013     Ed Fuller, Penn State University

2012     James Joseph Scheurich, Texas A & M University

2011     Fran Kochan, Auburn University

2010     Martha N. Ovando, University of Texas at Austin

2009     Paul Bredeson, University of Wisconsin-Madison

 Linda C. Tillman, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

2008     Bruce Cooper, Fordham University

2007     Leonard Burrello, Indiana University

2006     Jay D. Scribner, University of Texas at Austin