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Alumni Award Definitions and Criteria – St. Olaf Alumni

Alumni Award Definitions and Criteria

  • St. Olaf Alumni
  • Alumni Awards
  • Award Definitions and Criteria

Distinguished Alumni Award

Exceptional professional achievements partnered with the use of talents/skills in volunteer service to community and St. Olaf College
50+ year history
Award Presentation: Fall Homecoming Weekend
Candidates: Alumni (graduates and former students)

Exceptional Professional Achievements (60%)
  • Excellence in their profession, with professional competencies that lead to unusual success or contribution(s) in a field
  • Innovation or research that leads to advancement of a profession or field
  • Extraordinary contributions and achievements that improve the quality of life for a segment of society
Exceptional Volunteer Community Service (30%)
  • Use of talents or skills, in or beyond profession, to benefit community
Significant Volunteer Service to St. Olaf (10%)
  • Dedication to the advancement of the programs and mission of St. Olaf College through significant volunteer service and consistent loyalty to the college

Alumni Achievement Award

Exceptional professional achievements that advance a profession/field and improve the quality of life for a segment of society
First awarded in 2005
Award Presentation: Fall Homecoming Weekend
Candidates: Alumni (graduates and former students)

Professional Achievements
  • Excellence in their profession, with professional competencies that lead to unusual success or contribution(s) in a field
  • Innovation or research that leads to advancement of a profession or field
  • Extraordinary contributions and achievements that improve the quality of life for a segment of society

Outstanding Service Award

Distinguished and meritorious volunteer service to Community and St. Olaf College
First awarded in 2006
Award Presentation: Fall Homecoming Weekend
Candidates: Alumni, parents, or friends of the College

Exceptional Volunteer Service to their Community and to St. Olaf College
  • Lifelong volunteer service using talents or skills, in or beyond profession, to the benefit of community through involvement and philanthropic efforts which seek to better the quality of life for a segment of society
  • Dedication to the advancement of the programs and mission of St. Olaf College through significant volunteer service and consistent loyalty to the school
  • Adherence to a high ethical standard