Higher Ed HR Rock Star Award

Nominations for 2025 are now closed. Awards will be presented virtually this summer.

Higher Ed HR Rock Star Award - Recognizing an early-career professional making an impact in higher ed HR.

Leaders do not need to have decades of service to have an impact! This award recognizes a CUPA-HR member who is serving in the first five years of a higher education HR career who has already made a significant impact.

The recipient of the HR Rock Star Award will be acknowledged during a virtual awards presentation. The award recipient will be encouraged to give back to and engage with CUPA-HR.

Eligibility Note: Individuals who are employed by the association, individuals who are serving on the CUPA-HR national board of directors, and the institutions of those directors are not eligible to be nominated or selected for this award during their terms of service.

CRITERIA

To be nominated, the individual must have:

• 1-5 years of higher education HR experience but no more than 10 years of total HR experience.
• Clearly impacted the institution in the following ways:
  • Engagement, inspiration and positive impact to department and/or institution
  • Contribution of proactive, innovative ideas
  • Thinking outside the box for solutions
  • Emerging leadership skills
  • Passion for higher education HR
• Supervisor’s support (either through a nomination submitted by the supervisor or a letter of support included with a nomination).

All nominees must be employed by a CUPA-HR member institution.

Nomination Guide

Use this guide to draft your nomination submission prior to entering the information in the online form. Once you have started a nomination, you can return to it at any time before the March 27 deadline by going to the My Award Nominations page in your CUPA-HR account (please note, however, that the form cannot be saved mid-page). You can also edit a submitted nomination before the March 27 deadline. Spelling/grammar checks are not available in the online form.