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Walden University Awards:
Awards

Walden celebrates the accomplishments of the university community—students, new graduates and those who supported them, alumni, and faculty—through a number of annual awards.

Academic Performance Award

Eligible: Graduating Undergraduates

Nominations: Open: March 5-April 1, 2022

Recognizes excellence in academic performance as an undergraduate student who embodies the ideals expressed in Walden University’s core values and a commitment to serving humankind.

Citizenship Award

Eligible: Graduating Master's Students

Nominations: Open: March 5-April 1, 2022

Recognizes excellence in academic performance as a master's student who embodies the ideals expressed in Walden University’s core values and a commitment to serving humankind.

Leadership Excellence Award

Eligible: Graduating Doctoral Students

Nominations: Open: March 5-April 1, 2022

Recognizes doctoral students who have made outstanding contributions through their leadership to the Walden University community over the duration of their time at Walden.

Frank Dilley Award for Outstanding Doctoral Study

Eligible: Graduating Doctoral Students

Nominations: Open February 18-April 1

Bestowed upon a Walden student whose dissertation is judged as meeting the highest university standards of academic excellence.

Harold L. Hodgkinson Outstanding Dissertation Award

Eligible: Graduating Undergraduates

Nominations: Open: March 5-April 1, 2022

Recognizes excellence in academic performance as an undergraduate student who embodies the ideals expressed in Walden University’s core values and a commitment to serving humankind

Outstanding Alumni Award

Eligible: Walden Alumni

Nominations: Open: March 5-April 2, 2022

Bestowed upon an alum who exemplifies Walden’s mission to effect positive social change through contributions to their profession, discipline, or community.