The campus deadline for receiving entries for the Innovation of the Year is March 2, 2001. Follow the guidelines below to nominate a GCC individual or team contribution for this honor then submit the necessary materials to me. The campus selection team will be made up of representatives from all employee groups and the Faculty Development Committee.

2001

The Maricopa Community College District and the League for Innovation in the Community College co-sponsor the Innovation of the Year Award Program to recognize an individual or a team of employees who have designed and implemented a significant innovation that has had a positive impact on the education of students.  One innovation is selected from each college, skill center, and the district office.  A district-wide innovation is then selected to represent MCCCD at the national level.   The district-wide winner will be presented with the Paul M Pair Innovation Award.

D E A D L I N E S
 

E L I G I B I L I T Y
Employees and employee teams are eligible for nomination by an employee or by self-nomination.  MCCCD teams may include non-Maricopa individuals.

C R I T E R I A
Please relate all criteria noted below to the MCCCD Vision and Mission,  MCCCD Values and the MCCCD Governing Board Goal Statements.  http://www.emc.maricopa.edu/catalog/policies/vision.html

Q U A L I T Y
It is evident that the innovation increases “quality” in the course, program, office or institution.
Value Education

E F F I C I E N C Y
What evidence is there that the innovation contributes to a more efficient way of doing things?
Value Responsibility

E F F E C T I V E N E S S
Is there evidence the innovation adds value to the institution while at the same time containing or reducing costs.
Value Responsibility

L E A R N I N G
What steps or processes were used to share your innovation to benefit students throughout MCCCD?
Value Students

C R E A T I V I T Y
The innovation should be as original as possible or the adaptation should be creative.
Value Excellence

T I M E L I N E S S
The innovation is not more than five years old, but must have been in existence long enough to have been tested so that it meets the listed criteria. Value Excellence

C O L LA B O R A T I O N
How does the innovation integrate collaboration, teamwork and cooperation to ensure continuous process improvement efforts on behalf of students throughout MCCD.
Value Excellence

R E P L I C A T I O N
The innovation selected can be replicated in other institutions with a minimum of difficulty.
Value of Excellence

P R O C E S S
The materials listed below must be submitted.

         1.    Names, titles, college, and telephone numbers of the
                 individual team members who created the Innovation
                 of the Year submission.

          2.    Title and description of the innovation, not to exceed
                 three pages (all supplementary materials will be
                 considered as part of the three-page description limit).
                 The description must include information that addresses
                 the listed criteria.

          3.    An executive summary of the innovation (not to exceed
                 50 words).  Please submit one printed copy of both the description
                 and the executive summary, as well as one copy of each
                 on a PC disk in WORD format.

       4.    Cross college collaborations are accepted.  However, the
                 nomination must be submitted by one agreed upon college/location.

Award winners selected to move on and participate at the district-wide level, may be requested to make a presentation IF the district-wide selection committee deems it necessary or appropriate.

We are extremely pleased that for the second year, long-time member and former president of The Maricopa Community Colleges Foundation Board, Paul M. Pair will be presenting a major gift to the Foundation.   The Paul M. Pair Innovation Award will be used to provide a $2,000 award to the district-wide winner of the MCCCD Innovation of the Year Award Program.

The Paul M. Pair Innovation Award is intended to be used to further the development of the winning innovation.

Dr. Pair has been a lifelong educator and innovator in the field of business and data processing.  He served as the director of The Gregg College (the home of Gregg Shorthand) where he led the way in business education in the 1940’s.  In 1952, he and his late wife founded the Pair School of Business in Chicago and in 1957, founded the Automation Institute of Chicago.  Dr. Pair refers to a quote by famous businessperson Dr. Peter Drucker when explaining why innovation is so important:  “The best way to predict the future is to invent it.”