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The Humphrey School of Public Affairs is the University of Minnesota's school of policy and planning.


Diversity Paper Award

Each year the Humphrey School Diversity Committee co-chairs will present an award to challenge Humphrey School graduate students to excel in working on diversity-related public policy issues. The winning paper and a select number of finalists may be published on the Humphrey School website as examples of the best student work on diversity broadly defined.

Nominations for this award are due May 7, 2013.

 

Eligibility

The award will be given to a graduating student who has demonstrated the highest level of excellence in a professional or capstone paper on a topic related to public policy issues affecting diverse populations in the United States or globally. The paper should address diversity with respect to populations that have been marginalized because of their ethnicity/race, gender, sexual orientation, disability, or another characteristic. Poverty status alone is not considered “diversity” for the purposes of this award.

Students who completed their paper after May 2012 and did not submit it for an award in previous years are eligible.

The paper is rated on the following criteria:

  • Addresses an important policy issue related to diversity
  • Demonstrates high-quality writing
  • Demonstrates high-quality research and analysis of the issue
  • Demonstrates creativity and originality of thought
  • Contributes to public policy

Selections + Prize

Nominations are made by faculty members who advise individual papers or group projects. Papers will be judged by a committee of two faculty, one student and one staff member appointed by the Diversity Committee. The award is given, along with a $500 monetary prize, at commencement.

Nomination

Please electronically submit an abstract of no more than one page on the first or second page of the paper to your paper or capstone supervisor. The supervising faculty member will then electronically submit the paper, abstract, and letter of nomination to the Humphrey Student Services Office (hhhss@umn.edu) by 4:30 pm on May 7, 2013.