MWE SIG Awards 2025
Application deadline is November 15, 2024.
MWE Education Innovator Award
Awarded to an exceptional higher education faculty member who has demonstrated extraordinary pedagogy and/or research in minority and/or women's entrepreneurship in the past year. Preference shall be given to members of the MWE SIG.
MWE Emerging Scholar Award
Awarded to an emerging scholar/educator who has demonstrated early career success in minority and/or women's entrepreneurship and offers promise for further advanced innovative research and/or instruction in this area. Nominees should be within five years of earning a doctorate as of the date of nomination with preference given to members of the MWE SIG.
MWE Practitioner of the Year Award
Awarded to an exceptional practitioner who has demonstrated extraordinary work with minority and/or women's entrepreneurship programs or people in the past academic year. Preference shall be given to members of the MWE SIG.
Each nomination requires the submission of the information described below.
- Name of individual being nominated, website, institution, address, email address, phone number
- Name of Nominator, institution, email address, phone number
Please upload a letter of nomination no longer than two pages long which describes how the nominee fits the following criteria:
- Nominees should be an individual who serves as a lecturer, professor, or educator of teaching entrepreneurship online currently or within the past 12 months.
- Nominees should be directly teaching a full course in entrepreneurship to be considered.
- Innovative practices, methods, courses, or noncredit courses/programs, or approaches to online teaching will be considered.
- Course evaluations cannot be submitted unless embedded within the two-page nomination.
- A demonstrated commitment to online entrepreneurship education at any level, and their impact on entrepreneurship education will be considered as well.
- Finalists may be contacted for further information, as needed.
- Self-nominations are welcomed.
- Finalists may be asked if they are willing to be nominated and to submit a CV for further consideration and review.