BARBARA A. HOLLAND SCHOLAR-ADMINISTRATOR AWARD
BARBARA A. HOLLAND SCHOLAR-ADMINISTRATOR AWARD
The Barbara A. Holland Scholar-Administrator Award honors a bold, mid-career scholar-administrator whose leadership and intellectual voice illuminates the transformative power of urban and metropolitan higher education. Holland Scholars are respected, strategic leaders across their institution who are known for contributing to cutting-edge research related to their administrative role. Their scholarship may focus on, but is not limited to, topics such as diversity/equity, campus culture, faculty development, student health and well-being, curricular innovation, research productivity, planning and assessment, student retention and progress, and community engagement. Holland Scholars approach leadership by drawing on literature and research to ignite the potential of their institution to be successful in its mission and goals. They are inquisitive, inclusive and collaborative, and they are driven to ask and answer scholarly questions critical to their field and professional role as evidenced by a record of their own scholarship. They put their scholarship to good use in addressing urgent issues in urban/metropolitan environments. Their work inspires others to do the same.
Holland Scholars are mid-career individuals distinguished by an integrated record of administrative leadership and high-impact scholarship that has shaped ideas and actions within and beyond their institution. They hold or have held administrative roles with significant reach and responsibility within an institution of higher education, and are viewed by their peers as having both a scholarly approach to their administrative role and the potential for future advancement in leadership in or related to higher education.
Mid-career nominees have many years left to advance in their field, to pursue more impactful leadership roles and to encourage and mentor others to pursue similar goals of leadership and scholarship that focus on addressing complex problems that shape urban life.
- A candidate’s current home institution should be a CUMU member institution
- An individual may only be named a Holland Scholar once
- Candidates may be considered multiple times
- Nominees should have an earned Ph.D. (or equivalent)
The Holland Scholar is selected each year by a committee of current and emeriti presidents and chancellors of CUMU member institutions who can provide an informed perspective on this approach to scholarly leadership. Candidates are assessed across three domains:
- Professional impact and achievement
- Demonstrated intellectual leadership within and beyond their institution
- Scholarship impact relevant to their administrative role
Individuals may self nominate or be nominated for the Barbara A. Holland Scholar-Administrator Award. Upon receipt of nominations, the nominee will be contacted to request completion of full application materials.
The following materials are required for each candidate and serve as the sole basis for the committee’s deliberation. It is the responsibility of each candidate to ensure that his/her materials are complete and accurate. Candidates with complete materials by the candidacy deadline will be considered by the selection committee.
- Current curriculum vitae
- Up to three letters of support, one of which could be a letter of nomination.
- At least one from a colleague at the candidate’s home institution describing the nominee’s approach to leadership through a scholarly lens
- At least one from a colleague describing the candidate’s scholarly impact beyond the institution
- Personal statement (not to exceed 1,500 words) that:
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- Provides a brief overview of the professional and scholarly achievements that make you eligible for this award.
- Identifies the leadership qualities that have enabled you to achieve career success.
- Illustrates how you look to scholarship when making administrative decisions.
- Highlights how you have connected your own scholarship with your administrative role and activities.
- Demonstrates how your administrative leadership activities and scholarship have impacted urban and metropolitan universities.
All items submitted for purposes of this award become the sole property of the Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities (CUMU).
Scholar Recognition
The Barbara A. Holland Scholar-Administrator Award is recognized at the CUMU Annual Conference. The awardee is expected to submit a paper for consideration for publication in the conference issue of Metropolitan Universities journal. Awardees are provided free registration to the CUMU Annual Conference and an award of $2,000. Awardees may also be invited to participate in other CUMU-sponsored activities.
About Barbara A. Holland
Barbara A. Holland, Ph.D., is a professor, researcher and consultant recognized internationally for her scholarship and expertise on organizational change in higher education with a special focus on the strategic impacts of community engagement as a method of teaching, learning and research. Her current academic affiliations are Distinguished Community Engagement Professor of at University of Nebraska Omaha, and Senior Scholar at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis and University of North Carolina Greensboro. She has served in senior academic administrative roles at several universities in the United States and Australia, held a visiting scholar role in the US Department of Housing and Urban Development headquarters for two years during the Clinton and Bush administrations, and was Executive Director of the federally-funded National Service-Learning Clearinghouse for seven years. The library collection, upon the closing of the Clearinghouse, was moved to the Criss Library at University of Nebraska Omaha in 2011 and is called The Barbara A. Holland Collection for Service-Learning and Community Engagement.
For her many research publications and impacts on the field of engagement, including the “Holland Matrix,” Barbara was the fourth scholar awarded the Research Achievement Award from the International Association for Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement (2006). In 2008 she was named as one of the first two Honorary Fellows named by the Engagement Australia association. She was Executive Editor of Metropolitan Universities, the journal of the Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities 1998–2016 and continues to serve in editorial roles for three other refereed journals. Since its inception in 2006, she has served as a member of the National Advisory Panel for the Carnegie Foundation Community Engagement Classification program. Barbara is also a frequent keynote speaker at academic conferences and has been invited to be an in-depth consultant and adviser to many academic institutions across six nations.
Barbara earned her Bachelor of Journalism and Master of Arts in Journalism at the University of Missouri, and a Ph.D. in Higher Education Policy at the University of Maryland. In 2017, University of Nebraska Omaha awarded Barbara an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters. She resides in Portland, Oregon.
2023 HOLLAND SCHOLAR
2022 HOLLAND SCHOLAR
Patrick M. Green, Ed.D., Loyola University Chicago
2021 HOLLAND SCHOLARS
Lina Dostilio, Ed.D., University of Pittsburgh
Deirdre Gonsalves-Jackson, Ph.D., Virginia Wesleyan University
2020 HOLLAND SCHOLAR
Lynn E. Pelco, Ph.D., Virginia Commonwealth University
2019 HOLLAND SCHOLAR
Euan Hague, Ph.D., DePaul University
2018 HOLLAND SCHOLAR
Emily Janke, Ph.D., UNC Greensboro