The Good Works Award is meant to recognize achievement in educational practices.  The selection criteria are as follows:

1. The practice shall exhibit a deep and consistent commitment to “the worth and dignity of each individual as a moral agent in a pluralistic society.”

2. The practice shall exhibit excellence in either an intensive one-time project or a long-term or ongoing program as demonstrated in credible testimony from participants, practitioners, or observers, or by research on the practice by the practitioner(s) or others.

3. The award may be given to a single practitioner, a team of practitioners, the project or practice itself, or a sponsoring institution, as the selection committee deems appropriate.

4. Although the practice need not be replicable beyond its own circumstances, it should be exemplary within those circumstances, and of significant interest to moral educators in other circumstances.

5. As this award is meant to recognize achievement in educational practices, outstanding scholarly achievements are not also required, although scholarship by the practitioner(s) about the project or program would be an additional reason to grant the award.

6. The awardee(s) need not hold membership in the AME.  

This a non-monetary award to be made at the annual conference but not necessarily on an annual basis, but rather as worthy nominations are made. The awardee shall receive a plaque or other artifact and recognition in the AME newsletter and on its website and through any other channels of communication available to the organization, including, for example, press releases to the home institution or appropriate media.

The deadline for nominations is April 30, 2008. Please submit via email to Kaye Cook.