Award winners must demonstrate the following:
- Clearly identifiable programmatic efforts that consistently champion student academic success and achievement demonstrated through meaningful student outcome innovation and examples.
- Evidence of a complete assessment process including assessment collection, analysis, and specifics of how the assessment data analysis led to program improvement.
- Evidence that the program directly led to student success and achievement such as student learning outcomes, increased retention rates, and increased completion or graduation rates.
- Evidence that the innovation is replicable.