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Nominate distinguished devils

Sun Devils may be nominated for a Pitchfork Award for their programming, activities and accomplishments completed between Jan. 1 and Dec. 31.

 

Award Categories

Emerging Student Leader (per campus)
Awarded to a newer ASU student leader who has demonstrated excellent leadership accomplishments and displays promising future contributions to the ASU community within the first year of service/leadership. A student is not eligible to win both the Emerging Leader and Outstanding Leader award.

Outstanding Undergraduate Student Leader (per campus)
Awarded to an ASU undergraduate student who has demonstrated excellence in leadership. Candidates for this award should embody the Sun Devil Way: Achievement, Engagement, and Responsibility. A student is not eligible to win both the Emerging Leader & Outstanding Undergraduate Student Leader Awards; please choose the category that best fits the student you are nominating.

Outstanding Graduate Student Leader (per campus)
Awarded to an ASU graduate student who has demonstrated excellence in leadership. Candidates for this award should embody the Sun Devil Way: Achievement, Engagement, and Responsibility. A student is not eligible to win both the Emerging Leader & Outstanding Graduate Student Leader Awards; please choose the category that best fits the student you are nominating.

Sun Devil Way Individual Award
The Sun Devil Way Individual Award recognizes one outstanding student who exemplifies the core values of Sun Devil Way—achievement, engagement, and responsibility—through their exceptional leadership, advocacy, and dedication to the ASU Charter. This student has gone above and beyond to foster a sense of belonging within the ASU community. Recipients of this award demonstrate a sustained commitment to creating positive change.

Outstanding Faculty Advisor
The Outstanding Faculty Advisor Award recognizes a faculty member who has demonstrated exceptional dedication to student success, leadership development, and the overall growth of their student organization. This award honors an advisor who has gone above and beyond in their role, providing guidance, mentorship, and unwavering support to their students. Their commitment to fostering an inclusive and engaging environment has had a lasting impact on both the organization and the campus community.

Sun Devil Way Award
Awarded to an ASU group who has demonstrated the values of the Sun Devil Way: Achievement, Engagement, and Responsibility. This student organization demonstrates the value of lifelong learning and service to the community. They embody what it means to be a Sun Devil through spirit, pride, and tradition.

Most Promising New Student Organization
Awarded to a new ASU student organization (first registered on or after January 1, 2024) demonstrating excellent first-year accomplishments, a commitment to developing their own membership and/or developing programming to engage the greater campus community. This organization shows promise to be successful in the years to come and to contribute to the ASU community.

Outstanding Graduate Student Organization
Awarded to an ASU graduate-level registered student organization comprised primarily of graduate students at Arizona State University that demonstrates outstanding accomplishments and contributions to the ASU and graduate student communities. Nominees for this category should engage with the larger campus community to build affinity towards the university and be examples of spirit, pride, and/or tradition. Organizations should embody the values of the ASU Charter.

Outstanding Undergraduate Student Organization (per campus)
Awarded to an ASU undergraduate-level registered student organization composed primarily of undergraduate students at Arizona State University that demonstrates outstanding accomplishments and contributions to the ASU and undergraduate student communities. Nominees for this category should engage with the larger campus community to build affinity towards the university and be examples of spirit, pride, and/or tradition. Organizations should embody the values of the ASU Charter.

Outstanding Educational Program
Awarded to a student-led event that encourages students to participate in the intellectual life of the university and/or understand the intersection of academic and co-curricular life. Nominations should showcase one or more academic disciplines, advance student-driven research or scholarly activity, foster student-led discovery, facilitate conversation or promote awareness on a specific issue relevant to the student body, or focus on programming related to the exploration of opportunities based on skills, interests, and passions, or build skills within a professional area or field.

Outstanding Entertainment Program
Awarded to an outstanding student-led event with the primary goal of providing entertainment or a social outlet (in person or virtual/online) for ASU students.

Outstanding Sustainable Project/Program
Awarded to an ASU student-led effort that has shown exceptional leadership in advancing sustainability at ASU. The project or program should align with one or more of ASU’s overarching sustainability goals (https://cfo.asu.edu/sustainability-goals-and-vision).

Changemaker Award for Social Change
Awarded to an ASU student-led effort that has effectively raised awareness of or shown exceptional leadership connected to a local, national, or international group that focuses on one or more civic or social causes on a broad level beyond our physical campus. Candidates for the award should align with ASU aspirations to leverage our place, transform society, value entrepreneurship, conduct use-inspired research, enable student success, fuse intellectual disciplines, be socially embedded, and/or promote civic engagement.

Outstanding Collaborative Program (3+ student organizations)
The Outstanding Collaborative Program is awarded to a program which exemplifies the positive outcomes of collaboration within or between three or more student organizations. This program must be a true collaboration between multiple organizations, with planning, implementation, and evaluation work divided among partners. Please detail the collaborative contributions of each involved group.

Outstanding Inclusive Excellence Program
Awarded to a student-led event designed to foster a deeper exploration of the intellectual, ethnic, and cultural diversity of our campus community. The program should align with ASU’s goal to provide greater understanding and perspective of all student identities, backgrounds and perspectives and can be educational and/or celebratory in nature. This award will be awarded to a university-supported event and smaller student organization events.

Well Devil Award - Outstanding Wellness Project / Program
Awarded to an outstanding student-led effort that has shown exceptional leadership in taking preventative measures in wellness endeavors. The project or program should be innovative and align with ASU’s wellness goals to establish an ASU community that embraces physical, emotional, spiritual, and social well-being of self and others as fundamental to the Sun Devil experience.

Nomination Criteria


Please provide a written statement of support. Nomination statements should be detailed, fully developed, and include specific examples. Honorees are selected based on their excelling in the award criteria so please include detailed examples of how they best meet the award criteria listed above. Pay particular attention to providing examples of how the nominee promotes ASU spirit, pride, and tradition in all they do. The selection committee will only have the information provided in the nomination upon which to base their decision.

Questions about nominating


If you have additional questions about nominating a student or group, please visit the student organizations office on your camps.