Nominations sought for service awards Nominations sought for service awards Elizabeth Grimsley News Reporter Kimmel Leadership Center and the Belleville News-Democrat are accepting nominations for the Community Service Award for SIUE faculty and staff and for the Kimmel Scholarship Award that is given each year to an SIUE student.
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Sperotto said the awards will recognize those who best exemplify the qualities demonstrated by Carol Kimmel for whom the center is named. Candidates for the Kimmel Scholarship Award must be degree-seeking students with sophomore status or higher, who have contributed to community service within the last two years and have a cumulative grade point average of at least 3.0. Nominations may be made for any full-time university employee by a person who has known the candidate for at least two years. The other primary eligibility criteria is the demonstration of an outstanding variety of community service contributions over an extended period. Sperotto believes the award is important because it helps to reduce the anonymity often associated with volunteer work.