In order for healing to take place, powerful spiritual moments have to be created involving growth, understanding, forgiveness and action. This award is named after Alexander Astin , the Allan Murray Carter Professor of Higher Education and Work at UCLA, for his efforts to conceptualize, acknowledge and recognize the role that spirituality plays in unfolding and enriching the lives of faculty, staff and students. This award is given annually to a member of the ASU community for creating spiritual moments that lead to greater growth, understanding and action around issues of diversity. Recipient David Morales, Undergraduate Admissions return to the top the Kelly Maxwell Outstanding Graduate Student Award ASU graduate students have made and continue to make tremendous contributions to the success of the Intergroup Relations Center in the areas of intergroup interaction, training, education, and research. Thus, we honor her with this award which is given annually to an outstanding Arizona State University graduate student who makes contributions to the work of the Intergroup Relations Center and the enhancement of intergroup understanding.
Positive change is the work of both visionary individuals and committed groups.
From attending to its own diversity, to supporting justice and community across campus, the honoree has challenged itself and others as an example of positive strength in numbers. Working with women and men on these systemic issues requires a constant process of reflection, motivation, and determination. To that end, we name and honor those women who came before us as allies, inspiring us to take risk, and to undertake collective action in naming and claiming women's space for the respect, dignity, and worth of all women. This award is named in honor of one of these women, Monalee Ewing , who is an inspirational leader, ally, risk-taker, mother, and womentor. Her work and actions continue to inspire her daughter to take action against and create change on issues that relate to the discrimination and oppression of women, by naming and claiming women's space.