The Provost’s Awards for Excellence in Undergraduate Student Success annually recognizes staff, faculty and administrators at Pitt who have positively impacted the student experience by engaging in collaborative and holistic academic advising and student success practices.

Deadline to nominate someone for the awards — formerly the Provost’s Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Advising — is Jan. 3, 2025.

To be eligible for an award, the nominee must be a current staff, faculty or administrator and have served full-time at Pitt for at least two years at the time of the nomination. Awards may be chosen from the following four categories, depending upon submissions:

Professional Staff Academic Advisor Award: Primary role, professional staff who formally serves as a student’s designated undergraduate academic advisor (Advisor I, Advisor II, Advisor III) 

Faculty Advisor and Mentor Award: Full-time faculty who provide advising and/or mentoring for undergraduate students in their discipline, major, college or school for opportunities such as internships, graduate school preparation, career, research.

Advising Administrator Award: Staff, faculty or executive personnel whose primary role is to administer advising, but also may have an advising roster of students (e.g., assistant director, associate director, director, associate dean) 

Student Success Impact Award: Full-time staff member who supports a student’s academic success and whose primary role is outside of the other award categories, such as academic coach, program advisor and/or resource advisor.

Each winner will receive a cash prize of $1,000 and a grant of $1,500 to support professional development activities. All awardees will be honored publicly at a reception event on March 26, 2025. Up to three awardees may be chosen in each award category.

To learn more about advising excellence, eligibility requirements and nomination guidelines, visit the award webpage. Submit a nomination here.