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Hope all is well and your semester is off to a great start. Please see below the Call for Nominations for the Inaugural 2015 D&ITC BEST PRACTICE IN DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION AWARD. If your division or interest group is deserving of such an award, please submit by March 31, 2015.

THE DIVERSITY & INCLUSION AND PRACTICE THEME COMMITTEES OF THE

ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT

Proudly Announce the Inaugural, 2015

D&ITC BEST PRACTICE IN DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION AWARD¹

Dear friends and participants of the D&ITC and PTC,

This year, the Diversity & Inclusion Theme Committee and the Practice Theme Committee (D&ITC and PTC) of the Academy of Management are calling for nominations for the D&ITC Best Practice in Diversity and Inclusion Award. We are seeking nominations from those who have been active with the D&ITC, as well as associates and current and former D&ITC and PTC members, Professional Development Workshop organizers, and all members of the AOM who are involved in diversity and inclusion-related organizational practices, programs, teaching or research.

The D&ITC award aims to recognize exemplary diversity and inclusion best practices that AOM divisions, interest groups, or committees have proactively advanced in their groups, and that has achieved, or is currently achieving, notable impact on advancing diversity and inclusion in practice, teaching, or research. Nominees must specifically demonstrate how the practices, programs, teaching or research conducted by the division, interest group, or committee have made notable impact on advancing diversity and inclusion. The D&ITC Best Practice in Diversity and Inclusion Award is designed to promote AOM's strategic intent of having a diverse and inclusive academy. The award seeks to recognize and celebrate outstanding practices, programs, pedagogy or research that has had a major impact on advancing diversity and inclusion in the Academy of Management. 

The award includes a D&ITC Award Plaque and will be presented during the D&ITC Town Hall and Awards Ceremony at the AOM Annual Meeting in Vancouver in August 2015. If you wish to nominate a division, interest group, or committee, please forward this email to the Chair of the division, interest group, committee or research center that you wish to nominate, and cc the Chair of the Awards Committee of the Diversity & Inclusion Theme Committee, Dr. Christina SUE-CHAN, at csuechan@cityu.edu.hk, who will provide a nomination form and template and further details.

WHEN ARE THE DEADLINES FOR

1. Submission deadline is March 31, 2015

2. Judging panel will consist of 2 executive members each of D&ITC and PTC and 1 executive member of another division

3. Award winner will be announced in advance of the AOM meeting

¹Neither the D&ITC nor the PTC are eligible for the award.

Thanks for your consideration and have a great day,

Douglas