Recognizing Employees

• Express your gratitude, one kind note at a time.
• Brighten a colleague’s day with an anonymous note of encouragement, support, or appreciation.
• Your anonymous note will be sent to the ColoradoSPH HR team, who will then forward it to your intended recipient.

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About the award

• Recipients can receive swag, administrative time off, gift card awards, and/or cash awards.

Eligibility

• Recognition is available to ColoradoSPH faculty, PRA, and staff members who…
• have demonstrated outstanding service, dedication, expertise, and/or excellence in their role,
• are at least 50% full-time equivalent (FTE),
• have been employed with the ColoradoSPH for at least 12 consecutive months.

How to nominate someone

• Supervisors, managers, and project leads can submit the Employee Recognition Nomination Form.

Review the full recognition policy and available reward options from this page of the HR Work Center. 

Every year, the Colorado School of Public Health honors outstanding faculty, staff, students, alumni, and community partners with awards recognizing their work in service of the school and public health. In addition, ColoradoSPH faculty are regularly recognized by University of Colorado leadership for their excellence in teaching.

About the awards

• Faculty, staff and student awardees receive an award and brunch at the annual Awards & Recognition Brunch in May.
• Alumni awardees are honored and receive their awards at the school's annual alumni awards event.
• Community partner awardees are honored and receive their awards at the Public Health in the Rockies annual conference with the Colorado Public Health Association. 

Eligibility

• Faculty, staff, PRAs, alumni and community partners are eligible.

How to nominate someone

• Nominations can be submitted each year.
• Colleagues and peers can submit nominations.
• The awards committee will send out an invite each year in March for nominations.

See a full listing of all prior award recipients.

In UCD Access, there is a notification tile for managers with reminders. Supervisors can recognize birthdays and service anniversaries

About the award

• Awardees will receive a $100 gift card and a signed certificate from the chancellor.

Eligibility

• This is for university staff only.

How to nominate someone

• Nominations can be submitted at any time.
• Supervisors, managers, colleagues, or peers can submit nominations.

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About the award

• Two awardees per campus will receive $250 and a plaque from the chancellor.

Eligibility

• This award is for University of Colorado staff only.

How to nominate someone

• Nominations need to be submitted before early February 12th each year.
• Supervisors, managers, colleagues, or peers can submit nominations.

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