The OUAA hosts an Alumni Awards Banquet annually, bringing together hundreds of OU graduates to honor achievements in business, community service, volunteerism and more. This year, the event will take place on Friday, October 26, 2012 in the Oakland Center Banquet Rooms.
Nominations for the 2012 Alumni Awards Banquet are currently being accepted through Friday, June 8, 2012 in the following categories:
- Distinguished Alumni Service Award – OU’s highest honor, which recognizes peerless volunteer leadership in service to OU or its alumni association.
- Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award – recognizes outstanding professional achievement and/or contributions to the community.
- Odyssey Award – recognizes alumni who seek to exemplify OU’s motto, “to seek virtue and knowledge.”
- Spirit Award – recognizes exemplary volunteer service to the university.
- Alumni Community Service Award – recognizes distinctive service of a humanitarian nature or citizenship through community, public or OU service activities.
- Outstanding Young Alumni Award – recognizes alumni who have demonstrated the worth of their education through their post-college achievements and who have graduated within the last 10 years.
- Honorary Alumni Award – recognizes individuals who have not graduated from OU but who have given outstanding service to the university.
Click here for a nomination form. For more information on the Alumni Awards Banquet, contact Erin Sudrovech, Associate Director of Alumni Engagement – Campus Programs, at 248-364-6136 or sudrovec@oakland.edu.The deadline for nominations is Friday, June 8, 2012.
For a list of past recipients, click here.