Will your program be the next CPED program of the year? Learn the secrets of successful POY applications from recent winners and look ahead to POY 2022.  

Join POY Co-Leads Kyle Ingle (University of Louisville) and Harriette Rasmussen (Drexel University) with POY award winners from the last three years: Deanna Hill of Drexel University (2019), Gage Jeter of the University of Florida (2020), and Jess Weiler, representing our most recent winner, Western Carolina University, 2021 POY.  In this interactive workshop we will unpack the POY application process, learning how each of these POYs engaged their staff, interpreted the application form and rubric, and choices they made that –  they believe – led to their success.  We will consider the various ways in which our member institutions have understood the term “innovation” – which orients the award, expanding perhaps on that definition as we look to POY 2022.  We will also address the most common challenge of POY applications, that of concrete evidence that backs up your claims to the committee.

We ask that participants come to this two-hour workshop with some initial ideas in mind that might orient an application; we will work in small groups to workshop your ideas, running a tuning protocol so that you will leave the session with collegial feedback on a future application. If you are not yet to that stage, join us anyway and participate in our conversation. You might discover that you are closer than you think!