Nominations Open for the Dr. Norman A. White Award for Faculty Engaged Scholarship and Service
Faculty Senate is now accepting nominations for the award of the 2026 Dr. Norman A. White Award for Engaged Scholarship and Service through Friday, April 10, 2026.
This award honors and recognizes a faculty member who exemplifies community-engaged scholarship and service at Saint Louis University.
The Dr. Norman A. White Award for Engaged Scholarship and Service is an expression of our community’s deep gratitude for the life and work of Dr. Norm White. White embodied Saint Louis University’s commitment to collaborative academic-community partnerships that seek to “alleviate ignorance, poverty, injustice and hunger; extend compassionate care to the ill and needy; and maintain and improve the quality of life for all persons1,” through engagement, dialogue, reflection and action.
White came to SLU in 2004 as an Associate Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice. A scholar-activist, he dedicated himself to helping vulnerable children and youth in the St. Louis region flourish in the face of poverty, violence and oppression. He was a principal architect of SLU’s Overground Railroad to Literacy Project and Shut it Down: Closing the School to Prison Pipeline, projects whose aims are to promote racial equity, to promote access to high-quality education as a fundamental public good, and to dismantle systemic racism.
Nominations can be submitted by filling out the Google form.