Montana Student Volunteer Award
This award recognizes one exemplary college student volunteer per MT Engage affiliate campus, across Montana! These students serve the community and are recognized with a certificate signed by the Governor and their campus's CEO. Awards are conferred at a prominent campus event and a virtual recognition on April 23rd, 2026.
NOMINEE CRITERIA:
• Students must be enrolled at an MCNCE affiliate institution.
• Students must have volunteer experience within Montana and/or through their college.
• Students must be willing to receive the award at an agreed-upon campus event (virtual, sporting, or otherwise).
• The Governor’s Office of Community Service staff will review the selected nominees. If the nominee does not meet the review criteria, another will be selected.
SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS:
• Please determine a local process to determine the student whose volunteer service record best represents your institution and the spirit of this prestigious award. We recommend combining a conversation with collecting local nominations, if possible.
• Following your local conversation and decision about which student to honor, please submit one nomination per campus.
• This award honors your institution's top student volunteer this academic year; please share this with your campus's CEO.
• An MCNCE Advisory Committee member, administrator, staff, or faculty member must complete submissions.
• Submit the completed nomination form and a digital photo of the student by the deadline (below).
NOMINATION & AWARD PROCESS:
• Nominations must be submitted by Thursday, March 26, 2026, at 5 PM (MT).
• MCNCE co-presents this award with the Governor's Office of Community Service.
• Once the Governor’s staff has reviewed the nominations, they will notify MCNCE and mail the award certificate to the campus for the CEO's signature.
• MCNCE co-hosts (with the Governor's Office of Community Service) a recognition ceremony; students and nominators should plan to attend.
• Once the certificate is received locally, the nominator or campus representative will coordinate with the Student Volunteer Award recipient to determine an appropriate campus event for the award presentation; this can be part of year-end events, sporting events, etc.
• Once the nominator or campus representative determines a local presentation method for the event, if possible. We encourage co-presenting with a Campus Compact Board or CEO Council and Advisory Committee member. The presenter can be the nominator, another campus representative, campus CEO, and/or other staff or faculty member(s).
• The award ceremony will be held via Zoom in April 17, 2025 from 3:00-4:00 PM. Nominators and students awardees should plan to attend.