Higher Education Network Awards Program
The American College of Healthcare Executives has implemented an awards
program to recognize programs participating in the ACHE Higher Education Network who
have advanced students to Member or Fellow status and also held innovative activities
to develop leadership skills and to promote the benefits of membership in ACHE.
View Past Winners
Here's the program breakdown:
- A total of four awards will be presented annually. The awards will be
distributed as indicated below:
- An award will be presented to the undergraduate program with
the greatest number of students who graduated during the
designated time period and are Members or Fellows at the end of the designated
time period.
- An award will be presented to the undergraduate program with
the greatest percentage of students who graduated during the
designated time period and are Members or Fellows at the end of the designated
time period.
- An award will be presented to the graduate program with the
greatest number of students who graduated during the
designated time period and are Members or Fellows at the end of the designated
time period.
- An award will be presented to the graduate program with the
greatest percentage of students who graduated during the
designated time period and are Members or Fellows at the end of the designated
time period.
- All program directors will be informed annually about ACHE’s Higher
Education Network Awards program and will be provided with the guidelines for
participation.
- Program directors will be asked to provide ACHE with the names of
students who have graduated over the designated period.
- The program will be expected to organize a solicitation program to
encourage graduating students to apply for Member or Fellow status, as appropriate.
- Using the list of names received from each of the programs, ACHE will
determine the number of graduates who have entered into both Member and Fellow status
by the end of the designated time period.
- Using the responses to the application questions about the program’s
activities during the academic year, ACHE will evaluate the program’s efforts to
promote membership and advancement and leadership development skills.
- Each award-winning program will receive a plaque.
- The plaques will be presented to representatives from the winning
programs by ACHE’s Chairman during the Congress on Healthcare Leadership. One faculty
representative from each award-winning program will receive an expense-paid trip and
tuition waiver for Congress.
- Only one award may be presented to a graduate or undergraduate
program in a given year.
- The awards for greatest number will be determined first, effectively
removing those particular graduate and undergraduate programs from contention for the
award based upon greatest percentage.
- In the unlikely event of a tie, information about the program’s
activities during the academic year will be used to determine the award winner.
- Only programs with a minimum of ten members of the graduating class
who are Member or Fellow status at the end of the designated time period will be
eligible for the award.
- ACHE’s Chairman annually will send a letter of appreciation to all
participating program directors. The letter will thank these individuals for their
continued support, congratulate them for their recruitment efforts over the past year
and encourage them to put forth the same energy and effort over the next year.
ACHE Student Chapter Awards Program [1994 – 2006]
The ACHE Student Chapter Awards Program was established in 1994 to recognize those graduate and undergraduate programs with active student chapters whose programs demonstrated a commitment to promoting advancement in ACHE. In 2006, the program was revised and later renamed in 2008 to the ACHE Higher Education Network Award Program.
View Past Student Chapter Award Winners