Boe Award Submission

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• What is the Boe Award?
  • This award honors the late Dr. Dennis Boe, Director of Honors at East Central Oklahoma State University. The untimely death of Dr. Boe robbed the NCHC and GPHC of a long-time leader, scholar, musician, poet, and good friend. The Great Plains Honors Council sponsors the Dennis Boe Award to showcase and reward outstanding scholarly work by the honors programs students of its member institutions.
• Guidelines
  • A maximum of three Boe Award may be awarded for each of two categories
    1. lower-division students who have fewer than 60 hours of college/university credit (at the deadline of submissions), and
    2. upper-division students who have earned 60 hours or more of college/university credit
  • Submissions for the Boe Award must be approved by each institution's honors director and indicate the director's advocacy of the excellence of the work
  • Must represent the work of a single honors students performed in the previous and/or present academic year
  • Each institution may submit a maximum of two Boe Award nominees
  • Must come from dues-paying institutions
  • Must be submitted using the Boe Award Submission Form 
• Dates and Deadlines
  • The deadline for submission is February 2, 2024, by 5pm.
  • Extensions cannot be granted nor can changes be made to submissions by the host institution or any other individual once received.
  • Conference registration must be completed by the Early Bird deadline of February 15, 2024, in order for a submission to be considered.
  • Students and honors directors will be notified if they are presenting at the conference by Friday, March 8, 2024.
  • Submissions that are not selected for the final competition will be automatically included in the conference program
• Essay Criteria
  • Essays submitted in consideration for the Boe Award must:
    • Be fewer than 7,000 words (references must be used but are not included in the word count restriction).
    • Use the citation system of the academic field they represent and be formatted in a readable fashion.
    • Not indicate the identity of either the writer or the university or the essay will be disqualified.
    • Be submitted in PDF, Word, or Rich Text File format.
• Essay Judging
  • Essays will be assigned to professors in the category that best matches their expertise.
  • Judges reserve the right to not award prizes if essays do not meet criteria standards.
  • Judges may elect not to award the maximum number of awards.
• Elimination
  • Elimination can be made at the discretion of the President-Elect of GPHC, Ebonie Hill, due to non-conformance to the instructions. The President-Elect will notify the submitting honors director, the Executive Secretary Treasurer, and the GPHC President.
  • Students are to register for, attend, and present their essays at the annual conference as directed in order to receive the award.
  • Submissions that do not comply with the guidelines listed here will be eliminated from the competition.

To submit an entry for the Boe Award please follow the link below!

GPHC Boe Award Submission Form