Let’s celebrate our 2025 NASSM Award Winners!

🎉Congratulations to our 2025 NASSM Award winners!🎉

Good day, NASSM!

We hope this message finds everyone in good spirits as the semester winds down and we prepare for some time away with friends and family this holiday season!

We are pleased to announce our 2025 NASSM Award winners today. Join us in celebrating these wonderful leaders from our field, and let’s use this message to kick off the holiday festivities!

2025 Earle F. Zeigler Lecture Award

Dr. Damon Andrew, Florida State University

2025 Joy DeSensi Diversity Award for Inclusive Excellence

Dr. Josh Pate, Lees McRae College

2025 Distinguished Research Award

Dr. Paul Pedersen, Indiana University - Bloomington

2025 Distinguished Educator Award

Dr. Jillian McNiff Villemaire, Flagler University

Due to a lack of nominations, we were unable to award anyone the Garth Paton Distinguished Service Award. You can learn more about this and all of the awards provided by NASSM on the Awards & Grants section of the NASSM website.

Additionally, we look forward to announcing more awards in the new year, with deadlines still approaching for the Student Research Competition (deadline 1/15), Janet B. Parks NASSM Research Grant (deadline 3/15), NASSM Doctoral Research Grant (deadline 3/15), and NASSM Doctoral Service Learning Grant (deadline 3/15). Information about these awards can be found on the above website.

Congratulations, once again, to our distinguished winners! We hope everyone has a tremendous day!