This award is intended to recognize exemplary practice in the use of service-learning in teacher education. Growing out of the work of AACTE and the National Service-Learning in Teacher Education Partnership (NSLTEP), the award recognizes excellence and identifies useful models of service-learning in teacher education. Review and evaluation of award submissions will be performed by a panel of experts.

Recognizes and honors one faculty member each year for contributing to the integration of community or public service into the curriculum and for efforts to institutionalize service-learning.

The annual Ernest A. Lynton Award for Faculty Professional Service and Academic Outreach recognizes a faculty member who connects his or her expertise and scholarship to community outreach. The award is presented at the American Association for Higher Education's (AAHE) National Conference.

The National Forum on Higher Education for the Public Good, along with the Association for Institutional Research, American Association for Higher Education, American Educational Research Association, Association for the Study of Higher Education, and American College Personnel Association, is sponsoring up to five awards for pre-tenured faculty, early career practitioners, and advanced graduate students in any discipline in U.S. higher education institutions who engage in research that explores higher education's role in serving the public good. The award of $3,000 will be made to individuals in order to support outstanding research and encourage publication.