Charge Up Your Chapter!
NSSLHA awarded its first Charge Up Your Chapter awards during the NSSLHA Luncheon and Awards ceremony, November 16, 2012, as a part of NSSLHA Day at the ASHA Convention. The Charge Up Your Chapter campaign awards prizes to local chapters that have members who are actively engaged in national NSSLHA and ASHA activities.
The NSSLHA Executive Council developed the categories of each award and established the criteria for award selection. Categories were based on national priorities as defined by the Council. Criteria for selection were based on data collected from posts, application submissions, or general activity by national members of NSSLHA over a defined period of time.
Thanks to a generous donation from ASHA, the 2nd runner-up in each category was awarded a $500 prize, the 1st runner-up was awarded a $750 prize, and the winning chapter was awarded a $1,000 prize.
The categories and criteria for the 2013 Charge Up Your Chapter campaign will be announced in June 2013. Local NSSLHA chapters can get "charged up" for the 2013 awards by encouraging local members to RAP (read, apply, and post) whenever they receive materials from NSSLHA or ASHA. When members "RAP," local chapters receive rewards.
A list of the 2012 categories and winning chapters follows:
Chapter Recognition Awards
Chapter with the most posts in the ASHA Community (based on ASHA Community posts from August 1, 2012–October 31, 2012)
- 2nd runner-up: Region 10, California State University Northridge
- 1st runner-up: Region 10, Idaho State University
- Winner: Region 3, Nova Southeastern University
Chapter with the most students attending the ASHA Convention (based on ASHA Convention registration data as of October 31, 2012)
- 2nd runner-up: Region 3, Georgia State University
- 1st runner-up: Region 1, Edinboro University of Pennsylvania
- Winner: Region 3, Florida State University
Chapter with the most student memberships in Special Interest Groups (based on data as of October 31, 2012)
- 2nd runner-up: Region 5, East Carolina University
- 1st runner-up: Region 9, Utah State University
- Winner: Region 3, Nova Southeastern University
Chapter with the most male students (based on data provided by the 2011 Higher Education System report)
- 2nd runner-up: Region 8, Harding University
- 1st runner-up: Region 9, Lamar University
- Winner: Region 1, Bloomsburg University
Chapter with the most submissions to ASHA and NSSLHA Awards, Scholarschips, and Grant Programs (based on data submitted by October 31, 2012)
- 2nd runner-up: Region 7, NSSLHA Chapter at Governors State University
- 1st runner-up: Region 2, Queens College, City University of New York
- Winner: Region 9, Utah State University
Chapter that traveled the farthest to get to the ASHA Convention (based on ASHA Convention registration data as of October 31, 2012)
- 2nd runner-up: Region 1, The University of Maine
- 1st runner-up: Region 9, The University of Alberta
- Winner: Region 10, The University of Oregon
Chapter with the most audiology students at the ASHA Convention (based on data provided by the 2011 Higher Education System)
- 2nd runner-up: Region 3, East Tennessee University
- 1st runner-up: Region 3, The University of Memphis
- Winner: Region 4, The University of Cincinnati
Chapter that has donated the most money to the ASHFoundation (based on data provided by the ASHFoundation as of October 31, 2012)
- 2nd runner-up: Region 10, California State University
- 1st runner-up: Region 3, Nova Southeastern University
- Winner: Region 4, The University of Cincinnati
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