Walker E. Solomon Award

Walker E. Solomon Award

Description: Given in three categories: Individual, Local Association/School/Community

Individual Category

Eligibility Criteria: Nominee must have met the following:

Worked for the eradication of racial inequities in the education profession, school, and community

Worked to bring about improved intergroup relations and understanding in the school and community

Honored by the school and community for these activities

Judging Criteria:

Improving Institutions - School Involvement:

Initiating and promoting programs in the school for better relationships (between students-teachers, teacher-parents, administrators-teachers, administrator-teacher-student, and/or racial groups)

Improved environment for cooperation in solving community problems and/or enhancing equal opportunities in the community

Improving Institutions - Community Involvement:

Initiating and promoting programs in the community for better understanding in relationships between school, community, and racial groups

Improving environment of cooperation in solving community problems and/or enhancing equal opportunities in the community

Improving Interpersonal Relationships - School Involvement:

Involvement in the school to help staff, students, and parents to have good self-concepts, positive attitudes, better understanding of themselves and others, and achieve personal worth

Improving Interpersonal Relationships - Community Involvement:

Involvement in the community to create good self-concepts, positive attitudes, and better understanding of themselves and others as they relate to daily lives in the community

Local Association, School, Community Category

Eligibility: The group must show it has improved its human and civil rights program as follows:

Reviewing a human and civil rights program that has been inoperative in the past

Expanding an existing human and civil rights program

Establishing an effective human and civil rights program in a community where one was previously nonexistent

Accomplishments Required: The human and civil rights program must have accomplished two or more of the following:

Promoted the inclusion of interpersonal skills training for teachers in in-service and pre-service programs

Established programs that provide for community involvement and create a feeling of investment and responsibility for the operation of the community's schools

Educated the community concerning interpersonal relationships

General Criteria

• Nominees may be (a) UEP member; (b) a local association; or (c) a school or community working to improve human and civil rights
• Individual nominees must be UEP members
• Up to two awards may be given in the individual category
• Only persons or organizations whose human and civil rights activities have had school or community-wide impact are eligible
• Nomination must be accompanied by appropriate supporting documentation related to criteria
• Appropriate documentation should include: legible photocopies of newspaper clippings, newsletters, programs, certificates, letters, citations, etc.
• Photographs of trophies and/or plaques may be used as evidence
• All materials must be arranged in orderly and sequential manner

Geographic Scope: South Carolina

Contact: The South Carolina Education Association, 2999 Sunset Blvd., Suite 200, West Columbia, SC 29169, 803.772.6553