Awards & Scholarships
CAUT recognizes members for excellence and service through the following award categories.
Academic Librarians’ and Archivists’ Distinguished Service Award
The CAUT Academic Librarians’ and Archivists’ Distinguished Service Award recognizes outstanding contributions by academic librarians and archivists, other academic staff or groups to the advancement of the status and/or working conditions of academic librarians and archivists at Canadian universities and colleges.
Bernice Schrank Award
The Bernice Schrank Award recognizes outstanding contributions to the enforcement of academic staff workplace rights through grievance/arbitration.
Dedicated Service Award
The CAUT Dedicated Service Award recognizes individuals for exceptional service to their academic staff associations.
Donald C. Savage Award
The Donald C. Savage Award honours and recognizes outstanding achievements in the promotion of collective bargaining in Canadian universities and colleges.
Equity Award
The CAUT Equity Award recognizes post-secondary academic staff and groups who have demonstrated an outstanding commitment to challenging exclusionary behaviours and practices such as racism and homophobia and by so doing have made post-secondary education in Canada more inclusive.
Lee Lorch Award
The Lee Lorch Award recognizes academics whose work has meaningfully advanced the values of post-secondary education, strengthened academic labour rights, and fostered intellectual engagement among students, peers and the public.
Milner Memorial Award
The Milner Memorial Award recognizes a distinguished contribution to the cause of academic freedom.
Sarah Shorten Award
The Sarah Shorten Award recognizes outstanding achievements in the promotion of the advancement of women in Canadian universities and colleges.
