Colleges and Universities submit their leading edge initiatives to UEDA where the members consider and vote on the awards. The process works as follows. Colleges and universities nominate their initiatives for a UEDA Award for Excellence over the Web. The UEDA Awards Team selects three to five finalists in each category based on award criteria. The finalists make presentations to the UEDA membership at the annual meeting. UEDA members vote on the final awards.

2. Bill Michalerya
President
University Economic Development Association

4. Chris Mustain
Vice President
Council on Competitiveness

6. Ed Morrison
Awards of Excellence Committee Chair
University Economic Development Association

8. H. Phillip Paradice, Jr.
Regional Director
Economic Development Administration

10. COMMUNITY CONNECTED CAMPUS
SkySong – ASU Scottsdale Innovation Center
Arizona State University
East Stroudsburg University Innovation Center
East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania
Kemper Military School Redevelopment Project: Repurposing
historic structures, maintaining community values
University of Missouri University Center for Innovation and
Entrepreneurship (UCIE)

11. Community Connected Campus
Kemper Military School Redevelopment
Project: Repurposing historic
structures, maintaining community
values
University of Missouri University Center
for Innovation and Entrepreneurship

14. RESEARCH AND ANALYSIS
Indiana Community Asset Inventory and Rankings
(Part of Indiana’s Statewide Initiative T21)
Ball State University Center for Business & Economic Research
Sustainable Economies Program
Iowa State University, CIRAS
Indiana Toll Road Economic Development Corridor Study
Ball State University

15. Research and Analysis
Sustainable Economies Program
Iowa State University, CIRAS

18. LEADERSHIP AND COLLABORATION
Indiana University Kokomo Regional Transformation Initiative
Indiana University – Kokomo
Economic Development Leadership Council
University of Georgia
Kansas Opportunity Innovation Network (KOIN)
Kansas State University / Advanced Manufacturing Institute

19. Leadership and Collaboration
Kansas Opportunity Innovation
Network (KOIN)
Kansas State University / Advanced
Manufacturing Institute

22. INNOVATION & ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Linking Innovation, Industry and Commercialization (LIINC)
West Virginia University
PASSHE First Annual Student Business Plan Competition
Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education
Small Enterprise Economic Development (SEED)
NYS Small Business Development Center

23. Innovation & Entrepreneurship
Linking Innovation, Industry and
Commercialization (LIINC)
West Virginia University

26. TALENT DEVELOPMENT
Backpacks to Briefcases (B2B)
NC State University
Developing Analytics & Operations Research Practitioners
Lehigh University – Enterprise Systems Center and Industrial &
Systems Engineering Department
Lemonade Day Alaska
University of Alaska Center for Economic Development

27. Talent Development
Developing Analytics & Operations
Research Practitioners
Lehigh University – Enterprise Systems
Center and Industrial & Systems
Engineering Department

30. JUDGES’ AWARD

31. Judges’ Award
Kansas Opportunity Innovation
Network (KOIN)
Kansas State University / Advanced
Manufacturing Institute