Fred Turner Award for Outstanding Service to NASPA

Supporting the Profession

Award Type: national

This award, named for a past Chair of the NASPA Board of Directors (1958-1959) and former Chief Student Affairs Officer at the University of Illinois, honors a NASPA member who has served in leadership roles at the state, regional, national, or international levels of NASPA, and who has had, at minimum, ten continuous years of NASPA membership. The Fred Turner Award is NASPA’s equivalent of a lifetime achievement award; each recipient has brought honor and dignity to the student affairs profession, and to NASPA as an association, for a sustained period of time.

Nominations have closed for the 2024 Fred Turner Award for Outstanding Service to NASPA. The application for 2025 will open in August of 2024.

2024 Current Recipient

2024 | Lori White

President
DePauw University

Award Criteria

Required

Volunteer service to the association via leadership roles at the state, regional, national, or international levels
Minimum of ten continuous years of NASPA membership
Active individual NASPA membership

Preferred

Progression from entry-level to senior-level leadership roles within NASPA’s volunteer ranks
Involvement in multiple branches (e.g., Regions, Knowledge Communities, Divisions and Groups, etc.) of the association
Volunteer service that has had a significant impact on NASPA as an association

Past Recipients

2023 | Juan Guardia

Assistant Vice President and Dean of Students
University of Cincinnati-Main Campus

2022 | Shannon Ellis

Fred Turner Award for Outstanding Service to NASPA

Vice President for Student Affairs
University of Nevada - Reno

2021 | Helen Grace Ryan

2021 | Fred Turner Award for Outstanding Service to NASPA

Vice President for Student Affairs
Bellarmine University

2020 | Patricia A. Whitely

2020 Fred Turner Award for Outstanding Service to NASPA

Vice President for Student Affairs
University of Miami

2019 | Henry Gee

Vice President For Student Services
Rio Hondo College

2019 | Alex Gonzalez (in memoriam)

University Registrar
University of New Mexico

2018 | Frank Lamas

Vice President of Student Affairs and Enrollment Management
Freso State

2017 | Lori Ideta

Interim Vice Chancellor for Students
University of Hawai'i at Manoa

2016 | Barb Snyder

Vice President for Student Affairs
University of Utah

2015 | Lori Reesor

Vice President For Student Affairs
University of North Dakota

2014 | Susan Batchelor Adams
2013 | Elizabeth Griego
2012 | Kari Ellingson
2011 | Janet E. Walbert
2009 | Renee Barnett Terry
2008 | Theresea A. Powell
2007 | Karen L. Pennington
2006 | Cheryl Callahan
2005 | Marjorie Van Vooren
2004 | Shannon E. Ellis
2003 | Penelope Wilis
2002 | Doris M. Ching
2002 | Laurence N. Smith
2001 | Kurt Keppler
2000 | David A. Ambler
2000 | Joan Claar

1999 | William L. "Bud" Thomas
1998 | James E. Scott
1997 | John L. Blackburn
1996 | Elizabeth Nuss
1995 | Frederick Preston
1994 | George W. Young
1993 | Sue D. Weitz
1992 | Thomas Goodale
1991 | Larry H. Ebbers
1990 | Wayne Carlisle
1989 | Judith M. Chambers
1988 | Dorothy J. Keller
1987 | Peggy Elder
1986 | John J. Koldus
1985 | E.T. Buchanan III
1985 | Mickell O'Donnell

1984 | Donald V. Adams
1983 | Arthur Sandeen
1983 | Mildred K. Carlson
1982 | Alice R. Manicur
1981 | Channing M. Briggs
1980 | James R. Appleton
1980 | James J. Rhatigan
1979 | Carl W. Knox
1978 | Preston Parr
1977 | Chester E. Peters
1976 | Earle W. Clifford
1975 | Jack C. Clevenger
1975 | Richard Hulet
1974 | Peter Armacost
1972 | John E. Hocutt
1972 | Donald DuShane
1972 | O.D. Roberts