Outstanding HRD Academic Program Award

The Outstanding HRD Academic Program Award is presented to an outstanding human resource development academic program based on a continuous record of excellence.

Award Criteria

• Number of full-time faculty who identify themselves as HRD faculty
• Progressive/innovative curriculum and courses
• Publications by faculty and graduate students
• Placement of graduates in academic, professional, or business leadership roles
• Short history of the program including challenges in its establishment and how those challenges were met
• Innovative changes in the past two or three years and their impact
• Involvement of faculty in community service to businesses and community organizations (independent of individual faculty consulting activities)

Current Status of the Award

This award became inactive with the formation of the AHRD Program Excellence Network (PEN) in 2007. One of the PEN's objectives is to develop a new way of recognizing academic excellence.

Award Winners

2006 Not Awarded

2005 University of Georgia

2004 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

2003 George Washington University

2002 Not Awarded

2001 Not Awarded

2000 Not Awarded

1999 Not Awarded

1998 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

1997 Georgia State University

1996 Not Awarded

1995 University of Twente, The Netherlands

1994 University of Minnesota

1993 George Washington University

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