Selection: Selection will be made during the No Frills Conference. 
Award:  The regional winner will receive a traveling plaque that may be displayed at the winning school for one year and a certificate that the school will be allowed to keep.
 Criteria for Selection:
    Campus Level (45%)

  • Structure and organization of residence hall government
  • Goals and programs accomplished (emphasis on new programs and organizational growth)
  • Perceived student benefits from residence hall government
  • Community Service
  • Addressing challenging issues
  • Other residence hall groups
  • Communication of state, regional, and national information to residence hall government, staff, and administration.
  • Budget
    Regional Level (25%)
  • Representation at regional conferences
  • Communication with regional member schools
  • Involvement in regional projects
  • Bids for national awards
  • Number of regional OTM winners
  • Communication with regional officers
  • Representation at regional business meetings
  • State involvement
  • Hosting a regional officer or conference
    National Level (25%)
  • NIC requests
  • NRHH chapter
  • Representation at national conference
  • Representation at national business meeting
  • Number of national OTM winners
  • NIC report
  • Bids for national awards (POY, SALT, etc.)
  • Communication with member schools
  • Communication with national officers
  • Payment of dues
  • Intangibles:  spirit and involvement of students
  • Hosting national office/officer/conference
    Miscellaneous (5%)
  • Letters of support
  • Adherence to format
  • Appearance/neatness
  • Consciousness

Building RHA Award

Purpose: This award is designed to honor the RHA which displays tremendous effort and improvement from the previous academic year to the current.
Eligibility: Only year-specific information sill be considered; in other words, bid content should reflect accomplishments from SAACURH No Frills conference to SAACURH No Frills conference.
Pages:  Bids must be no longer than sixteen (16) pages in length (190 -12 point type). A page is defined as a side with print; this includes appendices, letters of recommendations, text, etc.  Covers and title pages are not included in this page count.  All bids shall contain page numbers.  All bids must be on white, double-sided, three hole punched paper that is either stapled or otherwise connected in such a way that makes recycling easy.  No plastic binders, book bindings, etc. are allowed.
 Selection: Recipients will be selected during the No Frills Conference by the SAACURH SEC.
 Award:  Regional winners will receive certificates during the regional award ceremony at the NACURH conference.
 Suggested Criteria:
  1. Communication: national, regional, and campus
  2. Challenging Issues: budget, Student Government, staff interaction
  3. Conference Attendance:  awards, numbers, program presentations on campus and from conference resources, conference awards
  4. Recognition: from RHA, to leaders
  5. OTMS: submissions, winners (regional & national)
  6. Programming: social, educational, community service
  7. Goals & Objectives
  8. NRHH interaction (if applicable): OTMs, programming, strengthening ties
  9. Growth in the past year: organizational developments, numbers of involved members, involvement, positive trends
  10. Support letters: advisor, RHA director/president, NRHH president (if applicable)
  11. Use of NIC services

NRHH Outstanding Chapter of the Year

 Purpose:  This award is designed to honor the NRHH Chapter that displays to their membership and the nation that NACURH recognized the effect of its leaders and their contributions to their residence hall system.  Year specific information will be considered.  Bid content should reflect accomplishments from NACURH conference to NACURH conference.
 Eligibility: This award will be given yearly at the discretion of the NRHH Regional Associate Director and the SAACURH Executive Committee at the annual No Frills Conference.
 Pages:      The written bid shall not exceed thirty (30) pages in length (10-12 point type).  A page is defined as one side of  print.  The title page is not included in the count, but dividers are.  All bids shall contain page numbers.  The page of the body of the bid must be copied back to back.  Appendices are limited to 20 pages. All bids must be on white, double-sided, three hole punched paper that is either stapled or otherwise connected in such a way that makes recycling easy.  No plastic binders, book bindings, etc. are allowed.
Selection: The Chapter of the Year award will be selected by the NRHH Chapter representatives present at the annual No Frills Conference.  No member from a bidding school will be present during the selection process.  In order to be eligible for this award the Chapter must be in good standing with the NRHH National Office. 
Award:   The winning school shall receive a plaque.
Suggested Criteria:
  1. Communication on three levels:  local, regional and national.
  2. Support to the local, regional and national levels.
  3. Participation in reinforcing the purpose of NRHH and NACURH.
  4. Goals and objectives of the chapter and how these were implemented.
  5. Letters of Support from the Chapter President, Chapter Advisor, RHA President, Director of Housing and any other which are appropriate.

NRHH Building Block Chapter of the Year

Purpose:  The NRHH Building Block Chapter of the Year Award is given to the chapter which shows outstanding
    growth and development during the year of nomination.
Eligibility:   Any NRHH affiliated chapter may submit a bid for this award.  The award shall have an eligibility period
from the No-Frills conference to No-Frills conference.  The bid must be in writing to the Regional Director by the date that he or she specifies.  The number of copies will be determined by the number of NRHH chapters that will be in attendance at the No-Frills conference.
 Pages:    The bid shall not exceed thirty (30) pages in length (10-12 point type).  A page is defined as a side with print; this includes appendices, letters of recommendation, text, etc.  The title page shall not be included in the thirty (30) pages, but dividers shall be included in the page count.  The title page shall contain the chapter, school and region name.  All bids shall contain page numbers. All bids must be on white, double-sided, three hole punched paper that is either stapled or otherwise connected in such a way that makes recycling easy.  No plastic binders, book bindings, etc. are allowed.
 Selection: The Chapter of the Year award will be selected by the NRHH Chapter representatives present at the annual No Frills Conference.  No member from a bidding school will be present during the selection process.  In order to be eligible for this award the Chapter must be in good standing with the NRHH National Office. 
Award:   The winning school shall receive a plaque.
 Suggested Criteria:
  1. Goals and objectives, and how there were met.
  2. Membership selection process.
  3. Participation in reinforcing the purpose of NRHH.
  4. Programming and leadership experience.
  5. Regional and National involvement.
  6. Growth of the chapter over the year.
  7. Creation of new programming and leadership initiatives.
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