Resilience Pathmaker Awards
QEP seeks to recognize students, faculty and staff who are advancing climate literacy and “climate response-ability” at App State. We define climate response-ability as “having the knowledge, skills and sense of agency to envision and implement positive climate action in our professions and our communities.”
In particular, Resilience Pathmaker Awards will be given to Mountaineers who are highly involved in one or more of the following kinds of activities:
- Engaging others in learning about climate change, climate solutions and/or climate resilience;
- Engaging others in developing skills to contribute to positive climate action(s);
- Engaging others in taking positive climate action(s);
- Creating new opportunities/programs for Mountaineers to grow their climate literacy and/or to take positive climate action;
- Reaching new audiences with climate literacy and response-ability efforts; AND/OR
- Taking a leadership role in climate literacy and response-ability efforts.
The QEP Awards Selection Committee, composed of campus climate literacy champions and sustainability leaders from across the university, will review nominees’ answers to the questions below and select awardees who are contributing most significantly to advancing climate literacy and climate response-ability at App State.
Nominate a Mountaineer!
QEP invites you to nominate students, faculty and staff for our inaugural Resilience Pathmaker Awards using this form. Self-nominations are welcomed (don’t be humble—nominate yosef!).
February 27, 2026 is the deadline for submitting nominations. Nominees will then be asked to submit materials (see below) supporting their nomination by March 31, 2026.
We will celebrate nominees and selected awardees at the QEP End of Year Awards & Celebration on May 1, 2026.
Nominee Materials
We will ask nominees to answer the questions below and provide images (optional) that could help us visualize their work.
1) Duration: How long have you been involved in activities that advance climate literacy and/or response-ability at App State?
2) Involvement: Please describe your involvement in activities that advance climate literacy and/or response-ability (see bulleted list above) at App State.
3) Leadership: Please describe any leadership you have taken in the activities that you described in Question 2. Note that this isn’t limited to leadership that comes with a title/position of some kind.
4) Impact: Please describe what you see as the impact(s) of your involvement in activities that advance climate literacy and/or response-ability at App State. How has your involvement made a difference?
