Awards

Jean Pierce "Chocolate Rose" Award

Recognizes the efforts of MWERA members who excel in bringing students as new members to the MWERA Annual Meeting. This award recognizes a tradition started by Dr. Jean Pierce during her service as MWERA Executive Director. Recipients are those who have the largest number of students who indicated with their registration that the recipient encouraged them to join and/or attend the Annual Meeting.

Award recipients:
Coming soon!

Sharon McNeely "Beyond the Call" Award

Recognizes outstanding service and leadership to MWERA, well above and "beyond the call" of expectations of membership or any office or position held. This award is named in honor of Dr. Sharon McNeely, for her many years of outstanding service provided to MWERA.

Award recipients:
2021 – David Walker
2021 – Thomas Smith
2019 – Dustin Derby
2019 – Dan Quinn
2019 – Krontayia Moss
2018 – not given
2017 – Spencer Pasero
2017 – Ting Li
2017 – Rashmi Sharma
2016 – Tracey Stuckey-Mickell
2016 – Eric Mansfield
2015 – Aimin Wang
2015 – Francis Godwyll
2014 – Cynthia Campbell
2013 – Sharon McNeely

Omnibus Award

Recognizes significant and sustained contributions across multiple areas of MWERA membership, as evidenced by at least five recent years participating in MWERA in each of the following ways: (a) membership, (b) annual meeting attendance, (c) scholarly paper presentations, (d) service as reviewer, session chair, discussant, or on MWERA committees, and (e) elected or appointed offices.

Award recipients:
2021 – Rashmi Sharma
2021 – John Gillham
2019 – Kelly D. Bradley
2018 – Winston Vaughan
2018 – Nicole V. Williams
2017 – Gary Daytner
2017 – Joseph Schroer
2015 – Tom Smith
2015 – David Walker
2015 – Dustin Derby
2015 – Spencer Pasero
2015 – Ting Li
2015 – Tracey Stuckey-Mickell
2015 – Eric Mansfield
2015 – Aimin Wang
2015 – Francis Godwyll
2015 – Cynthia Campbell
2015 – Sharon McNeely
2015 – Katrina Daytner
2015 – Kate Shirley Akers
2015 – Delane Bender-Slack
2015 – Teresa Young
2015 – Jonnie-Jill Phipps
2015 – Brandelyn Tosolt
2015 – Angeline Stuckey
2015 – Penny Soboleski
2015 – Greg Montalvo
2015 – Gordon Brooks
2015 – T. Mark Beasley
2015 – Janet Holt
2015 – Beverly Dretzke
2015 – Tom Cody
2015 – Sharon Valente
2015 – Sharon Stevens

Aimin Wang and Francis Godwyll Professional Recruitment Award

Recognizes the efforts of MWERA members who bring new professional members to the MWERA Annual Meeting. This award recognizes the continuous recruitment and mentorship efforts of both Aimin Wang and Francis Godwyll for which they earned the "Chocolate Rose Award" many consecutive years. Recipients are those who have the largest number of professionals who indicated with their registration that the recipient encouraged them to join and/or attend the Annual Meeting.

Award recipients:
2021 – Laney Bender-Slack
2021 – Nicole Williams
2021 – Rosaire Ifedi
2021 – Erric Dimmitt
2021 – Mary Bair
2019 – John Gillham
2019 – Mary Bair
2018 – Laney Bender-Slack
2018 – Nicole Williams
2018 – Patricia Farrenkopf
2018 – John Gillham

Isadore Newman Dissertation Award

Named for past MWERA president, mentor, and contributor, Isadore Newman, this award is intended to encourage and recognize outstanding dissertation research appropriate to the field.

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Award recipients:
2022 - Beth S. Yoder, University of Findlay
2022 - Sierra Ryan, University of Illinois at Chicago
2021 - Kristie Marie Fetty, University of Findlay
2021 - Jody C. Googins, Xavier University

 

  

The Newman family with the 2021 award recipients

   

MWERA Distinguished Paper Award

The Consortium of State and Regional Educational Research Associations (SRERA) promotes quality research through support of state and regional organizations like the Midwestern Educational Research Association (MWERA). It provides a national forum at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) to present outstanding research from the state and regional associations. 

Beginning with the 2014 MWERA annual meeting, the editors of MWER, along with MWERA’s Association Council, have selected a Distinguished Paper to send to AERA. So far, honored papers have been:

Eligible papers are selected from the pool of complete papers uploaded to the MWERA conference website by the last day of the conference. From this pool, one overall Distinguished Paper is selected to represent MWERA at AERA, and is supported by a $150 stipend for registration costs. The paper chosen does not have to go through the AERA review process. This paper will also be eligible for publication in MWER.

In order for MWER editors to access work to be considered for the Distinguished Paper, presenters at the annual MWERA conference must upload a final and complete paper to the association’s https://convention2.allacademic.com/one/mwera/mwera24/ by the last day of the MWERA conference.. In addition, the author or lead author must be able to present the paper at the AERA conference in order to be eligible for this award.  The Distinguished Paper awardee will be notified by mid-January, following the fall conference, of the decision.

Publication Opportunities

MWER is interested in all conference papers with good potential for publication. MWER editors will review all complete papers uploaded to the MWERA online conference management system (proposals and incomplete papers are not eligible) and will contract authors regarding interest in the peer-review process and potential publication in MWER. Authors may also submit their manuscripts to MWER through the regular submission process at any time.

If you have any questions about either process, please contact the MWER Editors at MWER1922@gmail.com.
You can find more information about MWERA’s Annual Meeting here.