The Drury Awards recognizes students, faculty, and staff who exceed expectations and prove to be exemplary leaders, scholars and citizens.
Date: Wednesday, April 30, 2025
Time: 3 p.m.
Location: Findlay Student Center Ballroom
The list below does not include all the awards that will be presented that day. Please check with department heads, or other staff/faculty members with questions about other awards not listed here.
Below you will find documentation for the selection process, descriptions of each award, and nomination forms for the Student Organization Awards and the Greek Excellence Awards.
The Student Organization Awards were created to provide an opportunity to recognize the achievements and excellence of the outstanding leaders and supporters of all student organizations.
View all information about the awards process, selection and application/nomination requirements here.
This award is presented to an organization that has made a significant effort to further its purpose through its contribution to Drury University. This award recognizes the student organization that has demonstrated consistent flexibility, initiative, creativity, and perseverance through their activities and programs. Furthermore, the organization embodies the Drury spirit through its commitment to leadership development, collaboration among groups, and programmatic efforts to enhance the quality of campus life. The Student Organization of the Year is considered a role model for other organizations on our campus.
This award is presented to an organization that is newer, recently revived, or has shown an extensive amount of growth within the past year. This award recognizes the organization that has shown a positive attitude, hard work, passion, and strength in the light of challenges and obstacles. Furthermore, the improvements can be seen through membership numbers, events taken place on campus, public relations seen across campus, new innovative ideas, and more. The Most Improved Organization of the Year is considered our up-and-coming organization of the next school year.
This award is presented to an organization that has been created in the 2023-2024 academic year. The award recognizes students who have taken the time to bring a new organization to campus to continue to diversify the organizations that students can take part in during their time at Drury University. Furthermore, the organization showcases a new aspect of representing the passions of our students through activities, events, meetings, and more, giving our students a new space to showcase their passions. The New Organization of the Year is considered to have been successful in their first year of working to make an impact on Drury’s campus.
The award recognizes the student organization which displayed the most successful program/event/initiative overall during the past year. The organization will be selected based on the overall uniqueness of the program, as well as the organization’s technique, creativity, marketing, and implementation strategies.
This award is presented to a student who exhibits exemplary leadership skills throughout the campus community. The student must be a junior, senior, or super senior. The criteria for selection include: quality of leadership, mutual respect among peers, dedication to the improvement of campus life, and the ability to promote leadership development at Drury.
A great advisor can truly take a student organization to the next level. The Student Organization Advisor of the Year Award is awarded to a faculty, staff, or graduate advisor of a student organization who has had a positive impact on their associated student organization and demonstrates a strong ability to cultivate learning and growth in student leaders.
The Greek Excellence Awards were founded by the Drury University chapter of the Gamma Sigma Alpha National Greek Academic Honor Society in 2006 to provide an opportunity to recognize the achievements and excellence of the outstanding leaders and supporters of the Greek community.
View all information about the awards process, selection and application/nomination requirements here.
This award recognizes members of the Greek community who have shown participation, dedication, and a genuine commitment to the improvement of the Drury Greek Life community. Award winners should be involved in their organization and the community as a whole and actively participate in initiatives, programs, and opportunities to make the community better. These individuals also work to inspire and motivate those around them to better live the values of fraternities and sororities, in part through role modeling the values themselves. One Sorority Member and one Fraternity Member will be awarded.
Nominees of this award have consistently exhibited exceptional service and leadership in their contributions to at least one Greek organization.
The Chapter of the Year application process is an opportunity to recognize a chapter’s overall success in the past year. Awards will be determined based on the following categories: lifelong connections and membership, academic excellence, campus engagement, recruitment and membership retention, and community service and philanthropy. Individual awards will be given for each of the 5 categories with the Chapter of the Year being awards to the fraternity and sorority with the cumulative highest scores. These 5 topics represent some of the most basic principles of Greek Life, and judges want to hear specifically what your chapter is doing to uphold these ideals in your everyday chapter operations.
The New Student of the Year award recognizes a student who has truly excelled in their first academic year at Drury. This student will have demonstrated a dedication to academic achievement, as well as meaningful engagement in student life outside the classroom. Candidates for this award should be in their first year at Drury as a first year student or new transfer student.
Please complete the nomination form below to nominate a student for the Drury Difference Maker or New Student of the Year award.
The Drury Difference Maker award recognizes a student who exemplifies the true spirit of Drury. These candidates support the traditions and ideals of the University through their engagement on campus, and demonstrates a dedication to improving the overall student experience at Drury. Qualified candidates demonstrate leadership in the classroom as well as through campus engagement.
Nomination FormThis award recognizes a student who has demonstrated leadership and engagement across the campus community while promoting global perspectives and intercultural exchange. This student will have excelled in academic achievement as well as involvement outside the classroom, focused on promoting topics related to globalism, international equity and inclusion, and/or cross-cultural exchange between communities both internal and external to the university.
This award is presented to a student has conspicuously thrived during a study-abroad experience, demonstrating enthusiasm for global learning, engagement, and embracing a new culture. This award may be presented to a Drury student after completing a study abroad experience, or to a student visiting Drury from an overseas university. This student will have achieved in the academic portion of their study abroad experience, as well as reflect profound personal development relating to others from different cultures.
* Students cannot receive more than two (2) awards from the Breech, Strube and Program awards.
