2025 NEW GENERATION AWARD
Submissions Are Requested!
Deadline: Friday, January 31, 2025
By awarding the New Generation Award at each annual conference, the UALE seeks to encourage emerging labor scholars, teachers, students, researchers, and multimedia producers. Labor Education and Labor Studies need a new cadre of 21st century innovators and leaders! This award is one way in which UALE seeks to support this development from within higher education, community-based organizations, and unions.
Submission formats can include:
- A paper based on academic labor studies research. Some examples include (but are not limited to), research for or about a worker organizing campaign (union or otherwise), historical research, economic, political, or sociological analysis.
- A descriptive treatment of a labor education curriculum or experience that offers analysis of labor education tools.
- A multimedia presentation (e.g. video, slideshow or photographs with explanatory text, artistic production, music, etc) drawn from a labor education experience, or intended as a labor education tool.
- Oral history (in written or multi-media format) about labor education or for use as a labor education tool.
Who is eligible to apply for this award?
- Any student enrolled in an academic program.
- Any community-based scholar, writer, or multimedia producer who is relatively new to the field of labor education (within the first five years of your career).
- Any union, academic, or community-based researcher who is relatively new to the field (within the first five years of your career).
What to submit:
- The “text” (broadly speaking) to be considered for the award.
- A brief biographical statement explaining your status as an “emerging” labor educator.
- If submitting a multimedia presentation, an accompanying explanation of what the media was produced for and how it is used.
All applications must follow these submission guidelines in order to be considered.
Selection process – 2025 UALE New Generation Award:
A selection committee appointed by the UALE Board will choose the four best submissions. The committee–composed of one representative from higher education, one representative from a union, and one representative from a community organization–will review all submissions and identify four finalists.
Finalists will be notified by March 31, 2023 and will be expected to attend the UALE Conference in Los Angeles, CA (April 6-9). Those chosen to present will receive free registration to the conference and some lodging subsidy. Travel will be paid by the author.
Each submission will be presented by its author(s). The selection committee will attend that session and choose the winner of the award based on the quality of the submission as well as the presentation during the session. The winner will be honored at the closing banquet of the conference.
Submissions due by Friday, January 31, 2025. Please email papers to ualeconference@gmail.com and include 2025 New Generation Award in the subject line.
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NOTE TO VETERAN LABOR EDUCATORS AND SCHOLARS: We need your help! Please identify and encourage newer colleagues to make submissions for the NEW GENERATION AWARD. Actively reach out to anyone you think is a good candidate for this award including students, activists, interns, researchers and unionists. Authors do not have to be UALE members nor do submissions have to be created specifically for this award.