Outstanding Alumni Award categories
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander in Marine Science
- Courses
- Future Students
- Current Students
- Research and Teaching
- Partners and Community
- About JCU
- Reputation and Experience
- Celebrating 50 Years
- Academy
- Anthropological Laboratory for Tropical Audiovisual Research (ALTAR)
- Anton Breinl Research Centre
- Agriculture Technology and Adoption Centre (AgTAC)
- Living on Campus
- How to apply
- Advanced Analytical Centre
- Alumni
- AMHHEC
- Aquaculture Solutions
- AusAsian Mental Health Research Group
- ARCSTA
- Area 61
- Association of Australian University Secretaries
- Australian Lions Stinger Research
- Australian Tropical Herbarium
- Australian Quantum & Classical Transport Physics Group
- Boating and Diving
- JCU-CSIRO Partnership
- Employability Edge
- Clinical Psychedelic Research Lab
- Centre for Tropical Biosecurity
- Career Ready Plan
- Careers at JCU
- Careers and Employability
- Chancellery
- Centre for Tropical Bioinformatics and Molecular Biology
- CITBA
- CMT
- CASE
- College of Business, Law and Governance
- College of Healthcare Sciences
- College of Medicine and Dentistry
- College of Science and Engineering
- CPHMVS
- Centre for Disaster Solutions
- CSTFA
- Cyber Security Hub
- Cyclone Testing Station
- The Centre for Disaster Studies
- Daintree Rainforest Observatory
- Defence
- Discover Nature at JCU
- Research Division
- Services and Resources Division
- Education Division
- Elite Athletes
- eResearch
- Environmental Research Complex [ERC]
- Estate
- Fletcherview
- Foundation for Australian Literary Studies
- Gender Equity Action and Research
- General Practice and Rural Medicine
- JCU Orientation
- Give to JCU
- Governance
- Art of Academic Writing
- Art of Academic Editing
- Graduate Research School
- Graduation
- Indigenous Education and Research Centre
- Indigenous Engagement
- Indigenous Legal Needs Project
- Inherent Requirements
- IsoTropics Geochemistry Lab
- IT Services
- International Students
- Research and Innovation Services
- JCU Eduquarium
- JCU Heroes Programs
- JCU Webinars
- JCU Events
- JCU Global Experience
- JCU Ideas Lab
- JCU Job Ready
- JCU Motorsports
- JCU Prizes
- JCU Sport
- JCU Turtle Health Research
- Language and Culture Research Centre
- CEE
- LearnJCU
- Library
- Mabo Decision: 30 years on
- MARF
- Marine Geophysics Laboratory
- New students
- Off-Campus Students
- Office of the Vice Chancellor and President
- Virtual Open Day
- Orpheus
- Open Day
- Outstanding Alumni
- Parents and Partners
- Pathways to university
- Pharmacy Full Scope
- Planning for your future
- Placements
- Policy
- PAHL
- Publications
- Professional Experience Placement
- Queensland Research Centre for Peripheral Vascular Disease
- Rapid Assessment Unit
- RDIM
- Researcher Development Portal
- Roderick Centre for Australian Literature and Creative Writing
- Safety and Wellbeing
- Scholarships
- Contextual Science for Tropical Coastal Ecosystems
- Staff
- State of the Tropics
- Strategic Procurement
- Student Equity and Wellbeing
- Student profiles
- SWIRLnet
- TARL
- TESS
- TREAD
- TropEco for Staff and Students
- TQ Maths Hub
- TUDLab
- Unicare Centre and Unicampus Kids
- UAV
- VAVS Home
- Work Health and Safety
- WHOCC for Vector-borne & NTDs
- Media
- Copyright and Terms of Use
- Australian Institute of Tropical Health & Medicine
- Pay review
Award categories
To be eligible to nominate in any of the following award categories a nominee:
- Must have completed a Bachelors degree (AQF level 7), or higher qualification from JCU (or its predecessor institutions).
- Does not need to be working in the discipline from which they graduated.
- Cannot be a current paid staff member of JCU.
Chancellor’s and Vice-Chancellor’s Distinguished Awards
Recognise alumni who demonstrate distinguished and significant excellence in their career, industry or community. One of each awarded from the alumni cohort.
- Distinguished career and reached the top of their profession;
- Distinction to themselves, credit to the University, and/or benefit to their communities through their career;
- Advanced knowledge or outstanding contribution to their field of endeavor (including research and development);
- Long-term motivational and innovative leadership in their field or profession;
- Sustained, ground-breaking or significant social impact and/or service to community beyond their regular employment.
Rising Star Award
Celebrates extraordinary accomplishments of younger alumni and what they have achieved in their shorter career span, nominees will be 39 years or younger at time of nomination. One awarded from the alumni cohort.
- On-going, high level of achievement and/or advancement of knowledge in their field of endeavor (professional, academic, research);
- Motivational and innovative leadership in their field or profession;
- Sustained, ground-breaking or significant social impact and/or service to community.
Outstanding Indigenous Alumni Award
Celebrates an exceptional graduate of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander descent, who demonstrates outstanding achievement in their chosen field of endeavour and/or has made outstanding contributions to the community. One awarded from the alumni cohort.
- Outstanding contributions to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities through contributions to public policy, volunteerism or activism;
- On-going, high level of achievement/contribution in their field of endeavor (professional, academic, research);
- Motivational and innovative leadership in their field or profession;
- Sustained, ground-breaking or significant social impact and/or service to community.
Spirit of JCU Award
This award recognises alumni living or working predominantly (more than 50% of the time) in remote or very remote locations across Australia (RA4 or RA5 ASGC Remoteness Areas 2016) or comparable demographics internationally. One awarded from the alumni cohort.
- Outstanding commitment to remote and very remote Australia;
- Advanced the knowledge of, or made an outstanding contribution to, their field of endeavor (including research and development) relative to remote or very remote communities;
- Significant involvement in the development of the regional community or its economy;
- Sustained, ground-breaking or significant social impact in remote/very remote communities;
- Demonstrated motivational and innovative leadership in their field or profession within remote or very remote location.
Trailblazer Award
This award recognises alumni who are forward-thinking leaders, innovators or entrepreneurs in their industry, profession, field of research or area of expertise. One awarded from the alumni cohort.
- Change-maker, entrepreneur, disruptor, researcher, business owner or startup creator who has made significant innovation or industry disruption;
- Courage in exploring new areas in respect to their field of work;
- Forward-thinking, ground-breaking or visionary leadership;
- Inspiration to the next generation and the community at large through their work and creative thinking;
- Advanced knowledge or outstanding contribution to their field of endeavor (including research and development).
Key dates
- 12th February 2024: Nominations open
- 22nd April 2024: Nominations close
- By beginning June: Successful nominees contacted, unsuccessful nominators notified that their candidate was unsuccessful.
- End August: Announcement of recipients.
Make a nomination
The JCU Outstanding Alumni Awards recognise the excellence and achievements of JCU Alumni who have made outstanding contributions in their chosen field.