Awards
2025 nominations are closed. Awardees will be announced at the 2025 national conference.
The Zenobia Lawrence Hikes Award recognizes a woman of color with a distinguished career (more than 15 years) in higher education demonstrated by scholarly endeavors or administrative and professional accomplishments. Additionally, she is an engaged member of her campus and community, with a history of advancing the development of women of color as they pursue their education and prepare for careers in the academy and beyond.
Who can be nominated?
Women of color who are tenured associate and full professors. Administrators such as deans, provosts, vice presidents, chief diversity officers and other executive senior level positions.
2024 Winner The Zenobia Lawrence Hikes Award for Faculty Sofiya Alhassan University of Massachusetts
2024 The Zenobia Lawrence Hikes Award for Faculty Winner
Sofiya Alhassan
University of Massachusetts
2024 Winner The Zenobia Lawrence Hikes Award for Administrators Paula Groves Price North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University
2024 The Zenobia Lawrence Hikes Award for Administrators Winner
Paula Groves Price
North Carolina Agricultural
and Technical State University
2024 Additional Awards
Charis N Tucker wins the Future of the Academy Award at the 2024 FWCA event
2024 The Future of the Academy Award Winner
Charis N. Tucker
Virginia Tech
Future of the Academy Award recognizes a woman of color early in her professional career, specifically at the doctoral and post-doctoral levels. She is an engaged member of her campus and community who has made scholarly accomplishments, demonstrated leadership, and embodied the meaning of sisterhood by serving and uplifting women of color through and beyond her scholarship.
2023 The Woman of Excellence Award Winner Tayloria Adams University of California, Irvine
2024 The Woman of Excellence Award Winner
Tayloria Adams
University of California, Irvine
Woman of Excellence Award recognizes a woman of color with a budding career in higher education demonstrated by less than 15 years of professional scholarly endeavors or administrative and professional accomplishments. She is an engaged member of her campus and community, with a history of advancing the development of women of color as they pursue their education and prepare for careers in the academy and beyond.
2023 Winners
2023 Zenobia Lawrence Hikes Award Winner
Dr. Kimberly R. Moffitt
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
2023 Zenobia Lawrence Hikes Award Winner
Dr. Michelle Jacob
University of Oregon
2023 Zenobia Lawrence Hikes Award Winner
Dr. Banah Ghadbian
Spelman College
2023 Zenobia Lawrence Hikes Award Winner
Ms. Brianna Baker
Teachers College, Columbia University
2022 Winners
2022 Zenobia Lawrence Hikes Award Winner
Dr. Juanita Johnson Bailey
