Event details
2022 CEHD Alumni Awards
Friday of Homecoming Weekend
2021 Golden Apple and Keystone Award recipients
Golden Apple Award
Mark Bielang, Superintendent, Portage Public Schools
Sandy Standish, Retired, Executive Director, Kalamazoo County Ready 4s
Keystone Early Career Award
Matthew Wittbrodt, Senior Data Scientist, Northwestern University
Keystone Meritorious Award
Alandra Washington, Vice President of Quality and Organizational Effectiveness and the Transformation
Learn more about the 2021 award recipients.
Outstanding Alumni award
The CEHD Outstanding Alumni Award is one of the University's highest alumni awards and is given to alumni who bring distinction to their alma mater through professional achievements and who have enjoyed a high level of success in their careers.
Deadline: June 30
Golden Apple award
The Golden Apple Award is given to honor two outstanding individuals who graduated from the College of Education and Human Development at Western Michigan University and are presently working or retired from the many professions involved in the educational experience. The individuals will be personally selected by their peers as being representative of educational excellence and commitment.
Deadline: June 30
Keystone Early Career award
The Keystone Early Career Award is designed to recognize one graduate who has achieved substantial professional growth and advancement within the last ten years in his or her chosen profession in the field of human development.
Deadline: June 30
Keystone Meritorious Achievement award
The Keystone Meritorious Achievement Award recognizes one graduate (graduation year must be at least 10 years prior to nomination year) who has demonstrated outstanding professional achievements and distinction in the field of human development.
Deadline: June 30