Boe Award

Boe Award Submission Information

The Boe Award honors the late Dr. Dennis Boe, Director of Honors at East Central Oklahoma State University. The untimely death of Dr. Boe robbed the NCHC and GPHC of a long-time leader, scholar, musician, poet, and good friend. The Great Plains Honors Council sponsors the Dennis Boe Award to showcase and reward outstanding scholarly work by the honors program/college students of its member institutions. 

General Guidelines

Please note the following when considering submitting for the Boe Award:

  • Honors directors/deans at each dues-paying institution may nominate up to two students (in any combination of the competition categories listed below) to be considered for the GPHC Boe Award Competition. The topics of each entry must focus on unrelated research projects.
  • Submissions will be sorted into two competition categories based on the number of semester credit hours completed by the student by the February 8th submission deadline:
    • Students who have earned fewer than 60 semester hours of college/university credit (including dual credit and transfer credit), OR
    • Students who have earned 60 hours or more of college/university credit (including dual credit and transfer credit)
  • While the research that provides the foundation for the Boe Award submissions may be mentored, it is expected that the paper is authored by the single student who submits it. 
  • Institutions must be current on paying their GPHC dues before their submission(s) will be accepted.
  • Submissions that do not comply with the guidelines listed here will be eliminated from the competition.  
  • Papers will be evaluated with the Boe Award Rubric.
  • Winners receive a $200 award, an engraved plaque, as well as eligibility for travel assistance to a future GPHC conference.

Submissions that do not win will automatically be included in the GPHC Conference Program.

Paper Requirements

Paper Requirements

In order to be considered, submissions must …

  • … be authored by students in good standing with their institution’s honors program/college.
  • … include an abstract of no more than 250 words.
  • … consist of a paper that is no more than 7,000 words (excluding its title, abstract, and references) of polished, scholarly prose and that uses a citation format consistent with the academic discipline associated with its topic.
  • … not include any identifying information of its author or institution;  that information should be provided in the submission webform (see “Submission Details”).
  • … be submitted by the honors director/dean of the nominating institution.
  • … be submitted electronically through the submission portal provided below (see “Submission Details”).

Deadline & Notification

  • Boe Award entries must be submitted by 5 p.m. on Monday, February 8, 2021.
  • Extensions beyond this deadline will not be granted.
  • Student authors and honors directors/deans will be informed of the competition results on or before Friday, March 5, 2021.

Submission Details

Each Boe Award entry must include the following information on its submission webform in addition to the uploaded student paper:

  • Institution Name
  • Director/Dean’s Name
  • Director/Dean’s Email
  • Student’s Name
  • Student’s Email
  • Competition Category (i.e., fewer than 60 credit hours or more than 60 credit hours)
  • Title of Boe Award Submission
  • Summary of no more than 50 words to appear in the GPHC conference program

The above materials should be submitted through the Boe Award Submission Portal by 5 p.m. on Monday, February 8, 2021.

Last Modified: 02/08/2021