UERU Leadership Award

The Association for Undergraduate Education at Research Universities (UERU) Leadership Award is the highest honor bestowed by the UERU Board and is given, when at all, to no more than two recipients at each biannual UVP Meeting in recognition of extraordinary volunteer service to The Association for Undergraduate Education at Research Universities.

Established in 2025, the UERU Leadership Award marks and contributes to the ongoing celebration of UERU’s 25th Anniversary.

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UERU Leadership Award (June 2025)

Rachel Holloway

Rachel Holloway

Virgina Tech

Dr. Rachel Holloway’s extended service on the UERU Executive Committee provided much-needed stability during the Covid-19 pandemic; she traveled to Colorado State University at a critical time when the Home Office requested that the UERU Board President advocate for UERU vis-à-vis CSU’s President and Provost; Dr. Holloway remains active as an Emeritus Board Member, as evidenced by her serving as lead facilitator for UVP 101 during the 2025 Spring UVP Meeting jointly hosted by Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University. By bestowing the inaugural UVP Leadership Award to Dr. Rachel Holloway, the UERU Board recognizes these and countless other instances of her extraordinarily consequential volunteer leadership.

Beth Loizeaux

Beth Loizeaux

Boston University

Dr. Elizabeth (Beth) Bergmann Loizeaux is a UERU past president and Board Member Emerita who helped recruit members to and subsequently lead the Boyer 2030 Commission. An ex officio Commissioner herself, Beth helped solicit UVP input into the Commission’s work and served as lead author of The Equity-Excellence Imperative (published by the University Press of Colorado in 2022). In addition to thousands of print copies in circulation, the Boyer 2030 Report has been downloaded over 35,000 times to unique IP addresses and continues to inspire fundamental reform, its main purpose, as well as additional scholarship, including the contributions collected in the forthcoming Johns Hopkins University Press volume, The Equity-Excellence Imperative in Action. The UERU Board recognizes Beth Loizeaux for these and other instances of her extraordinarily consequential volunteer leadership.