• Of The Month Awards (OTMs)

    The main purpose of OTMs is to recognize the outstanding contributions of the student leaders and professionals within the residence halls. That recognition can come from a variety of forms such as recognizing a single leader, group of leaders, or an effective program hosted by leaders. OTMs serve to congratulate and acknowledge the accomplishments of all of these individuals, while encouraging the continued effort and greater achievement. OTMs are split up into a variety of categories that campuses can use. Only sixteen categories are recognized on the NACURH and regional levels including a variety of student, professional, program and organizational categories.

    OTMs come in a sixteen different NACURH recognized categories including:

    • Community Service Program
    • Diversity Program
    • Educational Program
    • Passive Program
    • Graduate Assistant
    • Social Program
    • Organization
    • Spotlight
    • Residential Community
    • Advisor
    • Executive Board Member
    • First Year Student
    • Institutional Faculty/Staff
    • Residence Life Faculty/Staff
    • Resident Assistant
    • Student
    • Student Staff

    OTMs are voted on at the campus level at the end of every month. Winning campus-level OTMs are sent to the regional OTM voting committee to vote on regional winning OTMs. These regional winning OTMs are sent to the national level through the National Association of College and university Residence Halls for national recognition.

  • Campus-Winning OTMs

    Below are a few of our campus-winning OTMs for the month of January! These OTMs were submitted by members and voted on by our general body. They will also be submitted to a voting board to be voted on regionally.

    • Spotlight:
      • Charmaine (Elephant Step Inn) nominated by Nivedita Srinivasan
    • Social Program:
      • The Welcome Back Show (IMPROVment) by Kurt Drath and Palki Gupta
    • Diversity Program:
      • QTPOC: GaY Awakening Slideshow Party by Al Johns and Diego Acosta-Felix
    • Resident Assistant:
      • Lear Wang by Malcolm Miller
    • Student:
      • Gabrielle Alphonse nominated by Ava Johnson
    • Executive Board Member:
      • Malcolm Miller by Maren Antee
    • Residential Community
      • Carlton Road Community Council by Hannah Shih
    • Organization
      • CWRU Undergraduate Biochemistry Society by Johana Guci and Em Sandler

  • Regionally-Winning OTMs

    Below are a few of our regionally-winning OTMs from the fall 2023 semester! These OTMs were submitted by members and voted on by representatives from the region. They will also be submitted to a voting board to be voted on nationally.

    • Executive Board Member (September):
      • Braeden Price nominated by Malcolm Miller
    • Spotlight (September):
      • UPBroadway: Six the Musical nominated by Maren Antee
    • Advisor:
      • Skip Begley nominated by Nivedita Srinivasan
    • Executive Board Member (November):
      • Maren Antee nominated by Braeden Price
    • Spotlight (Novemebr):
      • University Programming Board nominated by Hannah Shih
    • Residence Life Professional Staff:
      • Brandon Eddinger nominated by Lexie G.