# True Bruin Values Award Eligibility Requirements

**Source**: https://adminvc.ucla.edu/true-bruin-values-award/eligibility-requirements
**Parent**: https://adminvc.ucla.edu/policies-and-guidance

When submitting a nomination, please provide a full description of the candidate’s achievements. Examples of detailed nominations can be found on the [True Bruin Values Award Recipients page](https://adminvc.ucla.edu/true-bruin-values-award/recipients).

## True Bruin Values Eligibility Requirements

- Any UCLA career staff member, Management and Senior Professional (MSP) employee, in good standing with at least one year of UCLA service is eligible.
- Nominees must have a sustained record of excellence during their employment and outstanding citizenship in the university community.
- Employees in student status, faculty, current True Bruin Value committee members, and previous recipients of the award are not eligible.
- Nominees must have the following UC trainings completed:
  - Abusive Conduct in the Workplace Training
  - COVID-19 Pandemic Training
  - Cyber Security Awareness Training
  - Ethical Values and Conduct Training
  - Sexual Violence/Sexual Harassment Prevention Training Program
  - Emergency Evacuation Training

### Respect

- Nominee demonstrates excellent regard for others’ rights, traditions, feelings, and points-of-views. They actively develop professional, kind, and mutually enriching interpersonal relationships with members of the UCLA community.
- Nominee has demonstrated the ability to leverage the differences of the individuals they interact with in order to effectively work through conflict or difficult situations.
- Nominee supports diversity, equity, and inclusion by using the advantage of effective collaboration on programs and projects.

### Accountability

- Nominee takes responsibility for honest and ethical conduct towards others, extending to students, staff, faculty, and the wider campus community.
- Nominee takes ownership for tasks and projects, actively seeks feedback on the outcomes and impacts, and is an exemplary steward of university’s resources.
- Nominee conducts themselves with tact and grace when dealing with difficult subject matters, deadlines, personalities, or processes.

### Integrity

- Nominee consistently demonstrates transparency, honesty, and reliability in their work and interactions with others.
- Nominee’s actions have had an exemplary impact to the customer or community member's experience.
- Consistently engages others and collaborates to foster an environment of integrity in the workplace.

### Service

- Nominee demonstrates a commitment to public service with quantifiable examples of their positive impact on the Bruin community.
- Nominee provides an effective and proactive approach to process improvements to address the Bruin community's needs.
- Nominee takes a leadership role in collaborating with groups, organizations, and partnering with stakeholders to address community challenges.

### Excellence

- Nominee goes above and beyond to produce impactful results.
- Nominee leads by example, demonstrates the qualities and characteristics of leadership, and consistently seeks to engage others.
- Nominee looks for opportunity to innovate and thinks strategically.

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Nomination windows open twice per year and winners will be announced shortly thereafter. TBV award recipients will be honored at a breakfast with Vice Chancellor Beck and receive a certificate of recognition, a commemorative TBV jacket, and two tickets to qualified UCLA events. Nominee forms will be reviewed by a committee of your peers, the True Bruin Values committee, and submitted for a final vote to the Administration Leadership Team (ALT).

Let’s come together to recognize and honor each other! Please submit your nominations when the windows open each February and August.