Best Scholarly Paper Award 2025

The AAHHE “Best Scholarly Paper” Award is open only to accepted research/scholarly papers that are presented at the AAHHE annual conference. For full consideration for the 2025 AAHHE “Best Scholarly Paper” Award, author(s):

  1. Must submit a proposal for the 2025 AAHHE Conference via the following submission portal by October 2, 2024. The proposal must be accepted for presentation at the conference in order to be eligible for the 2025 AAHHE “Best Scholarly Paper” Award. 

  2. Must present their paper in-person at the 2025 AAHHE National Conference. The conference will take place at Metropolitan State University of Denver (MSUD), Denver, CO on March 7 – 8, 2025. For more information on the conference, click here.

  3. At the time of the conference proposal submission, interested authors must opt in to confirm their interest in their proposal being considered for the “Best Scholarly Award”. 

  4. Once the paper has been accepted for presentation at the conference, authors must upload their final and complete manuscript to the AAHHE Submissions Portal by February 14th, 2025, for review by the AAHHE Publications Committee. The final paper should reflect adherence to the JHHE publication guidelines. 

  5. The three winning AAHHE “Best Scholarly Papers”:

    1. Will be selected by the AAHHE Publications Committee, which also oversees other writing awards for the association (e.g., book awards).
    2. Are eligible for publication in the AAHHE Special Section Issue (April) of the Journal of Hispanics in Higher Education at the discretion of the Editor-in-Chief and Editorial Board. Therefore, the manuscripts will be peer-reviewed by the Editorial Board. JHHE is a quarterly international journal devoted to the advancement of knowledge and understanding of issues at Hispanic-serving institutions, maintains a broad focus and accepts the highest quality scholarly, creative and practical articles that combine research with application, fostering the integration of theory and practice. 
    3. Will receive a recognition certificate and be highlighted on the AAHHE website. The award can be added as “2025 AAHHE Best Scholarly Paper Award” to the author’s CV. There is no remuneration for the authors of the winning papers.

  6. The selected manuscripts will be:

    1. required to follow JHHE guidelines.
    2. submitted by the authors directly to JHHE by March 3rd, 2025. 
    3. subject to JHHE’s regular peer review process. Any articles that do not pass the JHHE peer review and do not receive an ‘accept’ decision from the Editor will not be published in the Journal. Articles that do not meet the aforementioned deadlines may be published in a later issue of the Journal, subject to the Editor-in-Chief discretion. AAHHE and JHHE have a long-standing partnership, and it is our expectation that all three papers are of high quality and meet the rigorous academic standards to be published in the journal.

 

Revised February 10, 2025