SUN Award
ASU staff and faculty recognized their colleagues with nearly 17,000 SUN Awards in 2024.
What is a SUN Award?
The SUN Award is an easy way to give specific, immediate recognition to one of your ASU co-workers. It is a thoughtful, positive way to honor an employee for supporting university goals. You can send a SUN Award to any faculty, staff or student worker who demonstrates individual excellence. When you send a SUN Award, you can send a copy of the award to the employee’s supervisor, manager or director.
Categories of excellence
- Exemplary services
- Demonstrating leadership
- Principled innovation
- Social embeddedness
- Sun Devil pride
- Supporting student success
- Sustainability
- Valuing diversity
How to give a SUN Award
Fill out an online form and personalize it with a short explanation that describes why you are sending the SUN Award. When you submit the online form, you and the recipient will be notified via email. Give someone an award today. If the award link does not work, please ensure you are connected to ASU's VPN client and try again.
The SUN Award is an employee-based program; only active employees, including student workers, can send and receive SUN Awards.
Download a poster for your office or break room to encourage others to help recognize great work.
How to win a Top SUN Award
Talent Development selects four recipients for an annual Top SUN Award based on the following criteria:
- The number of awards received for different items and projects.
- The variety of SUN Award categories received.
- The variety of senders.
- Statements that indicate quality performance.
- Supervisor interviews to confirm performance and that the individual is a good candidate for a Top SUN Award.
The Top SUN Award recipients are recognized at the annual Employee Appreciation BBQs.