National
- Innovation in Teaching Award, Association of Public & Land-grant Universities, 2018
- Alumna, Higher Education Resource Services (HERS), Wellesley Institute, 2011-12
Institutional
- President’s Academic Leadership Institute, University of Missouri System, 2016-17
- University of Missouri Fellow, Southeastern Conference Academic Leadership Development Program, 2012-13
- Graduate Advisor/Mentor of the Year, College of Education, April 2012
- Honoree (Members of MizzouADVANCE Steering Board), Mizzou Inclusive Excellence Award, October, 2010
- Honor Tap, Rollins Society, Graduate Professional Council, University of Missouri, April 2010
- Gold Chalk Honoree, Graduate Professional Council, University of Missouri, April, 2010
- Alumnae Anniversary Fund Award, Women’s and Gender Studies Department and the MU Chancellor’s Committee on the Status of Women, University of Missouri, November, 2009
- Honoree (Members of MizzouADVANCE Steering Board), Tribute to MU’s Women, Chancellor’s Committee on the Status of Women, University of Missouri, March 20, 2008
- Graduate Teacher of the Year (AY 2004-2005), College of Education, University of Missouri, April, 2005
- New Faculty Teaching Scholar, University of Missouri System, 2004-2005
- Honoree, Tribute to MU’s Women, Chancellor’s Committee on the Status of Women, University of Missouri, May 12, 2004
- University Representative, Graduate Seminar on Higher Education Policy, Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) Annual Conference, San Antonio, TX, November 1999
- Recipient, Kenneth P. Saurman Memorial Award, University of Vermont (Annually awarded by faculty in the HESA Program to one student for academic excellence and potential to contribute as a practitioner and scholar), May 1993
- Member, Pi Sigma Alpha (National Government Honor Society), inducted in May 1989