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True Bruin Values Award Eligibility Requirements

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.

True Bruin Values Eligibility Requirements

  • Any UCLA career staff member or 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

Integrity

  • Nominee is transparent, honest and trustworthy 
  • Nominee communicates with honesty and transparency
  • Nominee makes ethical decisions grounded in evidence and truth
  • Nominee demonstrates openness, humility, and accountability.

Excellence

  • Nominee is engaged, innovative and impactful and sets high standards
  • Nominee pursues knowledge through inquiry
  • Nominee collaborates to improve quality and impact, and advance the public good

Belonging

  • Nominee treats others with respect across differences and creates inclusive environments
  • Nominee addresses bias and harm with accountability and care, and builds bridges across perspectives. 

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.