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The RP Group Awards

Recognizing Excellence Among CCC IRPE Professionals

The RP Group Awards were established to recognize the varied contributions of institutional research, planning, and effectiveness (IRPE) professionals throughout the California Community Colleges (CCC) system. 

Through a complement of seven awards, the organization strives to acknowledge the different ways in which professionals contribute to the IRPE field, their colleges and districts, and the CCC system broadly.

2026 RP Group Awards

Nominations for the 2026 awards have closed. Thanks to all who submitted nominations in recognition of their colleagues! Award recipients will be notified in early March.

About The RP Group Awards

Click on the images below to learn more about each award. 

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Rising Star Award

The Rising Star Award is presented to an individual who has shown promise and potential impact in the IRPE field within their first 10 years in the career.

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Outstanding Project Award

The Outstanding Project Award recognizes colleagues and organizations that have made extraordinary contributions to student and institutional success through community college research, planning, and institutional effectiveness efforts.

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Lifetime and Partner Achievement Awards

The Lifetime Achievement and Partner Achievement Awards celebrate the cumulative body of work, creativity, commitment, and passion of individuals working within the research and planning community of California community colleges. These awards are an end-of-career tribute to these individuals’ statewide impact on student success.

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Leadership Star Award

The Leadership Star Award (formerly known as the IRPE Professional Leadership Award) is presented to a mid-career IRPE professional whose work spans multiple projects, years, and/or initiatives and is focused on the practitioner’s holistic impact on institutional effectiveness, success, and equity.

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EDI Champion Award

The EDI (Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion) Champion Award acknowledges and celebrates exemplary leadership in creating and sustaining a culture of equity, diversity, and inclusion in IRPE.

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Career Achievement Award

The Career Achievement Award acknowledges and celebrates the culmination of a person’s work as an IRPE professional who has had a significant and positive impact in their local and/or regional IRPE community.