Student Award Winners:
University of Memphis student Brittany D. Carter is the recipient of the 2012 Outstanding Student Award from the Tennessee Association on Higher Education and Disability (TNAHEAD).

Previous TNAHEAD Outstanding Student Award recipients:
2010: Kristy Millican

SDS Outstanding Faculty Award, the "See Me" Award:
University of Memphis faculty member Dr. Sally R. Ross, Professor in the College of Education, Health and Human Sciences, Department of Sport
Sciences, is the winner of the 2012 SDS Outstanding Faculty Award. The award honors a University of Memphis faculty member who has been nominated by a student with a disability who is registered with Student Disability Services. Because many people are uncomfortable openly discussing issues of disability, the award is titled the “See Me” Award and the student nominee must write an essay detailing ways that the faculty member has shown understanding of disability and willingness to learn about disability. The student nominator must also give examples of how the faculty member has demonstrated their willingness to assist the student as a learner. Most importantly, the faculty member must show respect in seeing the student and his or her abilities, while acknowledging issues of disability.

Past "See Me" Award recipients:
2011: Ms. Rachel Martin
2010: Dr. Sarah Clark Miller
2009: Dr. Charles Hall
2008: Dr. Anna Bess Sorin

SDS Staff Awards:
Student Disability Services (SDS) and Career Services received the 2011 Robert Greenberg Award for Innovation at the Career Opportunities for Students with Disabilities (COSD) conference in November 2011. Heather Wagner Dannison, Career GA for Student Disability Services, and Susan Te Paske, Director of Student Disability Services, received the award for creating innovative career programs for students with disabilities at the University of Memphis, in collaboration with Career Services at the University of Memphis.