Dr. J. Norman Baldwin won the Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award in 2017.
Dr. J. Norman Baldwin has been a faculty member at UA since 1988. His service projects at UA include acting as facilitator (chairman) for the Task Force for Excellence in Equity, Inclusion and Citizenship from 2013 to the present and founding the Tornado Disaster Relief Internship Program, which placed more than 155 students in internships and 60 more students in part-time positions helping to rebuild Tuscaloosa and serve tornado victims. The free labor generated by the program is estimated to be a gift of $250,000 to the relief effort, and the program won UA’s Service Project of the Year Award. He has served in the past as director of the Master’s in Public Administration Program; among his service projects with his students was a 61-page document that explored problems and solutions related to the Hurricane Katrina relief effort – during which UA provided temporary shelter for victims and provided ideas in case UA had to provide shelter again.
His awards include the Outstanding Commitment to Students Award from The College of Arts and Sciences; Service Project of the Year Award, a University-wide award for the work of the Disaster Relief Internship Program; the Buford Peace Award, for demonstrating “exceptional levels of involvement in mediating human disputes, helping overcome prejudice, promoting justice, and establishing peace” and the Morris L. Mayer Award for service and leadership.
In addition to publishing more than 30 scholarly articles, he is the editor and coauthor with 77 college students of “Sand Sure Gets in Funny Places: Ten Lessons and Confessions about College.” Baldwin earned a doctorate from the University of Georgia in 1981.