MUJ and CUMU BEST JOURNAL ARTICLE 2024–2025 AWARD

Posted by Metropolitan Universities journal on November 18, 2025

The Metropolitan Universities journal (MUJ) and the Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities (CUMU) are proud to announce the launch of the Best Article Award to recognize work that exemplifies scholarly excellence, practical relevance and meaningful impact. The inaugural Best Article Award and Honorable Mentions were selected by a committee of MUJ editors and editorial board members and celebrated at the 2025 CUMU Conference.

Congratulations to Brent Brodie, Shawna Teper, Byron Gray and Lorna Schwartzentruber from York University for receiving the Best Journal Article 2024–2025 Award for Intersecting assets: How successful community engagement built a leading social procurement program at York University. Published in the 2024 CUMU Conference issue, this article investigates how strategic community partnerships form the bedrock of successful institutional community engagement activities and explores York’s Social Procurement Vendor Portal.

Two articles received honorable mentions:

• Leveraging university capital and in-kind resources into community partnerships, M. Meghan Raisch, Temple University
• The importance of lived experience in improving higher education in prison, Valerie Nguyen, Rosemary Russ, Rachel Ritacco, Mark Español and Michael Koenigs, University of Wisconsin at Madison; Frank Davis and Aaron Hick, Nehemiah Center for Urban Leadership Development; Marianne Oleson and Delilah McKinney, EXPO of Wisconsin; and Dant’e Cottingham, Unbreakable LLC