CIP College of Fellows Nominations
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College of Fellows
Fellowship in the Canadian Institute of Planners is the highest honour the Institute can bestow upon a planner. This distinction recognizes excellence, identifies prominent role models, promotes advances in planning practice and draws leaders to the forefront of planning in Canada. Such professional attainment and experience must be significant at a national or international planning level. Fellows proudly use the designation FCIP to denote Fellow of the Canadian Institute of Planners.
To become a Fellow, a member must be nominated by another member in good standing and adhere to the nomination criteria. The nomination is then brought before CIP’s Honours Jury, which makes a recommendation to the CIP Board of Directors. Newly elected Fellows are presented during the honours and awards ceremony at CIP’s national conference.
Eligible Nominees
The FCIP designation may be granted to a planner who meets the following two criteria:
- is and has been a member of CIP in good standing for ten or more years
or
is an individual who was a member of CIP who is now retired, as defined in the by-laws
or
is an individual who was a member of CIP in good standing and nominated posthumously within five (5) years of death - has achieved a high degree of excellence in at least two of the following categories and made a nationally significant contribution* in one of them:
- Professional practice
- Teaching and mentoring planners
- Planning and community research
- Community service and leadership in the profession
*A contribution that is considered as being of national or international significance could include one or more of the following:
- The development of unusual (unique) policy, approaches to problems, designs or services that are conceived locally and offer the potential to or are subsequently adopted by other jurisdictions in various locations in Canada or internationally
- Active participation over an extended period in the formulation, debate, and/or implementation of policies and proposals that have or could have a significant national impact
- Academic research or professional practises that make or could make an extraordinary contribution in a national or international context
- A nominee's international accomplishments that they introduce to the Canadian planning context may constitute a significant national contribution
- Exemplary service to CIP over an extended period in a variety of roles
Submission package requirements and the full nomination guidelines can be found here on the CIP Website.
Questions regarding the nominations process can be directed to impact@cip-icu.ca