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Texas Tech & University of Arizona Win APPA's 2013 Award Excellence for A PPA's highest institutional honor, the Award for Excellence in Facilities Management (AFE), recognizes those educational institutions whose facilities management organizations demonstrate quality in overall operations and effectiveness. The two most recent recipients—Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas, and the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona—were honored at the awards banquet during the APPA 2013 conference held in August in Minneapolis, Minnesota. This year APPA celebrated the 25th anniversary of the Award for Excellence. Since the AFE Award's inception in 1988, when Brigham Young University and the Medical College of Georgia became the first recipients, fewer than 50 institutions have received this distinct honor. The Award for Excellence is based on a set of criteria that includes: • Leadership • Strategic and Operational Planning • Customer Focus • Information and Analysis • Development and Management of Human Resources • Process Management • Performance Results Evaluation of the award applications consists of two parts: a self-evaluation addressing specific, stringent criteria, and a site visit by representatives from APPA's Professional Affairs Committee to confirm the accuracy of the self-assessment. Applying for and receiving the AFE is no small task for an institution. As you will read in the following pages, it takes teamwork from everyone within the facilities organization and requires coordination, motivation, and support from the top levels of leadership to be a successful facilities operation and to win the APPA Award for Excellence. The deadline for applications for the 2014 Award for Excellence is January 31, 2014. Successful candidates will be honored at APPA's Centennial Celebration July 21-23, 2014 in San Diego, California. To apply and for more information, visit: www.appa.org/recognition/awardsforexcellence.cfm. To view past AFE winners, visit: www.appa.org/recognition/excelwinners.cfm. —Steve Glazner 26 | september/october 2013 | Facilities Manager