Archive
2019
- Mary Henige – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Communication
- Raymond Pointer – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Art and Art History
- Richard Margitza – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Music
- Frank Hartenstein – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Theatre
2018
- Sarah Ryley – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Communication
- Michael Luchs – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Art and Art History
- Michael Krajewski – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Music
- David Calhoun – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Theatre
- Howard Hertz– CFPCA Arts Advocacy Award
2017
- Don Gonyea – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Communication
- Susan Rossen – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Art and Art History
- Charlotte Merkerson – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Music
- Dr. Phillip Moss – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Theatre
- William "Bill" Prady – CFPCA Arts Advocacy Award
2016
- Lynne Avadenka – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Art and Art History
- James Curnow – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Music
- Della Hamby – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Dance
- Shawn Kahle – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Communication
- Sam Richardson – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Theatre
2015
- Toi Banks – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Dance
- Delores Ivory Davis – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Music
- Ann Delisi – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Communication
- David Ramsey – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Theatre
- Timothy Van Laar – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Art and Art History
- Eugene Driker – CFPCA Arts Advocacy Award
2014
- Jerry Grant – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Music
- Ray Katz – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Art and Art History
- Phyllis Somerville – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Theatre and Dance
- Elliot Wilhelm – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Communication
- Donald Ritzenhein – CFPCA Volunteer of the Year Award
- The Erb Family Foundation – CFPCA Arts Advocacy Award
2013
- Gregory Andracke – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Communication
- John Hunter – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Art and Art History
- James Lentini – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Music
- Elizabeth Schmidt – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Dance
- Harry Leibowitz – Dean's Award for Community Impact
2012
- Linda Downs – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Art and Art History
- Kendall Smith – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Theatre
- Sonya Tayeh – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Dance
- Lisa Vallee-Smith – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Communication
- Magenta Giraffe Theatre Company – Dean's Award for Arts Entrepreneurship
2008
- Kenneth and Kimberly Cockrel – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Communication
- John Feierabend – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Music
- Kent Neely – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Theatre
- John Egner – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Art and Art History
2007
- Ed Fraga – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Art and Art History
- David Salzman – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Communication
- Rose Marie Floyd – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Dance
- George Shirley – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Music
- Thorsten Kaye – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Theatre
- Susan Mosey – Distinguished Community Service Award
2006
- Daniel Loepp – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Communication
- Eunice Moore – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Dance
- Larry Walker – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Art and Art History
- Leonard Leone – Dean's Award for Distinguished Service
- Tom Skerritt – Dean's Award for Career Achievement
2005
- Jack Kay – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Communication
- Stephen Millen – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Music
- Ernie Hudson – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Theatre
- Richard Bilaitis – Dean's Distinguished Service Award
- Detroit Free Press – Dean's Community Service Award
2004
- William Benoit – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Communication
- Robert Brock – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Theatre
- Helen Landgarten – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Art Education
- James Pallas – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Art and Art History
- Charles Postlewate – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Music
- John Richards – Career Achievement Award in the Field of English
- Sharon Unrau – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Dance
2003
- Jerry Flint – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Communication
- Annette Alexander Frank – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Art Education
- Cary Loren – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Art and Art History
- John Macurdy – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Music
- Ruben Santiago Hudson – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Theatre
- Linda Cleveland Simmons – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Dance
- University Cultural Center Association – CFPCA Arts Advocacy Award
2002
- Kathleen Gaffney – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Theatre
- Harvey Goldstein – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Art Education
- Jennifer Noyer – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Dance
- Don Palmer – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Music
- John Nick Pappas – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Art and Art History
- Dr. Sidney A. Ribeau – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Communication
- Anca Vlasopolos – Career Achievement Award in the Field of English
- Peter Cummings – CFPCA Arts Advocacy Award
2001
- Edward K. Christian – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Communication
- Ira Hearshen – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Music
- Victoria Holley-Foster – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Dance
- S. Epatha Merkerson – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Theatre
- David Small – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Art and Art History
- Aida Snow – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Art Education
- George Tysh – Career Achievement Award in the Field of English
- Dr. David DiChiera – CFPCA Arts Advocacy Award
2000
- George Cantor – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Communication
- William P. Foster – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Music
- Carol Halsted – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Dance
- Carol S. Pylant – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Art and Art History
- Tom Sizemore – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Theatre
- Marian Kinney Stephens – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Art Education
- Maggie Allesee – CFPCA Arts Advocacy Award
1998-1999
- Charles Canon – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Art Education
- Alan Danielson – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Dance
- Arthur C. Danto – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Art and Art History
- Chad Everett – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Communication
- Yusef A. Lateef – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Music
- Martin Pakledinaz – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Theatre
- Bonnie Lee Moss Rattner – Career Achievement Award in the Field of English
- Frank D. Stella – CFPCA Arts Advocacy Award
1997
- Kim Carney – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Theatre
- Lori Christmastree – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Art and Art History
- Malcolm Johns – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Music
- Marion K. Jones – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Dance
- Victor H. Miesel, Ph.D. – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Art Education
- Frank Pahl – Career Achievement Award in the Field of English
- Erik Smith – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Communication
- Emma Lazaroff Schaver – CFPCA Arts Advocacy Award
1996
- Sergio De Giusti – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Art and Art History
- Rosemary Gould – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Art Education
- Robert Lambert – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Theatre
- Joseph Loduca – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Music
- Alvin Mayes – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Dance
- Elizabeth Meese, Ph.D. – Career Achievement Award in the Field of English
- Thom Sharp – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Communication
- Louis G. Redstone – CFPCA Arts Advocacy Award
1995
- Rose Marie Floyd – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Dance
- Mark Fritz – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Communication
- John P. Glick – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Art and Art History
- Dr. Polly Hughes – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Art Education
- Ollie McFarland – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Music
- Dr. Deborah Tannen – Career Achievement Award in the Field of English
- Barbara Tarbuck – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Theatre
- Arthur L. Johnson – CFPCA Arts Advocacy Award
1994
- Robert Bates, Ph.D. – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Music
- Beverly Barber – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Dance
- Sonny Eliot – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Communication
- Woodie King, Jr. – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Theatre
- James Russell Mayes – Career Achievement Award in the Field of English
- Louise J. Nobili – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Art and Art History
- Shirley Woodson-Reid – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Art Education
- James Duffy, Jr. – CFPCA Arts Advocacy Award
1993
- Roy E. Ernst – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Music
- Paula Gosling Hare – Career Achievement Award in the Field of English
- Diane D. Kordich – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Art Education
- Stanley Lechtzin – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Art and Art History
- Philip Spensley – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Theatre
- Helen Thomas – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Communication
- Charles A. Forbes – CFPCA Arts Advocacy Award
1992
- Portia Fields-Anderson – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Dance
- Daniel Majeske – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Music
- Dr. David McKay – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Art Education
- Nancy Mitchnick – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Art and Art History
- Don Pilette – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Communication
- June Akers Seese – Career Achievement Award in the Field of English
- Russell E. Smith – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Theatre
- Dr. Charles H. Wright – CFPCA Arts Advocacy Award
1991
- Lillian Wolock Elliott – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Art Education
- Clarice Tinsley-Giles – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Communication
- Julie Jensen – Career Achievement Award in the Field of English
- Mark A. Leithauser – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Art and Art History
- Gordon Mathie – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Music
- Sharon McColl – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Dance
- Tom Spackman – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Theatre
- Leon S. Cohan – CFPCA Arts Advocacy Award
1990
- Alice Galloway – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Theatre
- Karen Goodman – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Dance
- Susan Hauptman – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Art and Art History
- Shirley Love – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Music
- Paul Petrie – Career Achievement Award in the Field of English
- Cledie Taylor – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Art Education
- Roger and Henrietta Fridholm – CFPCA Arts Advocacy Award
1989
- Gere Baskin – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Art and Art History
- Frederick Coffin – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Theatre
- William Harris – Career Achievement Award in the Field of English
- Allan T. Mette – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Art Education
- Barbara Selinger – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Dance
- David Wagner – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Music
- Paul L. and Susan D. Nine – CFPCA Arts Advocacy Award
1988
- Kenneth Burrell – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Music
- Sharon Dilworth – Career Achievement Award in the Field of English
- Barbara Hallman – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Art Education
- Ellen Phelan – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Art and Art History
- Irma Pylyshenko – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Dance
- Paul Stolarsky – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Theatre
- Michael Ilitch – CFPCA Arts Advocacy Award
1987
- Leo "Ted" Conebeare – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Art Education
- Stephen Dobyns – Career Achievement Award in the Field of English
- Richard R. Kinney, Jr. – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Art and Art History
- Wil Love – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Theatre
- Joseph Striplin – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Music
- Anne Warren – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Dance
- Walter Buhl Ford, II – CFPCA Arts Advocacy Award
1986
- Patricia Brooks – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Dance
- Dr. Seymour Chatman – Career Achievement Award in the Field of English
- Brazeal Dennard – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Music
- Walter Samuel Hamady - Career Achievement Award in the Field of Art and Art History
- James Jennings – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Art Education
- David Regal – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Theatre
- W. Hawkins Ferry – CFPCA Arts Advocacy Award
1985
- Irving Berg – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Art Education
- Garth Fagan – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Dance
- Shirley Harbin – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Theatre
- Naomi Long Madgett – Career Achievement Award in the Field of English
- William Peck – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Art and Art History
- John Rea – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Music
- Leonard Leone – CFPCA Arts Advocacy Award
1984
- Dr. Harry Begian – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Music
- Esther M. Broner – Career Achievement Award in the Field of English
- Susanne Hilberry – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Art and Art History
- George Pentecost – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Theatre
- Ann Zirulnik – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Dance
- Fern Zwickey – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Art Education
- Paul Ganson – CFPCA Arts Advocacy Award
1983
- Joy Hakanson Colby – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Art and Art History
- Robert Harris – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Music
- Faye Kicknosway – Career Achievement Award in the Field of English
- Paula Kramer – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Dance
- Hughie Lee-Smith – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Art Education
- Robert Luscombe – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Theatre
1982
- David Barr – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Art and Art History
- Gay Delanghe – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Dance
- Maurice Grossman – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Art Education
- Barbara Meek – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Theatre
- Ann and Ken Mikolowski – Career Achievement Award in the Field of English
- Donald Sinta – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Music
1981
- Raymond Blackwell – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Art Education
- Hoyt W. Fuller – Career Achievement Award in the Field of English
- Jacqueline Davis – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Dance
- Roger Sherman – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Art and Art History
- George Shirley – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Music
- Jeffrey Tambor – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Theatre
1980
- Harriet Berg – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Dance
- Mary Jane Bigler – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Art and Art History
- Audley M. Grossman, Jr. – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Theatre
- Robert Hayden – Career Achievement Award in the Field of English
- Fred Harrington – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Art Education
- Isador Saslov – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Music
1978
- State Senator Jack Faxon – CFPCA Arts Advocacy Award
1977
- Kathryn Ellis – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Dance
- Harlan Hoffa – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Art Education
- Addison Franklin Page – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Art and Art History
- Dudley Randall – Career Achievement Award in the Field of English
- James Tocco – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Music
- Max Wright – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Theatre
1976
- Howard and Kathy Clark – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Art and Art History
- Phillip Levine – Career Achievement Award in the Field of English
- Cyril Miles – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Art Education
- Ruth Murray – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Dance
- Felix Resnick – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Music
- Michael Tolan – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Theatre
1975
- Murray Douglas – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Art Education
- G. Alden Smith – Career Achievement Award in the Field of Art and Art History