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Awards

UTCPE Performance Excellence Awards

The University of Texas Center for Performance Excellence (UTCPE) is a recognition program for Texas organizations, based on the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award (MBNQA) Criteria. The UTCPE Program comprises three levels of awards for organizations to participate in a performance excellence journey that may lead ultimately to the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award:

LEVEL I

• Commitment Award
  Beginning to adopt performance excellence principles.

LEVEL II

• Commitment Award
  Beginning a systematic approach to performance excellence principles with performance results.
• Progress Award
  Demonstrating a systematic approach and some deployment of performance excellence principles, with performance results reported for some areas of importance to the organization.

LEVEL III

• Commitment Award
  Demonstrating a systematic approach and deployment of performance excellence principles, with performance results and trends reported for many areas of importance to the organization.
• Progress Award
  Demonstrating a systematic approach, deployment, and learning of performance excellence principles, with performance results, trends, and comparisons reported for many areas of importance to the organization.
• Significant Merit Award
  Demonstrating a systematic and effective approach, deployment, learning, and integration of performance excellence principles, with performance improvement results, trends, and comparisons reported for most areas of importance to the organization.
• Highest Achievement Award
  Demonstrating a systematic and effective approach, deployment, learning, and integration of performance excellence principles, with sustained performance improvement results, trends, and comparisons reported for most areas of importance to the organization.