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April 7, 2006

UNM Provost's Office Recognizes Outstanding Staff and Workgroup

The University of New Mexico 's Provost's Committee for Staff (PCS) announced the 2006 Provost's Outstanding Staff awards at a ceremony honoring the recipients recently. Outstanding individual staff awardees include: Lloyd Krug, accounting technician, Bursar's office; Delia Halona, administrative assistant, Native American Studies program; and Ken Martinez, lab supervisor, Civil Engineering. In addition, the outstanding workgroup honored included staff and faculty at the Centennial Science and Engineering Library .

Centennial Science and Engineering Library staff and faculty include: Donna Cromer, Christy Crowley, George Farr, Brian Freels-Stendel, Linda Heitkamp, Bruce Neville, Anne Schultz, Jacqueline Shane; Bryan Stoneburner, Robert Wiberg, Mary Wyant, Pauline Padilla and Caroline Sanchez.

“These awards are really important to staff and they provide a way of honoring and recognizing targeted and hardworking staff,” said Reed Dasenbrock, provost and executive vice president for Academic Affairs. "The team award is comparatively unique and unusual in recognizing a group that works together. Their quick thinking and hard work during the flooding of the Centennial Science and Engineering Library is a great example of that teamwork."

The PCS organizes and coordinates the annual Outstanding Staff awards program and recommends candidates to the provost, who then makes the final decision on the awardees. Nominations and subsequent selections were based on extraordinary service including going beyond the duties listed in the job description in service to UNM and or the community; University values, including excellence, integrity and professionalism, diversity within academic community, creativity and initiative, academic freedom and student success; and substantial contribution to significant team or department accomplishment.

The PCS was organized and formed in 1989 to assist the provost in determining what activities would provide UNM staff with opportunities for growth, recognition and service.

 

 

 


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