Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs Reed Dasenbrock has announced the 2007 Outstanding Staff and Workgroup Award winners. They are: Outstanding Work Group - Center For Academic Programs Support (CAPS) and Outstanding Staff - Amy Jameson, Shirley Rey Lovato and Sandra Ortiz. A reception to honor the winners will be held in the Fiesta Room in the Student Union Building Friday, April 27, from 3 to 5 p.m.
Outstanding Work Group Award
Center For Academic Programs Support (CAPS)
Year after year, CAPS operates one of the most sophisticated and successful student employment programs at UNM. They utilize more than 80 tutors at both the undergraduate and graduate level providing them with extensive training in a highly structured work setting.
During the last review period, CAPS tutors provided over 30,000 contact hours of academic support to nearly 4,000 UNM students. One year ago when a basement fire closed Zimmerman Library just two weeks before finals, the CAPS staff did their final exam tutoring in borrowed space at the SUB and empty classrooms all over campus.
During the summer they set up field operations in Mitchell Hall and served as many students there as they had the previous year. Excellence, professionalism, creativity and initiative and a devotion to student success – all these University values have been manifested in special ways by the CAPS staff and students during this academic year.
Outstanding Staff Awards
Sandra Ortiz, office manager, physics and astronomy
Ortiz supervises all aspects of the front office operation. As supervisor, she deals with a broad spectrum of internal and external customers -- from students at all levels to other staff, as well as diverse faculty members including many foreign visitors -- on a regular basis. Ortiz is friendly, organized and very professional -- all positive characteristics which have been a trademark in various positions she has held in the department for approximately 20 years.
Amy Jameson, department administrator, English
Jameson has contributed to the success of the English Department in every possible way. Jameson manages the entire departmental office including budgets, departmental procedures and records. She supervises a staff that is highly varied from student employees to program coordinators to graduate and undergraduate advisors.
Jameson constantly strives for excellence. Her exceptional talents and capabilities as well as her initiative and creativity have had a significant impact on students, faculty and staff. Jameson is a model of integrity and professionalism. Her administrative talents and interpersonal skills have provided a model for harmonious interrelationships among staff and faculty alike.
Shirley Rey Lovato, department administrator, communication and journalism
Lovato is the department administrator in Communication and Journalism. Her duties include managing daily administrative operations of the department. She has been instrumental in helping the department accomplish its goals throughout the year.
Lovato is a leader and team player that will do whatever the department needs. She is the consummate professional and plays a critical role to the mission and daily function of the department.
About the Awards
Each spring semester of the academic year, the Provost presents an annual award to outstanding individual staff and a workgroup at the University of New Mexico who have provided extraordinary service. The winners have demonstrated extraordinary achievement in service to UNM and the community. They have exemplified university values including excellence, integrity and professionalism, diversity within the academic community, creativity and initiative, academic freedom, and access and student success. They also have contributed substantially to respective team and departmental accomplishments.
Media Contact: Steve Carr, (505) 277-1821; e-mail: scarr@unm.edu
Posted by scarr at April 26, 2007 02:14 PM