From Mary Steiner (ADMIN): Congratulations to academic advisor Eva Lacy for being recognized as the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Champion at the campuswide Student Success Community Annual Conference last week! Congratulations also to the following nominees from our Student Success and Academic Advising team:
- Mackenzie Hatcher and Jeremy Peña: Outstanding New Member of the Academic Advising Community
- Kim Goho, Erin Jerick, Eva Lacy and Alex Plaut: Outstanding Experienced Member of the Academic Advising Community
From Ayleen Perez (CRSA/CEAE): The Construction Safety Research Alliance holds five quarterly research team meetings on campus. Each team has 20-something members who fly into town from all over North America to attend their team's meeting in person. We were getting ready to launch two new research projects the week of Feb. 12 and we ended up assembling teams that were larger than we had planned so the meeting rooms we had reserved would no longer be suitable! It was Friday, Jan. 19! The meetings were less than a month away and we needed to reserve two rooms for 35 to 38 people to meet from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m., and they had to have the right specs (AV, allow catering, etc). Rebecca Rico happened to send me a Teams message to say “hello” and I explained to her the mission I was on! She immediately logged into EMS to help me search. A couple of hours later she let me know she had moved the Faculty Stories event from its usual home in the Discovery Learning Center so that the CSRA could use the space which was bigger than what they truly needed. Now, this would have come with an inconvenience to her and the rest of the team that hosts Faculty Stories, but she said it would be a bigger inconvenience if the CSRA couldn't reserve the space they needed, and everyone was on board. She also reserved another room that I had been told was not available! The meetings came around and the CSRA was able to comfortably welcome 57 new team members to our research community. Thank you, CEAE Faculty Stories crew and participants for your flexibility and thank you, Rebecca, for being an amazing colleague and reminding us that helping each other, even across teams and departments, is essential to our organization's growth. I look back at that Friday and instead of remembering stress, I remember I was helped.
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