Staff Award

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We are pleased to announce that Ms. Rolanda Smith was the first recipient of the new Wonderful Outstanding Worker (WOW) award.

The recently established WOW award is to reward and recognize staff members for excellence in their work and to create and sustain a workplace culture committed to achievement and pride.  Recipients of this quarterly award will receive a certificate and $200.  This award will be given quarterly to strong and consistent performers who maintain a high level of productivity and quality of work; sustain excellence in overall job performance and responsibilities; display exceptional dependability/reliability; demonstrate a cooperative and positive attitude; go the extra mile; do something nice and unexpected.

Rolanda is a Fiscal Associate in the department and handles all human resource activities, purchasing, procurement as well as travel, reimbursement and expenses.  Some of the comments supporting Rolanda for the award are:

  • the best we can get as an exemplary staff
  • she has done a great job getting up to speed
  • quick and reliable processing of travel and purchase orders
  • quick processing a substantial amount of GRA appointments and review letters
  • works hard and deals with faculty and graduate students
  • for processing huge volumes of HR data and doing it with a smile
  • quickly assisted me in purchasing voting box for WOW award
  • excellent in helping process student appointments, travel requests, and reimbursements - makes these things move smoothly through the system
  • Rolanda has always helped me with travel
  • is a quick worker and always happy to help

Congratulations on a job well-done, Rolanda!

Information about the WOW award and nomination forms can be found here.

Category: Administration