Give your colleagues a “High Five” for things such as excellent customer service, “saving my bacon” and going above and beyond.

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Continue below to read about how your colleagues are going above and beyond to help the campus community.

(Note: Campus News edited comments only for misspellings and missing or incomplete words. They appear mostly as written for each employee.)

Works Above and Beyond

Andrew Esguerra, University Marketing and Communications
A huge shoutout to the awesome Staff Assembly Executive Committee, especially Andrew. You truly helped make our April Red Friday event a success. We can’t thank you enough for all your hard work, you are all the best!

Angelica Miramontes, College of Social Sciences
Thank you, Angelica, for all the work you did this week to make sure that our Model UN students were supported in their competition. I appreciate all the extra steps you took to make sure that they had the support they needed to travel and eat while competing!

Casey Schramm, Facilities Management
Casey took great care with a difficult task that took many hours to complete. His collaboration with another team was a great example of teamwork and patience. Thank you for your great work, Casey!

Office of Institutional Effectiveness
I want to give a big shoutout to our amazing OIE team: AVP Dr. George Still, who emceed Red Friday, along with Hongtao, Chris, Kyle, Cory, Celeste, Marie and Simran. Our April Red Friday event wouldn’t have been a success without each of you. Special thanks to Simran for her incredible organizing skills — thank you for keeping everything on track. You all rock!

Saved My Bacon

Robert Pagesmith, Advising and Career Development Center, College of Health and Human Services
Provided great service when I was desperate. He was able to fine tune a program proposal so we could move forward with the approval process.

Provides Excellent Customer Service

Denise Pearcy, Printing Services
Denise went above and beyond to help us complete an order that was proving to be more work than expected. After encountering issues with some of the products we wanted, Denise worked hard to find a solution that worked for us. We were so happy with the final product. Thank you, Denise!