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

High Fives are easy to give — simply click “Give a High Five” and fill out the form for a faculty or staff member only. Your message will be delivered straight to the recipient's inbox, and they will be acknowledged weekly in Campus News.

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

Rowan Chng, University Business Center
Rowan helped me facilitate a training seminar with Fresno County public health employees. He went above and beyond, even going into work early to prepare materials that we needed.

Debra Neufeld, Division of Graduate Studies
Debbie, thank you for everything you did to support the restructuring of the web presence of the Division of Graduate Studies. I know this was a lot of work — and you did it in a short turnaround time. Thank you.

Fatih Yenen, Technology Services
Fatih, thank you. You moved so quickly to help us restructure the Division of Graduate Studies web presence. I so appreciate that you were able to get everything migrated and set up so incredibly quickly.

Provided Excellent Customer Service

Gina Tamez, Accounting Services
Gina has been really helpful in all that she does from handling the customer service area as a lead and for helping me with any questions I may have throughout the years I have been here. I am very appreciative to have someone like her on our team.

Marie Tongson-Fernandez, Office of Instructional Effectiveness
Marie has been incredibly helpful and patient working with our team, consistently accommodating our requests for updates and changes to ensure the successful launch of our survey. She exemplifies what it means to be a collaborative and helpful colleague. Thank you, Marie.

Saved My Bacon

Angelica Miramontes, College of Social Sciences, Dean's Office
The start of each semester, particularly the spring semester, is always challenging and busy for all. Angelica quite literally saved my bacon. She took time out of her own day to assist me with a very large portion of a task that I was having difficulties completing on my own. She took a large weight off of my shoulders and helped me make sure the task was completed in a timely manner. Thank you very much for your kindness and your willingness to always assist anyone — even if it means adding to your own plate. You are the best.

Modeled Principles of Community

Division of Graduate Studies
Thank you to everyone in the Division of Graduate Studies. Your kindness and collaboration over the past couple of weeks have been absolutely awesome. Thank you for everything you have done to support our students, our programs and our faculty.