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

Esmeralda Cruz, Human Resources
Esmeralda went above and beyond in assisting me to get the fee waiver recognized and applied at one of our sister campuses. She was tenacious and helped get things pushed through. I really appreciated the effort she made. Thank you, Esmeralda!

Anna Andalon, Accounting Services
Anna, we truly appreciate your patience and responsiveness in processing a direct pay form to pay the Foundation. We do not process many state expenses since we process most of our expenses via our nonprofit funds. Therefore, we were new to P2P and you took the extra time to look at the back end and help us process the payment. I just want you to know that you are appreciated!

Esther Gonzalez, Administrative Services
I just wanted to give Esther a shoutout for going above and beyond to help me find another staff member from her division. Her willingness to lend a hand made a difference, and I truly appreciate it. Thanks for being so great to work with, Esther!

Saved my Bacon

Mike Mize, Technology
I needed to update my Google Groups and deleted the old one. Big mistake, since I needed to do a large email to almost 700 teachers throughout the state on my Math Science Teacher Initiative database in advance of the first CSET Science Workshop. Mike fixed the problem. My email blast was sent just before I wrote this. In addition, Mike understood my situation and went "above and beyond" to help me out.