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

Margarita Adona, University Marketing and Communications
Margarita goes above and beyond with supporting her team. Anytime I need to coordinate with her to process a request, she makes sure that it is completed appropriately. Thank you, Margarita, for your help.

Chris Beck, College of Health and Human Services, Advising and Career Development Center
Chris is an amazing counselor who goes above and beyond when asked to help. He stepped up his game when we needed something updated and submitted in less than an hour's time. I couldn't have completed it without his help. I appreciate him very much!

Cathy Legarretta, Payroll Services
Thank you for always going above and beyond to help us work more efficiently. Your dedication to improving our processes, fixing spreadsheets, macros, and streamlining payroll operations doesn’t go unnoticed by us. You consistently find solutions, and your ability to troubleshoot and "just get it done" has made a huge difference in keeping everything running smoothly. We truly appreciate your expertise, drive, and willingness to dive in and make things better for all of us. You’re an essential manager and part of our team, and we’re lucky to have you! Your Payroll Services team.

Provides Excellent Customer Services

Curtis Witherspoon, Student Life-Black Student Success Initiative
Curtis demonstrated exceptional interpersonal skills, supporting our unit with Dogs Days and the department through the Bulldog Support Team. It has been an honor to watch him grow those connections with our students. Congratulations on building capacity and student success centered.

Saved My Bacon

Racheal Freeman, Facilities Management
Racheal resolved a door/lock issue with a simple and clever solution. We appreciate the time she took to resolve the problem!

Marie Tongson-Fernandez, Institutional Effectiveness
Marie has curated a data collection tool for an upcoming conference that will help us capture data in a manageable way and draw an analysis from it easily — an expert in her field, and I am very proud to collaborate with her.