What began as a “bold idea” in the 2017 Bold Ideas Challenge has now come to fruition in Fresno State’s newest employee recognition program — High Five. Click here to read about how the program began.

High Fives are easy to give — simply go to the High Five website on the Organizational Excellence webpage, click “Give a High Five” and fill out the form to send kudos to anyone on campus. Your message will be delivered straight to their inbox, and recipients will be acknowledged weekly in Campus News.

Read below 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.)

Goes Above & Beyond

Juanita Aguilar, Human Resources
First, I want to apologize for increasing Juanita's workload. Every time someone asks me a question about COVID, I tell them to talk to Juanita in HR. She was phenomenal in giving me accurate and correct information from APL to CPAL to now working. She will always be my go to person in HR. Juanita rocks!

Robert PageSmith, Advising and Career Development Center, College of Health and Human Services
Robert is always there to assist our faculty and students. He is makes sure the job gets done! As coordinator of the ACDC in CHHS, he has made it a point that the staff and student assistants understand the important work of the center. He leads in a positive manner, no matter what the situation.

Priscilla GilletteBerg - TRIO Student Support Services Disabilities
Priscilla served as lead in our search committee for an important position within our program that was vacant. Her expertise and guidance in leading the process made it successful and very enjoyable for the entire committee members. She provided valuable insights and directions to ensure the search was fair and all easy to follow. She is such a personable and hardworking colleague. I am thankful for her support for going above and beyond!

William Tubbs, Craig School of Business
He cares about helping faculty like me above and beyond the minimum. He is always available and does a high quality job.

Saved My Bacon!

Bryan Alvarado, Digital Infrastructure
Bryan is always very helpful and I appreciate his quick response on questions or help that need. He is a valuable person on the tech team.

Nathaniel Gapasin, Jordan College of Agricultural Sciences and Technology, Deans Office
Nate has been so patient so instrumental in my continued learning within Jordan College. Even with his huge workload he still takes the time to stop what he is doing to help anyone who needs help and or additional training. He is truly appreciated. Thank you Nate!

Stephanie Moua, Accounting Services
Stephanie has taken the time to continually answer my accounting needs as a grad student. She goes above and beyond to help identify issues with authorizations for tuition with the department of rehab and providing information on scholarship money. She is truly kind, informative, and extremely helpful to my growth as a student by diminishing my worries and issues with accounting services.

Provides Excellent Customer Service

Haile Fitzwater, Dean Office – Craig School of Business
Haile provides the very best customer service in all contexts! She is innovative, thoughtful, and kind. Haile handles multiple responsibilities, which pull her in different directions, and she is always respectful, patient, and professional.

Juan Solis, Technology Services
Juan has been excellent in helping our office understand DocuSign and figure out more efficient ways of working during these times of working virtually. I appreciate his efforts in not only answering my question, but also going a step beyond and saying, "here's what else we can do." His customer service and work ethic have been awesome!! Tech Services is lucky to have someone like him!