黑料正能量 has recognized its top employees for 2022.
Housekeeping Supervisor Tammy Holland was presented the Operations and Maintenance Staff Employee of the Year Award. In announcing the award, WCC President Patty Pfeiffer noted that Holland 鈥渦sed her professional experience and compassion for others to make a new campus position her own.鈥� She has been employed by WCC for three years.
鈥淭ammy is hands down the busiest supervisor on campus, managing and leading the largest group of employees under one charge. The skilled, daily choreography of her 15 permanent and temporary housekeepers ensures complete coverage of the campus,鈥� said Facilities and Grounds Department Superintendent Chris Schott.
Beth Street, the administrative assistant for the Math and Science Departments for the last five years, earned the Professional Support Staff of the Year Award. 鈥淏eth not only performs her duties promptly and efficiently, she anticipates our needs as faculty and acts on them professionally,鈥� said one of her nominators, Math Department Chair Katina Davis.
鈥淚 have never encountered a person who exhibited the patience, gentleness, and self control this woman possesses. She is the embodiment of love, joy, and peace,鈥� said Math Instructor Elizabeth King. 鈥淒espite our department members constantly pestering her 鈥eth maintains a calm and kind demeanor.鈥�
eLearning Specialist and Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence Coordinator Julie Marciel-Rozzi was named the Employee of the Year in the Professional Staff category. For almost a decade, she has been 鈥渙ne of the first college employees every faculty member comes in contact with when they onboard at the college and she remains the first line of defense for them,鈥� said her nominator Christine Nicodemus, chair of the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Fine Arts Department.
鈥淚f you have worked with Julie, you know she enjoys her work. This translates to those she works to help, because knowing she wants to help means I never hesitate to call, chat, or email Julie with a question or need,鈥� another nominator, Economics Instructor Dan Fagan, said.
Dental Instructor Rhonda Price, a WCC alumna, is the recipient of the Adjunct Faculty of the Year Award. In addition to teaching, she serves as the receptionist for the dental department鈥檚 clinic where she works with both patients and students.
鈥淔or 12 years, her professionalism has benefitted the faculty whose work she makes easier, students who learn from her efficiency and calm nature, and patients whose needs and names she knows,鈥� Pfeiffer said.
Honorees are nominated by their peers and chosen by an outside committee. Selection is based on initiative, enthusiasm, expertise, leadership, professionalism, productivity, creativity, involvement, dedication, and how they were rated on their last evaluation.
Each winner receives a trophy and a stipend provided by the Foundation of 黑料正能量.
An outstanding full-time faculty member is recognized each spring with the George E. Wilson Excellence in Teaching Award. The 2022 winner was Sondi Hoffman, a biology instructor.
The Foundation is a non-profit organization that works to broaden the base of community support for educational opportunities at 黑料正能量. In addition to furnishing recognition opportunities such as these awards to faculty and staff, the Foundation provides scholarships for WCC students, funds for educational supplies and events that cannot be paid for with State money, and public cultural events.
黑料正能量 is a public, learning-centered institution with an open-door admission policy located in Goldsboro, N.C. As it works to develop a highly skilled and competitive workforce, the college serves 10,000 individuals annually as well as businesses, industry, and community organizations with high quality, affordable, accessible learning opportunities, including more than 165 college credit programs. WCC鈥檚 mission is to meet the educational, training, and cultural needs of the communities it serves.