Employee Recognition Awards
Fall Employee Recognition Award Winners
l-r: Kelly Dyer, Renata Ashe-Warren, Janet Dinh
Employee Recognition Awards for fall 2011
Part-time Employee
This part-time instructor is known for working with energy and passion, always making her students the top priority. This special faculty member has taught at CPCC for 14 years and has always been meticulous and thoughtful in her planning. She is gifted at using her wide variety of teaching styles to meet the needs of her students who have different cultural backgrounds as well as a wide range of educational and personal goals. She works tirelessly for their success.
Her students wanted to support her nomination and wrote, “We can ask her for help when we don’t understand. We have had many helpful lessons and are so grateful to her.”
Janet Dinh is a professional and caring ESL instructor.
Classified Staff
This member of the Classified Staff is a true professional who understands her job and how it relates to the mission of the College. This winner performs her many responsibilities with skill, empathy, and enthusiasm and is able to remain calm when things may seem to be falling apart.
Her style is proactive and anticipatory, as she ensures that potential problems are avoided by addressing issues early and quickly. She is able to not only identify a problem, but also simultaneously to offer a potential solution. She is always looking for ways to improve her job skills and willingly volunteers to take on additional responsibilities.
She is a team player who contributes to great working environment at the Harper Campus, and is an active leader in the Classified Staff Council. But above all else, Renata Ashe-Warren looks out for our students and always keeps their best interests at heart.
Administrator/Professional Staff
This winner was characterized as the type of employee that everyone wants working in his or her office. She is intelligent, optimistic, hardworking, innovative, and incredibly patient. She has demonstrated the ability to lead large projects and is able to understand the most complex processes. Skillful at diffusing potentially volatile situations, she instills tranquility and order, often with her sense of humor.
As a strong advocate for students, she allows them to be heard. One student sent a letter to the College describing a situation when he was down to only $1.67, and she quickly helped him develop an action plan until his financial issues had been resolved.
He said, “I cannot impart to you the magnitude of the service that she has done for both my son and me as a single dad. Our utilities remained on, food could be purchased again, and my education was able to continue. That increase in stability, and decrease in uncertainty, improved the total quality of life for my family. These results are all due to the fact that one person was willing to sit down and listen to the ranting of a frantic student. Because of her, I am able to continue my journey to improve my life and that of my son in a substantive and meaningful way. In my eyes, Kelly Dyer is a living example of CPCC’s values.”
Instructor
The faculty member selected for recognition this semester pushes her students to reach or go beyond the bar. While she has compassion for her students, she does not let them settle for less than they are able to accomplish. Her division director said that she has brought disciplined intensity to the department and has used multiple strategies to improve student success.
As a learner herself, she has great curiosity and is always eager to develop new strategies. She has incorporated these innovations into her curriculum and worked diligently developing extraordinary online resources for her classes. Aspiring to excellence is the common goal she has for herself and her students. As one student said, “I cannot express the amount of gratitude I have for the efforts of Sofiya Ivanova.
