Kudos

Every other month, SoACE members have the opportunity to submit their anonymous Kudos to colleagues and organizations that have gone above and beyond in the office, as part of a professional association, or in other ways that make life better for others.

Kyle S. Poe, University of Georgia
Appreciating Kyle for presenting “Lets Talk About Just Career Work.” He discussed how the career work we do has on impact on justice. He provided historical context and a framework to inspire us as an office, and individually, to reflect about how we can approach our work in a social justice direction. The presentation allowed time to reflect of what we are successfully doing correctly and where opportunities lie to improve. Great job Kyle for bringing this information into our office.

Cassidy Gourley, Tiffany Griffith, Rachel Koepsel, & Sammie Walker Herrera, University of Florida
Kudos to our Healthcare Conference team at UF! They converted a fully in-person conference supporting students learning about the diversity of healthcare careers to a virtual format. Most of the student attendees participated in multiple programs hosted over this 3-day professional development experience. Great job to this team in recruiting amazing guest speakers, employers, and presenters for Skills Labs!

LadyStacie Rimes-Boyd, Michelle McWilliams, Katlyn Alves & Sylvia Garza, Trinity University
Kudos to LadyStacie Rimes-Boyd, Michelle McWilliams, Katlyn Alves, and Sylvia Garza for finding the most creative ways to keep Trinity’s team connected in a virtual world!

Kertesha Riley, Katie Wiley and Alexis Andershock, University of Tennessee Center for Career Development
Thank you to our amazing STEM/Ag related career coaches for all of their creating programming this fall. Their dedication to serving and supporting students is clearly evident!

Interested in submitting kudos to a colleague or organization for the next kudos post? Look for the submission link in future SoACE emails and SoACE Slack channels next month!

Every other month, SoACE members have the opportunity to submit their anonymous Kudos to colleagues and organizations that have gone above and beyond in the office, as part of a professional association, or in other ways that make life better for others.

Terrence (Scott) Green, Georgia Tech Career Center – Application Support and Analyst Lead

Scott has worked 7+ years with the Office of Undergraduate Education at Georgia Tech and in the Career Center. Scott joined Georgia Tech in 1994, and has over 25 years experience in the career services field beginning with the Division of Professional Practice and currently with the Center for Career Discovery and Development. He has a broad range of information technology support experience, with previous employment with both IBM and the Georgia Pacific Corporation. He continually assists with all tech based needs in the Career Center with such a large amount of positivity and inspiring energy. His commitment to student and employer success makes a large impact on our team and motivates the Career Center to innovatively move forward in a virtual world.

Lisa Bundrick & Dave Sargent, Clemson University

Lisa and Dave worked tirelessly to vet the new virtual career fair platform recently released by Symplicity, and they’ve planned three practice events for our employers to gain familiarity with the system. The feedback from our employer partners has been tremendous, and Lisa and Dave have already identified and addressed several bugs that could have prevented employers from connecting with our students. Major kudos, you two!!!

Keyara Stevenson, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University Office of Career Services

Thank you for organizing and managing two student and employer engagement events over the summer within a week of each event. There was a great turnout by students and employers. I appreciate your creativity and dedication to our students!

Dr. Susan McCracken, Appalachian State Career Development Center

I would like to acknowledge and recognize the incredible hard work, flexibility, and dedication to students displayed by the team at the Career Development Center at Appalachian State University. Dr. McCracken and her team of Career Coaches, Employment Relations, Student Employment & Internships, Career Exploration, and the Career Guides transitioned seamlessly into an online delivery system, created new and exciting content for our students to enjoy, and increased student engagement during a time when the campus itself was closed. Thank you for everything you do for our students!

Danielle Golinski, Elon University

Great job organizing the SOACE Technology Boot Camp! And for all you do – you rock!!

Kelli Morris, Calhoun Community College

Kudos for being a great leader with exceptional leadership qualities.

Miriam Ortega, Oklahoma City University

I want to give Kudos to my Assistant Director Miriam Ortega. She started her position just 3 weeks before we were evacuated from campus because of Covid-19. During this time she continued to learn about her position and work from home doing zoom interviews for a group of our dance students. She never complained and always asked what she could do to be more effective in her position. When we returned to campus in mid-July she had created new marketing strategies for our department and has created some of the best content our office has ever had! I just want her to know I appreciate her and I am happy to have her on my team!

Chad Anglin, Kelsie Miner, Roberta Douglas, Justin Siler, Kristen McCoy- Oklahoma State University

Thank you for a great job with our virtual career fairs this fall!

Toria Carter, University of Georgia

I appreciate the willingness to train me on a system that most already know so well. You are a star. Thank you for your servant leadership when others are not looking.

Camille Liverpool, University of Georgia

I appreciate you being on top of things and your organizational skills are amazing. Thank you for being one step ahead.

Renard Miles, The College of William and Mary

Thank you for your work with the Employer Relations KG and the Programs Committee. I appreciate your efforts to help provide excellent programming for our members throughout the year and for the annual conference. Great job!

Helen Powers, University of South Carolina

Thank you for your leadership of the Programs Committee for the Annual Conference. I am excited about the great programming that you and the Program Proposal Review Committee have lined up. Great work!

Mark Colvenbach, University of Tampa

Thank you for all of the great work you have done to get our new Sponsorship Committee up and running. I am eager to see how the new annual sponsorship model impacts SoACE in the future. Great job!

Emmanuela Stanislaus, Florida International University

Thank you for leading our Employer Engagement Taskforce! I am thrilled to see the progress that the group is making to engage our current employers and recruit new employers to SoACE! Keep up the great work!

Danielle Golinski, Elon University / Technology KG Boot Camp Chair

Congratulations to the amazing Danielle Golinski for chairing and planning the best Technology Boot Camp to date! Thank you for all your dedication and to everyone else (including cmcglobal) who helped make the event a success!

Kim Satz, Texas Christian University

Thank you for your leadership and hard work planning not one, but TWO Employer Relations Summits…one in-person that couldn’t happen and one virtual! The first (and hopefully last) virtual ER Summit was a huge success with great speakers and fun engagement (go DJ cmcglobal). Congratulations!

Beth Mannella, Elon University

Congratulations on planning an informative and fun Employer Relations Summit! After seeing you in action, I have every confidence that the 2021 ER Summit will be a huge success under your leadership. I look forward to working with you, Matt, Tasha, Allison, Charles, Rachel, Jay, Alicia, Natalie, Candiss, and Daisy in the year ahead!

Hunter Pritchard, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Great job to Hunter Pritchard on the Accounting Career Fair Week. She did an outstanding job managing the details of many events in a brand new, and much more complex, format. It was a lot more work than normal and it was pulled off beautifully. Kudos!

Mary Mahoney and Leslie Walton, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Thank you to Mary and Leslie for leading our team through the transition to virtual job fairs this fall. The work you are doing to make sure employers, students, and staff are well-trained and comfortable on the system is much appreciated!

Katie Wiley & Njyhalo Pavati, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Thank you Katie and Njyhalo for developing a diversity scorecard the the center will use with employers. Your work and leadership on this important initiative is appreciated.

Simone Stewart, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Thank you to Simone for working with technology students to create a Virtual Career Coach course on Canvas. Your work will help provide an outstanding resource to faculty and students.

Renard Miles, William & Mary Cohen Career Center

Congratulations to Renard Miles for landing a job at William & Mary as Director, Employer Engagement & Programming! Your future looks so bright and it’s a sincere pleasure to work with you on the ERKG. Thanks for all that you do!

Emmanuela Stanistlaus, Ph.D., Florida International University
HUGE CONGRATS to Dr. Emmanuela Stanislaus for successfully defending her dissertation and becoming a Doctor of Philosophy in Higher Education Administration!

Doris Alcivar, University of Central Florida

Kudos to Doris for a) becoming Dr. Doris Alcivar, and b) successfully filling all of the open leadership positions available in the Employer Knowledge Group! Thank you for stepping up to serve as Chair – you are doing a phenomenal job!

Jin Kim and the rest of the SoACE Social Media Committee, The University of Tampa

Kudos to Jin and his team for doing an outstanding job with social media for SoACE! You all are rock stars!

Ommy Pearson, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

I don’t know what we would do without you! Thank you for everything you do to help make our jobs easier, even when it isn’t necessarily easy for you. The team, our students, and our faculty are so happy with the Handshake Experiences Workflow – thank you for all of your blood, sweat, and tears…you are just phenomenal!

Valerie Mandel and Indira Diaz, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

Thank you both for your extra hard work and dedication to making our upcoming virtual career expo a success! It means the world that you care so much about the student experience and are going far above and beyond to ensure we have a great event. I am grateful.

Sandi Ohman, Erin Minta, Ryan Mazon, and Tommey Liang, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

Kudos for all of the above and beyond things you have done since the start of the pandemic to provide education and programming to our students and outreach to employers. I know this year hasn’t been easy and a lot has been asked of you. You have come up with creative ideas for programming, technology, outreach, and social media. You are all absolutely amazing!

Sally Richards, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

Kudos to you for working long hours to help our interns during a time of crisis. Thank you for dedicating yourself to our students and the team, and for all of your work to get the Handshake Experiences Workflow off the ground. I appreciate you so much!

Lauren Burmester, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

Kudos for starting your doctorate degree and for all of the extra hours you are putting in to teach additional sections of AS 380 to our students so they will be prepared for this fierce job market. Your work is so important and appreciated!

Christie Miller, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

Kudos for all that you have accomplished over the last year to get our Eagle Elevate program up and running! You are exceeding every expectation to raise awareness of the career readiness competencies on our campus. Thank you for working closely with the team and for being part of our team. I can’t wait to see what is yet to come.

Erin Minta, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

Kudos to Erin for giving one of the best breakout sessions I’ve ever attended, with Dr. Jay Pembridge at the FloridaACE Virtual Conference! The work that you accomplished this past year on the NCAA grant with Dr. Pembridge, Dr. Leroy Long, and Dr. Matthew Verleger was outstanding! Thank you for all of your contributions to the career readiness initiatives on campus.

Interested in submitting kudos to a colleague or organization for the next kudos post? Look for the submission link in future SoACE emails and SoACE Slack channels next month!

Every other month, SoACE members have the opportunity to submit their anonymous Kudos to colleagues and organizations that have gone above and beyond in the office, as part of a professional association, or in other ways that make life better for others.

Charlie Wilder, Auburn University

Charlie, thank you for leading SoACE during this uncertain time in our world. Your ability to listen to the members and board and make decisions in the best of the entire organization is admirable. Thank you for all that you have done for SoACE this year!

Alaina Rahaim, The University of Tampa

Alaina! Congratulations on your 2 year work anniversary at The University of Tampa! I can’t wait to see all the new amazing things you do for your institution!

Teri-Anne Brennan, Enterprise

Teri-Anne led the FloridaACE Annual Conference team in turning a 2.5-day in-person conference into a dynamic, useful, fun, and energizing virtual conference within a very short timeframe. All presenters trained ahead of time on the platform in a dry run. Teri-Anne and the team did all this amazing attitude and warmth. Well done!

Alicia Smyth, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

Congratulations to Alicia Smyth, the 2020 FloridaACE Brownlee Award winner! The John T. Brownlee Award is the organization’s highest honor and is awarded to members who have made significant contributions to FloridaACE. The team at ERAU-Daytona Beach is grateful and proud to serve alongside a leader like Alicia!

SoACE Employer Relations Summit Planning Committee

Well done on planning an engaging and informative virtual Employer Relations Summit!

Njyhalo Pavati, University of Tennessee- Knoxville

Congratulations on being named President Elect for the Tennessee Association for College and Employers! You will do great in this well deserved role!

Interested in submitting kudos to a colleague or organization for the next kudos post? Look for the submission link in future SoACE emails and SoACE Slack channels.