KUDOS

Kudos to Shelly Blanchette for her work on the CLEP language testing initiative in collaboration with the Testing Centers. Students have earned up to 16 credit hours towards their degree and for most students this changed their time to completion!

Kudos to Gina Crance for creating the mask slogan You Belong at HACC. It has done a great deal to create a buzz around belonging and shifting the HACC culture to one of inclusion and belonging.

Kudos to Cindy Strawbridge, Merrick Green, and Maria Salinas for creating HACC’s newest affinity groups; Student Veterans of America (SVA) and Latinos Unidos.

Kudos to Bree Bolin for working so diligently and thoroughly to track all the paperwork necessary to make certain we are all compliant with the PA Act 15 clearances.

Kudos to Valerie Gray, Professor of English, for being selected to present “Providing Students with Opportunities to Create Agency in the Classroom” at the NISOD Annual Fall Virtual Conference on Oct. 20-22, 2021 at https://www.nisod.org/virtual-events/conference/

Kudos and a big shout-out to Terry Sholansky for her dedication to the safety of HACC students, faculty and staff as we continue to navigate through all the COVID requirements and changes.

Kudos to our Healthcare Training and Education students who have been extremely patient and understanding of the COVID regulations and requirements that the college has had to implement in order to keep them safe.

Kudos to the Healthcare Training and Education staff (Maureen Fey, Jackie Foster, Sabrina Glennon, Nina Kottcamp, Amy Beth Martin, Jean Peterson, Emanda Reiner and Candice Wright) who have weathered the countless COVID-related class changes and cancellations over the last 18 months. Your commitment to the department and the college do not go unrecognized! Thank you!

Kudos to Aaron LeFevre for writing a bookstore closing Standard Operating Procedure and making himself available during his off hours to assist when needed.

Kudos to Jay Lohman and Cloyd Buckley from Facilities for helping maintain the food service equipment used on a weekly basis to provide healthy and attractive meals at an affordable cost for our students and staff who are on campus.

Kudos to Chef Tom Long for starting his workday extra early on Mondays and Wednesdays so that all of the bookstores can have fresh food options for students and employees.

Kudos to Ashley Kiers and Bonnie Humes, new bookstore employees. Welcome to the team!

Kudos to Bookstore team members, Matthew Nowik and Ashley Kiers for serving on the HACC Scholarship Review Committee.

Kudos to Branden Powell, for his assistance at the Lancaster Bookstore to bring the workstations back up to par.

Kudos to Michael Homoki and Chris Smolinski of HawkTech for their great customer service in helping students get their technology purchases in a timely manner.

Kudos to the Accounts Payable team for working with the bookstore team in getting invoices paid in a timely manner.

Kudos to Chef Tom, Chef Steve and the entire bookstore team for their hard work and dedication to meet the needs of our students during the pandemic. #HACCYeah.

Kudos to Danielle Adams and Christina Kelley for being the creative geniuses behind Dr. Ski’s recent bike ride!

Kudos to Danielle Adams and Desovia Musson for their stellar work on the return-to-campus Google site!

Kudos to the admissions counselors for the impactful on-campus appointments and tours they are leading!

Kudos to those colleagues who helped to plan the webinar for high school partners, students and parents! They are Desovia Musson, Tim Barshinger, Kylynn Becker, Megan Hoose, Stepheni Anderson, Radecka Appiah-Padi, Dr. Chrissy Davis and Dr. Ski. Thank you, colleagues!

Kudos to HACC hero, Shawne Hargis, Harrisburg Campus custodial supervisor. Shawne joined HACC during the pandemic and managed all of the challenges with experience, care and kindness. She is an all-around facilities ROCK STAR, tremendously reliable and serves as the glue that keeps the ship together and moving forward. Her team has experienced loss in a variety of ways recently and she has been a great leader and comfort to them.

Kudos to the Facilities Leadership Team, Nicia Hollman, Gretchen McDonel, Shawne Hargis, Dave Edwards, Rod Bates, Tom Frye, Jay Lohman and Randall Campbell for participating in a working retreat recommitting to team leadership, performance goals and the Master Planning process.

Kudos to Cheryl Isaac! On Sept. 13, she began her new position as HACC’s first-ever executive director of community engagement. #HACCyeah

Kudos to Christina Kelley! At the request of a donor, Christina wrote a six-figure grant proposal within 48 hours – record time. #ThatIsHowWeRoll

Kudos to Stepheni Anderson for her leadership with planning a webinar for our high school partners, students, parents and superintendents!

Kudos to the IMC team for their hard work in distributing weekly emails to thousands of students and employees! They are “Oz.” Their work behind the “curtain” is quite amazing.

Kudos to Nakia Eckert and Maria Salinas! The OCA team enjoys our partnership!

Kudos to Amanda Wilkins for her partnership with teaching OCA colleagues how to “clap back” against racists, white supremacists and bigots!

Kudos to Amanda Wilkins! A member of the OCA team was out of the office unexpectedly. Linnie Carter texted Amanda W. to handle a project. Her response? “I am on it!” And then she ROCKED the project. She has been a blessing to HACC since day one. Thank you again, Amanda!

Kudos to Veronica Thomas-Gladden for being remarkable!

Kudos to Jill Matolyak for serving our future international students with professionalism, care, patience and empathy!

Kudos to the Library Public Services team for welcoming students back to campus to our new Learning Commons Library spaces.

Kudos to the Technology Loan Team: Mary Wallick, Kathleen Frederick, Zack Laurence, Borany Kanal-Scott and Bernadette Lynch for celebrating serving over 1,000 student with technology assistance. This was a complete team effort by all of the Library Public Services and User Support teams who began this project March 2020 when we first went remote. 1,010 students have been helped toward degree completion and success through the loan of computers, hotspots, webcams, MAC devices and calculators.

Kudos to Meriah Swope For helping us realize the newly implemented online reservation system for our library study rooms. The students LOVE it!

Kudos to Matthew Gibson for continuing to go above and beyond in support of our students with issues they experience within our virtual computer labs.

Kudos to Michael Brommer for helping our faculty and students with their Brightspace (D2L) needs in a timely manner and in some cases, after hours.

Kudos to the System Administration Team: Michael Brommer, Matthew Gibson, Cody Neff, Russ Shader, Trevor Stynes for quickly addressing, correcting and completing the recent increase of System Access Requests (SARs) leading up to the start of the Fall 2021 semester. The team completed over 60 SARs in the weeks leading into the Fall 2021 semester.

Kudos to the User Support team for settling into their new spaces in the Learning Commons areas and becoming more accessible to our students, faculty and staff. Also, kudos to the team for checking all classrooms on campus to ensure the technology was functioning properly prior to the start of the Fall semester. And I could not forget to thank the User Support and the Tech Loan team for their excellent work on the Technology Assistance Program. So much time is put into this initiative by both teams. Great team work everyone!

Kudos to Vicki Van Hise, Erin Rose, Melissa Ferguson, Meredith Jenkins, and Randy Morrow for the implementation of the Accommodate system to automate the business processes of the Student Access Services team.

Kudos to the Degree Works project team for all the effort preparing for the launch of the new system and processes. This is a heavy lift and you are doing a great job!

Kudos to Kim Kelsey, Amanda Kerstetter, Bonnie Thomas, Seth Chevalier, and Larry Franklin for providing a meaningful job shadow in data analysis and database administration to a HACC student. What a wonderful opportunity to view our role from a new perspective!

Kudos to Kylynn Becker, Theresa Richwine, Travis Mast, and Matt Gordon for the upgrade of the Ellucian CRM Recruit.

Kudos to Denise Suwanrut for being an integral part of the enterprise services team!

Kudos to the Enterprise Services department for your expertise and hard work! Your contributions and dedication are so appreciated.

Kudos to the Tutoring Team for venturing back to campus to support tutors and students in f2f classes.

Kudos to Dave Shaffer for his work and leadership qualities he showed in a time of need. The team looks up to you for your dedication and work ethic.

Kudos to Melvin (Todd) Price for doing a fantastic job with the camera installation and for his outstanding performance. We are truly grateful to have you.

Kudos to the Network and Telecommunications team for their hard work, self-motivation, dedication, and diligence. Thank you for doing a great job!

Kudos to Kevin Nutt for the amazing effort he puts forward in promoting Cybersecurity Awareness Month. He has truly been a critical part of the effort to raise cybersecurity awareness across the college over the last few years. Thank you!

Kudos to Seth Chevalier, Randy Morrow, Kim Kelsey, and Meredith Jenkins for completing the updates to the data warehouse to add division and department reflecting the One College structure. Thank you for your great teamwork!

Kudos to the The Institutional Reporting team: Kim Kelsey, Amanda Kerstetter, and Bonnie Thomas for all of their work supporting reporting, research, and surveys.

Kudos to the Testing team for for navigating various testing platforms, technologies, and requests, and always providing exceptional service to students and faculty.

Kudos to Chhatra Subedi for for his work on the Universal Test Request form, Navigate scheduling and RegisterBlast, allowing for efficient processes for staff, faculty and students.

Kudos to Gail Crum for always being the ATI “go-to” person for testing.

Kudos to Marsha Leonard for her support and collaboration during the transition to the Universal Test Request form.

Kudos to Trevor Stynes for his work in assisting our colleagues in the Client Services team. Your assistance has been greatly appreciated by both the Client Services and System Administration teams!

Kudos to the HACC Tutors! To the 73 Tutors for supporting 2,086 visits in less than 2 months from 813 HACC Students! This is a 20.5% increase in visits from this same time last year! Academic Coaching has seen 19 visits / Integrated Class Tutors have had 86 visits during designated hours / Facilitated Study Groups have received 78 visits / Teas Study Group has welcomed students for 99 visits / HACC's Online Writing Lab has reviewed 480 papers with 13 Zoom follow-up visits / Students have visited the Drop-in Session for Tutoring 599 times and received moderator support an additional 23 times / Students have made 689 appointments with tutors for evening hours and on Saturdays. Every HACC location has also supported students in person. #HACCYeah #HACCProud #HACCTutorsRock

Kudos to Seth Chevalier, Matt Gordon, Travis Mast and Ryan McFarland for completing the Banner server migration.

Kudos to the custodial and maintenance staff at the York and Gettysburg campuses for their willingness to change and adapt in support of our students, staff and faculty.

Kudos to the OITLE team and Sean Beaver for the great job on completing the Simulator Lab. There were delays to equipment deliveries numerous times. However, when the simulators arrived, the team worked diligently to get them up and running in a timely manner.

Kudos to Dawn Mull and Erika Steenland for recently creating and implementing a “New/Reactivated Subject Code Request Form” for credit programs in Curriculog. This request form is for any new programs or changes to existing programs that would require new subject codes.

Kudos to John Corrigan, Brian LaForme and Denys Pfeiffer for creating a budget development training PowerPoint presentation which included instructions on how to budget in HACC Web under the new One-College structure. They also provided other budget tools to division and department budget managers to aid in their preparation for the FY2022-23 budget.

Kudos to John Corrigan for developing an Authorized Signature Requirements process flow graphic. This document provides an easy reference to guide divisions and departments through the applicable signature requirements necessary for any contracts entered into on behalf of the College.

Kudos to Dan Fahringer for presenting “Developmental Pathways 1.02+” about HACC’s developmental math redesign at the American Mathematical Associate of Two-Year Colleges 2021 Conference.

Kudos to Matthew Pragel for presenting “Love it or Leave It: Should I join that committee?” about the advantages and disadvantages of faculty service at the American Mathematical Associate of Two-Year Colleges 2021 Conference.

Kudos to Lisa Weigard for her assistance with research for the presentation.

Kudos to Matt Gordon for helping conduct interviews for contracted business analysts. Your insight is appreciated!

Kudos to Greg Daub, Randy Morrow, Phunthip Sungkarat, Nadia Ivanova, and Melissa Ferguson for pitching in to support additional tasks to cover workload of the EA team. Your teamwork and initiative are much appreciated!

Kudos to Nadia Ivanova for following up on One College remaining tasks and helping to bring the project to completion amidst a myriad of outstanding items. Thank you for your attention to detail!

Kudos to Kim Kelsey, Amanda Kerstetter, and Bonnie Thomas for the courage to learn new skills and adopt new practices as we evolve with the One College structure.

Kudos to Nadia Ivanova for leading the Enterprise Services Inclusivity discussion on the Ladder of Inference. I have been using this daily since we met. Thank you for your thoughtful insight and engaging discussion.

Kudos to Seth Chevalier for your endless optimism in the face of mountains of technical hurdles. You are appreciated!

Kudos to Greg Daub, Randy Morrow, Phunthip Sungkarat, Nadia Ivanova, and Melissa Ferguson for Your commitment to team building in the face of challenges. Each of you are appreciated and valued for your insight and candor.

Kudos to Denise Suwanrut and Juanita Mort for your attention to detail and numerous hours of work to prepare the FY23 budget. Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Kudos and congratulations to Larry Franklin, Seth Chevalier and Theresa Richwine for the production migration of the SQL Server Databases. This marks a significant milestone for the College to ensure our data is secure and accessible!

Kudos to Sean Beaver for his continuous support of our Learning Technologies projects and willingness to be flexible with his time to make sure that our team meets our project goals.

Kudos to Melinda Eash for her leadership on creating a revised Pre-Health Professions degree program for our pre-health science program students.

Kudos to Monica Filburn, Melinda Eash, Megan Brightbill, Susan Biggs, and Bob Stakem for participating in the creation of a communication plan for HACC’s off-campus clinical students and faculty.

Kudos to Jennifer Dunn on her graduation and for starting her new position as NSO, Specialist. We are excited to have you on our team!

Kudos to the OD team for a busy semester with a full house of training programs!

Kudos to Brian Watts and Veronica Thomas-Gladden for all their hard work during open enrollment!

Kudos to the Facilities Operations Directors for being unsung heroes!

Kudos to all the Employees Collegewide who have completed all their their Compliance training.

Kudos to Chris Purcell (faculty, Music) composed the original score for "The Hand That Holds The Quill," a play brings attention to “silenced groups” and their place in the Constitution’s history. The play was performed in both Harrisburg and Philadelphia, and was featured in a number of local publications. The tracks were recorded by HACC graduates Justin Turns (Drums) and Blake Harvey (Bass), and were mixed by Jay Kirssin, a faculty member in Music Business, at the studio of Music Business faculty member Joe Trojcak