KUDOS

Kudos to Margie Mattis and Theresa Witkowski for all of their excellent work for the School of Science and Mathematics over the past year. Best wishes to them in the School of Liberal Arts.

Kudos to Janelle Heiserman for her professionalism and sensitivity over the last few months in working with the family of a recently passed full-time faculty member.

Kudos to Mathematics and Computer Science faculty for successfully launching new math pathways and implementing new multiple placement measures (that worked in a remote environment) during the fall semester.

Kudos to faculty members Christine Bittinger and Andrew Sicree for their work over winter break in cataloguing, organizing, and packing materials in Hall Tech 121 to facilitate the relocation of programs from Midtown 2 to Hall Tech.

Kudos to Jay Lohman, Rodney Bates, and Harrisburg Facilities staff for their assistance to School of Science and Mathematics personnel for the Hall Tech 121 project.

Kudos to Jim Koons, Matt Davis and Tom Schramm for their assistance to the Office of Academic Affairs. All three stuffed and mailed out over 1,500 fall 2020 Dean’s List certificates to our students. Because of these employees, our students received their certificates in a timely manner while the College remains remote.

Thank you to Dr. Wendy Bratina and Holly Campadonico for their service to Liberal Arts! As they transition to new roles at the college, Liberal Arts is grateful for their advocacy and support of the school.

Kudos to Shawn Williams for coordinating, ordering, packing, and mailing literally hundreds of items to students in visual arts courses. Thanks to Kirti Sonalkar for making sure the orders were submitted quickly and accurately and for tracking them along the way. What a great team!

Kudos to the Liberal Arts administrative team for their support with course scheduling, textbook changes, and more. Thank you Joanne McPherson, Marla Wilson, Holly Campadonico, Theresa Witkowski, Kirti Sonalkar, Laurie Blevins-Gilbert, Maria Fortini, and Peggy Andrews.

Kudos to Heather Pragel and Gretchen McDonell for their support of hands-on classes for spring!

Kudos to Kathy Brickner and the facilities team for supporting sanitized spaces and social-distancing protocols for hands-on classes this spring.

Kudos to Sandra Kroft, Associate Professor, Wellness and Health Promotion, for her assistance in maintaining a full College in High School partnership with Gettysburg Area School District after the recent resignation of a health instructor at the high school.

Kudos to art adjunct faculty member Valerie Dillion whose exhibition Meanderings goes up at the Susquehanna Art Museum in February: https://www.susquehannaartmuseum.org/galleries/meanderings/?fbclid=IwAR3MQwKWgtTE6STcwssPOM2FjZ1ueHjTU_WVk-ZAiUcvL0gGFvsyLF0nhx0

Kudos to Matthew Pragel, Chair, mathematics and computer science department who has been appointed as the Student Math League Coordinator for the American Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges (AMATYC.) He will oversee the national math contest for two-year college students and present the regional and national awards at the annual AMATYC conference. Previously, Matthew served as HACC’s local contest coordinator for this competition since 2014.

Kudos, appreciation and thank you to Brian Cigic for the work he has done for the last several months in the interim position of automotive specialist.

Kudos to Randall Campbell, Dave Edwards, Tom Frye and Ron Benkendorf for assisting the Office of Human Resources with campus signage.

Kudos to Sean Beaver and Leroy Wade for installing the internal strobe lights on the RoboVent System at the Midtown I Welding Lab, saving the College external vendor costs and the surrounding community from the very loud, and sometimes unattended, outside alarms.

Kudos to Belinda Ward and Trevor Stynes for their expertise to quickly and seamlessly assist facilities in launching the new SchoolDude work order system.

Kudos to Shawn Dumez, Kristina Niemi-Blain, Neftali Perez, Brandon Powell, and Jim Walker, the client services team, for updating over 3800 student desktops and 600 remote laptops since COVID-19 closure back in March 2020. This team also moved all the equipment for the Midtown and Lebanon projects.

Kudos to Kristina Niemi-Blain, client services administrator, for all of her work on Cognito forms to help facilitate equipment requests and inventory tracking.

Kudos to Matt Gibson, system administrator, for all of his work to support our Students and Faculty through our Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) environment. Matt is currently providing support for and offering a VDI solution for 54 individual classes during the Spring 2021 Semester.

Kudos to Michael Brommer, Matt Gibson, Cody Neff, Russ Shader, Trevor Stynes and Belinda Ward, the system administration team for their ability to dynamically and quickly shift tasks and projects all while maintaining a very high level of customer service.

Kudos to Paul Speraw and Todd Price for installing the security cameras college-wide and removing network equipment from each campus for e-cycling purposes.

Kudos to Rick Albright, Lori Amspacker, Rich Cardamone, Seth Chevalier, Greg Daub, Ragin El-Shater, Matt Gordon, Heather Gutschmidt, Steph Hockley, Nadia Ivanova, Meredith Jenkins, Genita Mangum, Andy Marah, Dawn Mull, Denys Pfeiffer, Erika Steenland, Marcia Washinger, and Kellyann Zettlemoyer for completing testing of the new Finance Chart of Accounts, AR Detail Codes, and College Codes for the One College transformation project. Quite a bit of planning, analysis, validation, collaboration, and documentation goes into each phase of this project and this marks the completion of a significant deliverable for this project. This milestone in particular was pertinent to enabling registration to open on time! Congratulations on this achievement!

Kudos to Greg Daub, Heather Gutschmidt, Nadia Ivanova and Meredith Jenkins for their tireless work to support the One College transformation of Banner amidst numerous other projects and priority issues. Your dedication and contributions are very much appreciated.

Kudos to Heather Gutschmidt and Ray Rickell, for completing the Banner integration project with bSwift in time for the January payroll and HSA processes. Heather and Ray worked collaboratively with the vendor to resolve issues.

Kudos to Rich Cardamone, Seth Chevalier, Greg Daub, Nadia Ivanova, Meredith Jenkins and Kelly Pannebaker for resolving issues regarding the payroll tax updates in Banner in time for the January payroll.

Kudos to Seth Chevalier, Greg Daub, Matt Gordon, Kevin Nutt, and Evelin Schwartz, for providing exceptional customer service to our Ellucian consultants and helping to resolve their connectivity and system access questions.

Kudos to Brian Watts and Stephanie Foster for working collaborating with Heather Gutschmidt to complete the HSA bSwift Banner integration project.

Kudos to the Data Governance Task Force: Cindy Gavazzi, Brittany Langletz, Heather Gutschmidt, Meredith Jenkins, Kim Kelsey, Jaime Sholly, Denys Pfeiffer, Rebecca Wagner, Kelly Pannebaker, and Jessie Groft.

Kudos to Junita Mort, Kathy Brickner, and Rich Cardamone for all of their support and guidance as a mentor and friend to the Office of Human Resources.

Kudos to Cavil Anderson, Elizabeth Stahl, Elgin Thomas, Berlesha Palmer, Terry Sholansky, Ruijiao Jackson, Briana Bolin, Patarin Hoffman, Jessie Groft, Brittany Langletz, Jaime Sholly, Stephanie Foster and Brian Watts for having the best OHR retreats!

Kudos to Wendy Brubaker, Monica Dixon-Howard and Cindy Strawbridge for planning a wonderful week of MLK celebration events.

Kudos to the Student Involvement team for a varied and energetic Welcome Week of virtual programming

Kudos to Lisa Cleveland, Neftali Perez, Rob Schanke and Amy Gainor for growing student esports engagement and participation.

Kudos to Allen Tischer for ensuring that all Military and Veteran students were certified to receive benefits to support their education.

Kudos to Jennifer Daley for registering and welcoming new international students during these challenging remote times.

Kudos to Kim Ketelsleger, Forrest Lysinger, Sari Bailey, Melissa Harden, Cristina Julan, Kelly Reed, Greg Woods and Josh Silbaugh for their work on the Engineering Career Day. This event was held on February 26, 2021. They hosted approximately 200 high school students into various virtual sessions to learn more about our Engineering programs. They did a great job with this virtual event!

Kudos to the following Computer Technology faculty: Doug Brown, Rich Elwell, Kari Meck, Kelli Cross, Rob Schanke, Diane Bittle, Maria Hamilton, Cristina Julan, Jen Orlando, Eric Yoxheimer, Ed VanBlargan and Carl Petersheim for their innovative way to hold their own Computer Career Day. Instead of having a synchronous event, they are instead creating a series of pre-recorded videos to be shown to high schools students throughout the area highlighting our Computer Technology programs.