KUDOS

Kudos to all the Department of Public Safety & Security Officers who assisted with ensuring a smooth and safe opening of Dauphin County & UPMC’s COVID19 mobile vaccination site.

Kudos to Radecka Appiah-Padi for her leadership in developing a grant application for a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant.

Kudos to the registrar’s team for their flexibility and responsiveness in support of the requests of colleagues from around the college.

Kudos to Nakia Eckert, Maria Salinas, and Destiny Arturet for their leadership in developing a common read for student affairs and enrollment management.

Kudos to Stephanie Foster for overseeing the OHR Promotion and Tenure continuous improvement project and to Juanita Mort for her guidance on developing the cognito form.

This past semester the Business Studies department has undergone some major revisions to three specific programs, Culinary Arts (Certificate and AAS), Baking and Pastry Arts (Certificate) and Hospitality and Management (AAS). It is important to recognize two key faculty members, Dr. Michelle Myers, Professor Management, and Chef Autumn Patti, Assistant Professor Culinary Arts, who spearheaded these changes. They were dedicated to streamlining these programs for each of their areas of focus, while ensuring a top-notch quality student experience. Through their efforts we were able to reduce the time of completion, cost to attend as well as better support students in their career readiness. We would be remiss if we did not take a moment to express our sincere appreciation for the good work of Dr. Myers and Chef Patti. It is equally critical that we recognize contributions from our powerhouse part-time faculty, Dr. Chad Gruhl, Mrs. Asha Esterline, and Mr. Michael DiVecchio in their support of working through the updates connected to the Hospitality and Management program.

A special thank you is in order for Jenny Heberlein. Her attention to detail continues to support the Business Studies Department in many beneficial ways. Most recently she was able to identify a few oddities related to data and report generation. She took initiative by notifying key stakeholders of the need to review and update important reports used in the Academic Affairs unit. Thank you for your critical eye and efforts to generate more efficiency for the work that not only you do, but others across the unit as well.

Kudos to Linnie Carter and Megan Hoose for presenting about our persona marketing to more than 800 attendees at CASE’s All District Virtual Conference!

Kudos to Linnie Carter for presenting during the NCMPR Annual Conference!

Kudos to Josh Eckenrode for your assistance with the workforce development strategic compass meetings. Your assistance with breakout rooms, computer issues, and the gathering of the recordings, transcripts and notes was very appreciated!

Kudos to the Healthcare Education/WFD coordinators, Jackie Foster, Nina Kottcamp, and Emanda Reiner for building a visually engaging online Healthcare Career Exploration course to market the non-credit healthcare training programs!

Kudos to Jay Lohman, Brett Thompson, and the facilities team, as well as Evelin Schwartz and her team for your help moving Healthcare Education/workforce development offices from Midtown 1 back to the Harrisburg Campus.

Kudos to the Law Enforcement training unit as the 118th Municipal Police Academy graduated all 23 cadets who enrolled in the program. Further, all 23 cadets passed their certification exam on the first attempt!

Kudos to James Weber for facilitating Pennsylvania's first EMS Officer 1 course which begins in a few weeks.

Kudos to Kimmin Kalyaniwala and Alex Snyder for putting together PSC's first Civilian Public Safety Academy.

Kudos to Perry Pierich and the staff of the Career Fire Academy for facilitating PSC's first Facebook Live session, resulting in nearly 1000 views.

Kudos to Roberto Marti, coordinator, transfer Services, updated all dual admissions and transfer event information on www.hacc.edu. The website now has less text and easy to find questions and answers with drop down options.

Kudos to Carly Rogers, administrative office technician, Coordinated Support Network, included information for the Bucknell Community College Scholars Program on www.hacc.edu and included student stories from past HACC scholars.

Kudos to Crystal Kline, case manager, student success, led a successful academic monitoring program in the fall 2020 semester. 1,320 total cases were issued by faculty and all were closed with an outcome.

Kudos to Stephanie Maben and Marcia Waters, success coaches, have offered live success sessions for academically at-risk students and send weekly emails and texts to students to show support and encouragement. They have become a go-to resource for many students and have great working relationships with other SAEM offices and faculty to support students.

Kudos to the CEOs for arranging a “Meet your HACC HR Team” event. The OHR staff thanks you!

Kudos to Jordan Barrie for his work in supporting faculty and students with the annual student Exit Portfolio Review. Last year, Jordan worked with Marjaneh Talebi to identify a way to continue this annual event in a remote setting. Marjaneh and Jordan worked together again this year to continue the event.

Kudos to Darrell Lagace for his work in all-things accessibility. Darrell has really embraced the forward drive to promote increased accessibility, not only on courses, but collegewide.

Kudos to Scott Decker for unwavering commitment to support teaching and learning, and maintaining empathy and insight even in challenging situations.

Kudos to Becky Anstine, Borany Kanal-Scott, Kathleen Frederick, Lisa Gregory, Zack Laurence, Bernadette Lynch, Angela Miessler and Mary Wallick for ongoing work to support students with technology and for working collaboratively on the next iteration of the HACC Learning Commons website.

Kudos to Meriah Swope for coordinating the Library Technology committee and leading their efforts to redesign the library portion of the Learning Commons website.

Kudos to Chhatra Subedi who went the extra mile to investigate a pre-req error in placement that was preventing a student from signing up for a math course. He resolved the issue and saved the student from retesting or taking an additional course.

Kudos to Elisa Cohen for playing a pivotal role in reducing barriers for students. Most recently, she contributed to discussions in recruiting and admitting CHS, DE, and summer bridge students, working to refine these processes by relying more on multiple measures and self-placement procedures.

Kudos to Cathy Rosenkrans and the tutoring team, for innovation during this pandemic. Most recently, they held a virtual job fair for tutors, working closely with Career Services to build and host the event.—18 participants!

Kudos to Kathy Pasewark for supporting our students with Academic coaching and the TEAS study group.

Kudos to Robin Edwards for putting together our finals week TutorPalooza providing additional hours of service on May 1 and 2.

Kudos to Josy Hess and the User Support team for looking into a student’s issue with ID authentication that prevented her from taking the ALEKS PPL math placement test. Their quick response and resolution allow the student to meet deadlines required for the Nursing clinical application.

Kudos to Eric Camarillo for raising the profile of HACC through his writing. Look for an article in the December issue of Praxis: A Writing Center Journal, centering on the writing center as a haunted/haunting place and how we reckon with legacies of oppression and regulation and for his chapter entitled “Antiracism is Antiviolence: Utilizing Antiracist Writing Assessment Theory to Mitigate Violence in Writing Centers” to be featured in Violence in the Work of Composition, edited by Kritsie Fleckenstein and Scott Gage, published by Utah State University Press.

Kudos to Eric Camarillo for serving as co-chair for the National Conference on Peer Tutoring in Writing, which will be online this year, and has a theme of Subversion and Subterfuge, seeking to learn more about how writing tutors break conventional practice in order to support students in becoming stronger writers.

Kudos to Seth Chevalier, Matt Gordon and Travis Mast for intensive monitoring 24x7 of the Banner Registration servers to resolve issues.

Kudos to Nadia Ivanova for her presentation at the Ellucian Live virtual conference. Nadia shared HACC's experience reimplementing Banner Finance Approval Queues that is part of the One College Banner Transformation.

Kudos to Seth Chevalier and Matt Gordon for their work to prepare the new servers and database for the Degree Works installation. These critical technical milestones lay the foundation for the rest of the project!

Kudos to Heather Gutschmidt, Becky Wagner, and Greg Daub for their work supporting the One College Banner Transformation project, specifically, the current HR testing.

Kudos to the Enterprise Services Department (OITLE) for juggling many high priority operational support requests in addition to the high priority projects. Your work is very much appreciated!

Kudos to all the peer and professional tutors and our Zoom moderators. We can’t thank them enough for all they’ve done to adapt to remote tutoring and to support our students. I am so lucky to have them on my team!

Kudos to the Center for Design and Instruction team! They have already begun working on “Exit Demos” for faculty completing Online and Blended training. Thanks to their efforts, HACC’s pathways to expanding program offerings and developing a flexible faculty body are more scalable than ever, without sacrificing quality.

Kudos to the Learning Technologies team for completing work on the first COMM classrooms. In previous years, COMM faculty have relied on a number of sub-optimal “workarounds” to capture and evaluate mandatory assessments of learning outcomes. Every member of the LT team has put many hours into this project while also juggling many other concurrent projects and pricing requests across the College.

Kudos to the Library Specialists! They continue to discover and implement new pathways to deliver an amazing new hub of student services, the HACC Learning Commons. Working collaboratively with Librarians we have helped to build out the new Learning Commons website 2.0 which is in test mode now AND partnered with Navigate to begin new ways to reach out to help students return technology.

Kudos to the Testing Team! They continue to assist students who have extended time on tests and require 1:1 proctoring. The entire team pitches in to support not only students but one another when last minute scheduling changes happen.

Kudos to the Network and Telecommunications team for successfully renegotiating the Cisco maintenance renewal for our phone system for 5 years and network hardware for 3 years. This renegotiation will save the college $10k a year!

Kudos to the Data Security team for successfully blocking approximately 936 fraudulent student accounts used for theft of HACC services, sharing copyright materials, and launching spam campaigns.

Kudos to the System Administration team for their ongoing support of Zoom (158,527 meetings held since 4/1/2020), Virtual Desktop (hosted 107 class sections) and file server migration.