KUDOS

Kudos are submitted to the Office of the President, regularly. If you would like to recognize someone, or an entire team of colleagues, send the kudo to presidentski@hacc.edu

Congratulations colleagues, for the third year in a row, HACC was designated most promising place to work! You can read the full news release here. #HACCProud
Thank you to Dave Edwards for his steadfast leadership, support of his personnel and commitment to ensuring the campuses are prepared for our return in May.
Thank you to Carrie Potteiger for working with OIST to get set up remotely to continue to process claims for the dental clinic. Her extra effort to keep on track with income received and claims being processed along with her daily interaction with our clinical patients through Jabber is very much appreciated.
Thanks to Edyta Lonon and Zack Laurence for working with students on the emergency computer loan process, ensuring students had the technology they needed to continue learning remotely. They have worked as a team to contact over 175 students via multiple emails to confirm needs and schedule appointments to pick up equipment.
Thanks to the following library staff and faculty--Meriah Swope, Kathleen Frederick, Becky Anstine, Jennifer Hummel, Angela Miessler, Ashley Tissue, Lisa Gregory, Diane Wollaston, J.L. Garner, Bernadette Lynch, Mary Wallick, and Laura Spurigo--for making 600 phone calls to students to determine computer equipment needs as we started our student equipment rollout.
To Timothy Smith for developing the D2L module for tutor training and resources for HACC’s college-wide remote tutoring program, as well as creating a student survey, faculty outreach, and a HACC Tutoring widget for faculty (in partnership with Roger Garber).
To Holly Estrada, who has been very helpful in managing several needs from Academic Affairs at Lancaster in the remote environment. She has facilitated conversations with vendors to manage equipment purchases and deliveries in light of the current physical campus closures and allowed the College to procure necessary equipment, despite challenges to delivery.
Thanks to Ron Worby, Ron Benkendorff, and the Lancaster security team for their ongoing work to keep the Lancaster Campus safe and functional during the campus closure.
To Monica Dixon-Howard for her work with students in SGA and SPB, as well as her collaboration with other college student development personnel, to develop broad and engaging remote program options for HACC students.
To the Communications Center Team for assisting the Admissions Department with communicating to new students about their next steps and following up with students who have requested placement testing!
To all the staff on the Admissions Team for continuing to serve prospective students, developing a Virtual Open House for all student populations, and for their creativity to generate new ideas for Virtual Events!
To Cris Quade, Betty Kopp, Justine Ekstrom, and Jenny Walker for processing new student applications and entering multiple measure data!
To Sarah Sanders for going above and beyond her job. She has been immensely important in keeping all five campuses’ authorizations organized.
Thank you to all the Security Officers during this pandemic for their continued devotion to duty.
Mandy Six and Robin Yost for managing the complete move to remote for Harrisburg campus and continuing to serve students through all welcome center functions.
Christine Cappuzzo and Matt Braswell for keeping advising up and running through remote registration.
Jeff Gerstein for creatively establishing remote involvement opportunities for students during the transition and for creating a message for students with the Harrisburg student affairs team!
The payroll team, Kelly Pannebaker, Melissa Messner, Dawn Myers and Cindy Duncan, for all of their efforts to ensure employees are paid accurately and on time.
Steph Hockley for all her hard work in coordinating the development of the 2020-21 fiscal year budget that was recently adopted by the Board of Trustees.
Dawn Mull and Marcia Washinger for their efforts in rebuilding the chart of accounts in preparation of the transition to the One-College model.
Kyle DiBrito for his continued commitment to faculty, staff and students by offering printing services to those who cannot print their course materials from home, as well as developing a simple process for the purchase and return of textbooks.
The Lancaster Bookstore Student Workers for their continued service and support to the bookstore staff.
Steve Sagar for providing quality and professional service to Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology, as well as his efforts in keeping our student workers informed, involved and engaged with the bookstore and College developments.
Theresa Henry for her better-than-business-as-usual relations with our professional vendors for both the Lancaster and Lebanon bookstores, as well as her efforts in keeping our student workers informed, involved and engaged with the bookstore and College developments.
To The York Bookstore team, Matthew Nowik and Lisa Krug, who have taken the remote working from home opportunity to take advantage of the many online training opportunities on the HACC LMS system.
To Roger Garber for the hours and hours of assistance with remote access when employees had issues working from home.
To Randy Kissinger, Lisa Arnold, Julie Quigley, and Jason Bullock for their work in increasing social media engagement with student, employer, and faculty interviews and other videos.
To the following team members for their amazing work in transforming courses to a virtual modality in light of the COVID-19 health crisis:
- Rusty Brink and Tyra Turner (Intro to Construction and Wastewater Treatment)
- Nick Landis Tool and Die Apprenticeship class with corporate partner TE Connectivity
A huge thank-you to Emanda Reiner who has worked above and beyond the call of duty in every way possible to ensure our students, instructors and nursing home clients have been apprised of nurse aide class cancellations and our plans to resume the classes when we are permitted to do so.
Thank you to the massage therapy instructors who have demonstrated great teamwork and are ensuring that the impact of COVID-19 on our day and evening students is minimal. They have placed whatever curriculum possible on D2L and Zoom, and are a great example of how “teamwork makes the dream work!”
To the Workforce Development Division’s Early Childhood Education Coordinator, Melissa Nagengast, as she made and shipped over 200 masks to healthcare workers in New York City. Locally, she's also making masks and distributing food to those in need. Contact manageng@hacc.edu if you would like to help make a difference in our community.
To James Weber for facilitating weekly continuing education sessions via Zoom to engage both current EMS students as well as past graduates.
To Melissa Etzweiler for successfully modifying the EMT apprenticeship program to facilitate the continuity of HACC's first EMT apprenticeship.
To Robert Schanke, Joshua Eckenrode, and Nicholas Landis for creating new virtual reality and augmented reality content for innovative remote learning in Precision Machining! This initiative is possible thanks to the support from the HACC Foundation John E. Paxton and Gloria W. Paxton Fund for Excellence in STEAM.
To the Remote Teaching Team for providing support to faculty to move their courses remotely! Lise-Pauline Barnett, Jordan Barrie, Jason Beaudin, Gina Bowers, Josh Eckenrode, Matt Feeser, David Feller, Tamara Girardi, Paul Gleed, Matt Harris, Melany McNew, Kari Meck, Caroline Mellinger, Joe Mendrzycki, Suzanne O’Hop, Jen Orlando, Kathleen Pratt, and Valerie Gray. Special note to the additional contributors that aided in HACC’s success to move classes remotely: Roger Garber, numerous faculty volunteers that supported their peers, and librarians Jennifer Hummel, Pattie Craumer and Kathleen Heidecker.
To Emily Fox and VLSAC leaders Asley Zubik, Rachel Fleagle, Madison Lucey, and Elizabeth Pellegrino for providing events and online office hours to support students during COVID-19.
To Shawn Dumez for working with a student over a weekend to get them ready for a Monday class.
To Doug Docimo, for assisting with the hot spots and working over the weekend to get them reconfigured and back to campus the next day.
To David Shaffer and Kevin Nutt for putting in extra hours to get Remote Desktop Services deployed and expanded to ensure it would work for our remote users.
To Todd Price for keeping switchgear organized during technology deployments.
To Kristina Niemi-Blain and Belinda Ward for staying late during technology deployments and for keeping everything organized in Stabler.
To Chad Inners and Brandon Powell for going above and beyond in supporting the York Campus.
To Seth Chevalier, Aaron Stout, Steve Barry, Linda Mussoline, Nadia Ivanova, Greg Daub, Heather Gutschmidt, Travis Mast, Phunthip Sungkarat, Ray Rickell, Meredith Jenkins and Amanda Kerstetter who helped as runners to campuses and with technology deployment.
To Kim Kelsey, Heather Gutschmidt, Meredith Jenkins and Ray Rickell, who compiled the Device Availability survey and data from Banner to support technology deployment to employees and students.
To Travis Mast who helped configure laptops for the Enterprise Applications and Institutional Reporting teams.
To Matt Gordon who helped with OIST leadership planning and resolving issues with MyHACC on AWS.
To Roger Garber for provisioning Zoom pro accounts - both existing and future; for adding over 100 faculty to the FRC to ensure access to training materials; for delivering devices to Lancaster for deployment; for working with Matt Gibson to stand up VDI for COMM on an extremely accelerated timeline.
To Joe Mendrzycki, Jordan Barrie and Qiquan Wang for preparing the Remote Teaching Readiness resources in the Faculty Resource Center on very tight timeline; for conducting 6-hours of training on Tuesday focused on walking faculty through moving to remote instruction and conducting 12 topics-based training sessions on Wednesday.
To Cathy Rosenkrans, Louise Darlington, Elisa Cohen and Scott Decker for working in new positions or positions they had not technically started yet with the added burden of COVID-19.
To Scott Decker for coordinating a massive college-wide technology roll-out.
To Nadia Ivanova for her commitment to supporting the One College Banner & Systems project amidst the disruption of the COVID-19 remote work environment. Nadia's leadership skills were invaluable to the success of the remote testing the week of March 30^th and during the remote Ellucian engagements.
To Heather Gutschmidt, Matt Gordon, Greg Daub, and Ray Rickell for commitment to supporting HR with the implementation of PageUp which is scheduled to go live in April.
To Aaron Stout and Matt Gordon for their quick response to create a new application for employees who assist students with password resets. The new tool replaced a tool that was inaccessible when working remotely.
To Dawn Mull, Marcia Washinger, Steph Hockley, Lori Amspacker, Andy Marah, Genita Mangum, Nadia Ivanova, Greg Daub, and Meredith Jenkins for their dedication and diligence in supporting the Ellucian engagements for the One College Banner Reorganization project. Working in a remote capacity for very long days that were to be on-site has been a challenge, but the team has been attentive and productive to allow the project to keep moving forward.
To Evelin Schwartz and Naeem Yazdani for stepping in as new managers and quickly asserting themselves through project leadership and planning efforts as well as focusing their energies and efforts in the right places.
To Jim Walker for consistently maintaining and improving our applications including Always on VPN through system tweaks and updates as well as providing expert troubleshooting to help prevent issues before they arise.
To Belinda Ward for her willingness to take on new projects and seamlessly integrate into the systems administration team.
To the OIST team of Branden Powell, Chad Inners, and Andrew Witkowski for their rapid deployment of technology and continued support to students, staff and faculty.
To the facilities team, Todd Greer, Dennis Herbst, Stephen Miller, Brian Mullen and Tom Frye for maintaining the beauty of the grounds and building systems at the campus while we are away.
To Juan Maldonado, Gregory Blake, David Gordon, Kyle Enterline, James Gironda, and Jeffrey Spence for ensuring that the campus is safe, secure and assisting authorized staff, tenants, and vendors access to the building.
To our custodial staff, Brandon Kiers, Kasim Karaev, Doeline Lewis, and Barbara Smith for keeping the campus disinfected and safe for all.
To Constance Smith for providing fiscal support and service above and beyond to ensure smooth operations are continued.
To the OIST team of Scott Decker, Doug Docimo, and Kegan Brauning for their rapid deployment of technology and continued support to students, staff and faculty.
To Brian Miller, Bob McKee and Tom Frye for maintaining the beauty of the grounds and building systems at the campus while we are away.
To Tom Long, Kevin Crouse, and Tim Hough for ensuring that the campus is safe, secure and assisting authorized staff and vendors access to the building.
To our custodial staff, Tenley Fridinger, Tonia Hankey and Daltin Taylor for keeping the campus disinfected and safe for all.
To Lorie McKee for providing fiscal support and service above and beyond to ensure smooth operations are continued.