KUDOS

Kudos are extended to Kathleen Dormer Carusone, Nicole McCartan, and Jean Tucker for their ongoing work to create updated job posting guidelines for employers. These guidelines will protect our students and insulate the College from the hazards of inappropriate job postings.

Kudos are extended to the cross-functional team that has worked hard to improve the No Pay process for our students. Thanks are extended to Lori Amspacker, Debbie Beck, Linda Diaz, Ebony Ratleff, Genita Mangum, Mandy Six, Andy Marah, Sara Maines, and Matt Braswell.

Kudos are extended to Matt Braswell, Kelly Swanson, and Danielle Adams for their collaborative work to improve the student success communication flow for continuing students.

Kudos to Emmanuella Brown, and Nancy Moya for jumping in immediately to serve students remotely at the CARE Center.

Kudos to Monica Dixon-Howard and Wendy Brubaker, Assistant Directors of Student Involvement who assisted in sharing Groceries on the Go flyers and engaging students on HACC’s social media accounts to get the word out far and wide. Thank you!

Kudos to Mikayla DiAngelis for your extraordinary organization and creative skills that helped shape the Student Affairs and Enrollment Management Fall 2020 Retreat.

Kudos to our Virtual Navigators Emily Fox and Daniel Ford, who are hosting Navigate training and Registration labs for Faculty, Staff, and Students.

Kudos to Trevor Stynes, lead systems administrator, who has been tremendously helpful in collaborating with Facilities on researching a new fuel management system for our campus fleet. He has gone above and beyond in carrying the workload.

Kudos to the Facilities Maintenance & Grounds crew at Harrisburg - the dream team of Jim Staub, Sean Beaver, Brett Thompson, Erik Hansbury, Brian Cigic, Bill Woodell, Todd Gilbert, Randy Fetterolf, Steve Moore, Ray Wiersma and Leroy Wade have been phenomenal throughout the pandemic. They have done more with less, and they have all stepped up to share a greater workload together - they keep the campus running behind the scenes.

Kudos to Erick Whiteside, Lancaster Campus specialist, general maintenance, for working on room 326 Main to relocate and upgrade the lighting in the video conference room. In order to enhance the viewing quality, the lights had to be rotated 90 degrees and moved to provide a better picture quality on the screens.

Kudos to Dale Hardy, Lebanon Campus tech, general maintenance, for developing an inventory of student art remaining on campus. After the inventory was established, Dale contacted former art students to arrange to pick up their art. The inventory included over eight pages of names and art pieces.

Kudos to Mary Wallick, Lancaster and Lebanon Campus Library specialist, and her team for their foresight in developing an inventory of the Lebanon library items and designating them for future movement to other locations. These efforts will greatly assist the future development of the library spaces on the Lebanon Campus.

Kudos to the York Facilities team for stepping up when things need done to maintain the building spaces for the students and faculty taking hands-on lab classes.

Kudos to the Gettysburg Facilities team who continue to embrace the One-College reorganization and making a smooth transition.

Kudos to Angie Bentz, administrative office specialist, School of Science and Mathematics, for her outstanding support, guidance and wealth of historical knowledge of the Lebanon Campus classroom capacities. This information will be very helpful in planning for the consolidation of the Lebanon Campus spaces and furniture placement/requirements on the third floor of Dixon Hall.

Kudos to Alexis Baker, Jay Lohman and Belinda Ward for leading the Facilities team and the College in the transition to a new and exciting work order system - SchoolDude. For months, the Facilities team has been busy behind the scenes uploading campus information into the new platform. The streamlined and user-friendly work request system is on target to be live by January 2021.

Kudos to Jay Wenger, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology, who co-authored (Ge Ying, Jie Luo, Hai-Yan Xiang) an article entitled, “The Influence of Life-and-Death Views on the Well-Being of Chinese Tujia Ethnic Adolescents,” which was published October 2020 in OMEGA-Journal of Death and Dying.

Kudos to Linnie Carter whose op-ed, Philanthropy is Not About Notches on a Belt, was published in a National Council for Marketing & Public Relations blog on Oct. 2, 2020!

Kudos to Jenn Boyd for developing the inclement weather communications plan!

Kudos to Mike Wagner for leading a successful HACC Foundation audit process!

Kudos to Theresa Richwine for enhancing the HACC website’s search engine optimization!

Kudos to Amanda Clemm for strengthening relationships with key HACC Foundation donors and working with HACC Foundation Board members to do the same!

Kudos to Kelly Swanson for working with Student Affairs colleagues to focus more on student retention!

Kudos to Christina Kelley for playing an integral role in applying for federal grant funds!

Kudos to Desovia Musson for coordinating the alumni-related aspects of our first-ever virtual Commencement ceremony!

Kudos to Laquietta Braswell, Workforce Specialist, who works in the Harrisburg welcome center. Laquietta assists non-credit students with course and program registration and payment. She goes the extra mile to make the enrollment process easy for our students.

Kudos to Monica Dixon-Howard, assistant director, Student Involvement, for the planning of “Black Lives Matter & the Legacy of George Floyd: A Conversation.” This thought-provoking event helped all participants to challenge their understanding and beliefs of the Black Lives Matter movement.

Kudos to Cindy Strawbridge, assistant director, Student Involvement, for her creative collaboration with Chef Tom Long for “Let’s Get Cooking with Chef Tom” to provide tasty and quick meals for students, faculty, and staff. In addition, Cindy has created Wellness Wednesdays with Chloe Knill, Gettysburg Campus SGA president, to provide self-care to students, faculty, and staff.

Kudos to Wendy Brubaker, assistant director, Student Involvement, for organizing and sponsoring the first Esports tournaments at HACC! Esports activities will operate this year through the collaboration of Wendy Brubaker, Student Involvement, and Lisa Cleveland, Athletics. We already have our first student winner, HACC nursing student, Andrew Gardjulis, who won the Eastern Pennsylvania Athletic Conference FIFA 2020 esports competition October 23, 2020!

Kudos to Kim Kelsey, Meredith Jenkins, Randy Morrow, and Matt Gordon for the successful implementation of SmartEvals, the new class evaluation system. Kim led the implementation with support for the Banner integration from Meredith, Randy, and Matt.

Kudos to Dawn Mull, Steph Hockley, Marcia Washinger, Lori Amspacker, Kelly Pannebaker, Mia Bostic, Debbie Beck, Adrienne Barge, Rich Cardamone, Jaime Sholly, Jessie Groft, Brittany Langletz, Stephanie Foster, Genita Mangum, Ragin El-Shater, Ebony Ratleff, Andy Marah, Kylynn Becker, Sara Maines, Rose Miller, Mandy Six, Denys Pfeiffer, Kellyann Zettlemoyer, Rick Albright, Erika Steenland, Meredith Jenkins, Heather Gutschmidt, Greg Daub, Seth Chevalier, Matt Gordon, Nadia Ivanova, Ray Rickell, Phunthip Sungkarat, Randy Morrow, Kim Kelsey, collectively the One College Banner project team for their expertise, patience, flexibility, and collaboration. Your efforts are very much appreciated! Thank you for your investment of time, effort, and energy to this project. It is a very large, complex effort and the team is working so well together. I look forward to being able to celebrate the successful implementation when the changes go live in Banner in July 2021!

Kudos to Randy Morrow and Meredith Jenkins for their work on the ALEKS test score project.

Kudos to Phunthip Sungkarat and Meredith Jenkins for their support of the Bookstore with the VitalSource project. The changes implemented will save time for both HACC and VitalSource.

Kudos to Dale Elkiss, Larry Ewing, Cindy Muth, and Maureen Remley for stepping in to assist a Math faculty in need.

Kudos to Theresa Witkowski, Angie Bentz, Christy Wolfe, Lauren Thompson and Wendy Kaehler from the School of Science and Mathematics for their work to create a comprehensive electronic policy and resource guide for faculty that incorporates changes arising from the college reorganization. This guide has been shared with all schools for further refinement and will be available to all faculty for Spring 2021.

Kudos to Erik Hansbury, facilities staff in-house plumber for stepping up and absorbing all the responsibilities associated with keeping the pool running in the J. Evans Physical Education Building; keeping water levels up, maintaining pH levels and alkalinity, ensuring the cleanliness of the water, and more in addition to his regular duties. We also thank Patty Lentz for doing this for many years and we are thrilled to turn it back over to Patty.

Kudos to Jay Lohman and his Automotive team working to preserve our automotive assets that are sitting idle during the pandemic. They purchased several solar-powered battery maintainers that harness the power of the sun to charge the amorphous solar cells. This creates a trickle-charge to the car battery directly through the 12-volt DC plug (cigarette lighter). The kits are very affordable and can be seen on the shuttle buses, multi-passenger fleet vehicles, EVOC Dodge Chargers and the Ford Crown Victoria.

Kudos to Sean Beaver, Trevor Stynes, Melvin (Todd) Price and Paul Speraw with the installation of the exterior cameras at the Harrisburg Campus.

Kudos to Rob Schanke, Jennifer Orlando, Maria Hamilton, Deb Schrock, Rosetta Lilly, Dan Schoedel, Melany McNew, and Nancy Boito for covering classes for colleagues out for extended absences.

Kudos to Autumn Patti and the students in the Culinary Arts III class for the excellent meal and a very successful curbside pick-up culinary gala. Autumn’s work has helped students achieve learning outcomes in creating and preparing meals for this large event. Autumn’s creativity and flexibility offers such a great student experience which speaks to the high quality and excellence of this unique program.

Kudos to Mary Lee Lefever for troubleshooting numerous issues to ensure students and faculty have the supplies they need for their courses this semester.

Congratulations, Dr. Megan Brightbill on completing your doctorate!

Thank you, Jenny Heberlein for assisting many faculty with using mail-merge to load data onto change of grade forms and for Megan Popp for entering those updates throughout the late summer and early fall. This was a tremendous help for all the faculty who had make-up dates for classes that could not complete spring hands-on classes.

To Dr. Lori Hockley who is the co-founder of WE, Women Empowered, and was part of the planning committee to carry out a successful program called Women Entrepreneurs: The Power of Global Connectivity—Forging and Nurturing Social Connections During Physical Distancing. This program was sponsored by HACC, planned in collaboration with HACC’s Organization Development lead by Cavil Anderson and Elizabeth Stahl and the WE Women Empowered planning committee.

To Dr. Jennie Baar for earning her doctorate degree.