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Awards and Recognition

Student Life Awards are annually presented to recognize staff for their hard work and dedication to the division mission and the student experience.

2025 Student Life Awards Nominations

Beginning Jan. 29, 2025, submit your nomination for the staff annual Student Life Awards. Review the submission requirements, and award overview and criteria prior to your submission. Nomination submission deadline: March 14, 2025, 5pm.

Submission Requirements

Nominators will be asked the following for each nomination submission:

Nominees name, title, department, relationship to nominee, and brief rationale for their nomination.

Each award has it’s own nomination page. You do not have to nominate an individual for each award. Please proceed to the next page if you do not have a nomination. Ensure you have reached the submission page (page 7) to submit your nominations.

Awards Overview and Criteria

Student Life Mark Duntley Award:

This award recognizes excellent administrative and/or professional performance that enhances the effective functioning of the individual office or unit and contributes to the attainment of the goals and objectives of the Division of Student Life at Lewis & Clark College.

Criteria:

The award committee will consider the following criteria when reviewing nominations:

Positive and effective relationships/interactions with students, staff, and other institutional stakeholders;
Accomplishments that have had a positive impact on the department/office, student experience, and/or Division of Student Life;
Honesty and adherence to the highest standards of moral and ethical values through personal and professional behavior;
Contributions to the awareness and consciousness about diversity and inclusion within the context of the College’s mission/vision;
Is a Student Life full-time or part-time staff employee.

Student Life Team Award:

This awards recognizes a Student Life department or working group who collaborate on a project, process, or other significant initiative that brings about meaningful, positive change that improves performance or productivity and/or reduces costs or enhances the image of the College.

Criteria:

The award committee will consider the following criteria when reviewing nominations:

Advanced the mission and vision of the Division of Student Life;
Pursued clear goals and created distinctive results/solutions that improved performance or productivity, and/or reduced costs, or enhanced the image of the College;
Created a team environment of successful collaborative relationships that promoted communication, trust, and respect for differences;
Demonstrated commitment to values of diversity, tact, and inclusion in performance of responsibilities and in interactions with members of the L&C community, and demonstrated efforts to promote an environment free from bias and discrimination;
Are Student Life full-time or part-time staff employees.

Student Life Excellence in Innovation Award:

This award celebrates and acknowledges an individual whose exceptional innovative and creative initiatives enhance the Division of Student Life.

Criteria:

The award committee will consider the following criteria when reviewing nominations:

Made significant changes, modifications, or approaches, or developed an innovative process or procedure, that enhanced the effective functioning of the individual office or department, and/or the student experience;
Built interactions and partnerships that produced results and left others feeling respected and valued;
Demonstrated commitment to values of diversity, tact, and inclusion in performance of responsibilities and in interactions with members of the L&C community, and demonstrated efforts to promote an environment free from bias and discrimination;
Is a Student Life full-time or part-time staff employee.

Student Life Medallion Award:

This award recognizes an emerging professional who consistently goes above and beyond in their efforts to support the student experience. The recipient of this award will be new to the field of Student Affairs (five years or less).

Criteria:

The award committee will consider the following criteria when reviewing nominations:

Demonstrated commitment to the betterment of Lewis & Clark College and/or their department;
Sustained outstanding performance in one’s job responsibilities that is frequently above and beyond the normal scope of expectations;
Demonstrated impact on creating an environment which enhances the student experience at Lewis & Clark College;
Provided leadership and innovation within the context of the individual’s role and position responsibilities (e.g. exercising sound decision-making and resourcefulness, fostering the development of new ideas and creativity, positive role model for others);
Demonstrated commitment to values of diversity, tact, and inclusion in performance of responsibilities and in interactions with members of the L&C community, and demonstrated efforts to promote an environment free from bias and discrimination;
Is new to the field of Student Affairs (five years or less);
Is a Student Life full-time or part-time staff employee.

Student Life Partner Award:

This award recognizes an outstanding faculty or staff member from a department outside of the Division of Student Life who has contributed to the Division’s attainment of its goals and objectives as demonstrated by collaboration, involvement and partnerships with the Division.

Criteria:

The award committee will consider the following criteria when reviewing nominations:

Enhanced the Division’s ability to have a positive impact on a department or office within Student Life, the student experience, and/or the Division of Student Life itself;
Demonstrated commitment to values of diversity, tact, and inclusion in performance of responsibilities and in interactions with members of the L&C community, and demonstrated efforts to promote an environment free from bias and discrimination;
Is a faculty or staff member from a department outside of the Division of Student Life.

Congrats to the 2024 award recipients!

Archive of Past Winners

Kudos for Colleagues

In addition to the awards program, “Kudos for Colleagues” offers the opportunity to recognize Student Life colleagues for going above and beyond in order to solve a problem, be of assistance, build community, or generally enhance the overall Lewis & Clark experience. Nominated by their peers, every month a colleague will be recognized and receive a gift card. Recognize someone today via this form!

Date	Recipient	Position
December 2024	Fran Spann	Manager of Campus Living Operations
November 2024	Andrea Salyer	Director, Center for Social Change and Community Involvement
October 2024	Gaby Herrmann	Case Manager, VPSL Office
September 2024	Hilary Martin Himan	Chaplain and Director, Center for Spiritual Life
August 2024	Melanie McManamon	Coordinator, First Year Experience
Summer 2024	Nina Olken	Senior Associate Director, Career Center
April 2024	Jimmy Chau	Head Men’s and Women’s Tennis Coach, Physical Education and Athletics
March 2024	Michelle Callahan	Director, Health Promotion & Wellness
February 2024	Carolin Thompson	Administrative Coordinator, Office of Student Accessibility
Dec. 2023-Jan. 2023	Jared Kasten	Area Director for Holmes, Hartzfeld, and Apartments, Campus Living
November 2023	Jessica Carron	Assistant Dean of Campus Life and Director of Student Rights & Responsibilities
October 2023	Brian White	Associate Dean and Director, International Students and Scholars
September 2023	Gina Parisi	Assistant Athletic Trainer, Physical Education and Athletics
May - August 2023	Andrea Salyer	Director, Center for Social Change and Community Involvement
April 25, 2023	Joann Zhang	Director, Inclusion and Multicultural Engagement
April 10, 2023	Ben Meoz	Director, Campus Living
March 13, 2023	Julia Pacheco-Cole	Area Director, Campus Living
February 27, 2023	Paola Dennis	Administrative Specialist, International Students and Scholars
February 13, 2023	Jessica Sweeney	Executive Assistant, Office of the Vice President for Student Life
January 30, 2023	Adam Hintze	Area Director, Campus Living
January 17, 2023	Michelle Callahan	Director, Health Promotion & Wellness
December 5, 2022	Thom Lehman	Assistant Director, College Outdoors
November 21, 2022	Chelsee Ellis	Administrative Specialist, Counseling Services
November 7, 2022	Robin Keillor	Director, Counseling Services
October 24, 2022	Tim McCrory	Head Coach Men’s Basketball, Physical Education/Athletics
October 10, 2022	Megan Doren	Administrative Coordinator, Campus Living
September 26, 2022	Julia Pacheco-Cole	Area Director, Campus Living
September 12, 2022	Hilary Martin Himan	Director/Chaplain, Spiritual Life
August 29, 2022	Paola Dennis	Administrative Specialist, International Students and Scholars