Superior Employees Service Award winners clockwise from high left: Kay Brusca, Kirsten Christian, Anaid Espinosa, Andrea Howard and Brandi Maples.
The U of A Faculty of Training and Well being Professions just lately named the 2023-24 Superior Employees Service Award winners.
The awards acknowledge workers members who constantly go above and past to serve the school, college students and the group. The workers members can be acknowledged alongside the school’s excellent college award winners on the end-of-year assembly on Friday, Could 3, in Hillside Auditorium.
This yr’s winners are:
Service to the Faculty of Training and Well being Professions: Kay Brusca
Brusca, the dean’s govt assistant and chief of workers, is an impressive instance of service to the school. One nominator famous that she usually “wears a number of hats,” working behind the scenes on school occasions and actions and serving to to maneuver the school’s strategic plan ahead together with her optimistic and useful demeanor. Brusca has additionally been known as “the embodiment of [the WE CARE] Caring Tradition.”
Service to the Group: Kirsten Christian
Christian is an administrative specialist II within the Division of Communication Issues and Occupational Remedy. Nominators acknowledged her for taking over further duties as interim workplace supervisor within the Speech and Listening to Clinic. She has gone above and past to be taught the talents essential to handle the clinic — together with dealing with referrals, scheduling and day-to-day operations — whereas sustaining her position as an administrative assistant within the Communication Sciences and Issues program. Christian navigated this problem with out sacrificing affected person take care of the group served by the clinic.
Service to College and Employees: Anaid Espinosa
Espinosa is an administrative specialist II within the Division of Well being, Human Efficiency and Recreation. One nominator known as her an “unsung hero” in her division and remarked that she is thought for her “contagious positivity.” In every nomination, Espinosa was counseled for her kindness, persistence and welcoming presence within the HHPR workplace. She has labored particularly arduous to streamline the journey course of in her division, which all members of HHPR deeply recognize.
Service to College students: Andrea Howard
Howard is an instructional adviser for college kids within the school’s well being professions within the Boyer Heart for Pupil Companies. She assists college students and their households from the start of their journey on the U of A till they stroll throughout the stage at graduation. Howard goes the additional mile for college kids, giving every the person consideration they want and deserve whereas sustaining over 650 scheduled appointments per semester.
Service to the College of Arkansas: Brandi Maples
Maples is acknowledged as a pacesetter in finance and administration, not solely by the school however by the broader U of A group. She is steadily requested to share her experience, assist remedy issues and suggest greatest practices. This yr, Maples served as a subject professional on a number of tasks throughout campus. Most just lately, she helped design and pilot-test a brand new device that can be used for finances reporting. She additionally really useful a brand new template to consolidate info from Workday and UA Join and full summer season workload varieties extra simply and in a well timed method.
Concerning the Faculty of Training and Well being Professions: The Faculty of Training and Well being Professions’ six departments put together college students for a variety of careers in schooling and well being. Along with its longstanding position of making ready educators and academic leaders, the school trains nurses, speech-language pathologists, public well being specialists, recreation and sports activities professionals, counselors, occupational therapists, athletic trainers, and train scientists.