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Jayne works very hard to support our office. Jayne has been a consistent presence and I always appreciate her willingness to help with my onboarding and provide support and context as a new staff member. I am lucky to work alongside her on the team. I also appreciate her knowledge on Subarus!

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Date posted: March 2, 2022 | Author: | Comments Off on Jayne Holley – NIU Alumni Association

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Lesslie is a great asset to the department. With her department merging with another department, she has stepped up and helped students and faculty when needed and helped big time with the staff helping each other. I always look forward to coming to work every day knowing that Lesslie will be there to help us out.

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Date posted: March 1, 2022 | Author: | Comments Off on Lesslie Erickson – Earth, Atmosphere and Environment

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Annette is one of the outstanding people over in procurement. She is an amazing person to contact with issues and problems when they come up and she gets things done. She is one of the greats and NIU is lucky to have someone like her over in procurement helping us out every day and dealing with all of us! Thank you!

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Date posted: March 1, 2022 | Author: | Comments Off on Annette Reyes – Procurement Services

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Matt has taken on his job at NIU as teacher certification coordinator and has added several other hats in the School of Music to help the school run smoothly and deal with staffing shortages and job eliminations.

I mostly appreciate his very positive attitude that he shares with his coworkers. We are all overwhelmed and he is so positive and always says “you got this!” with positive conversation, a great smile and always offers to help.

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Date posted: March 1, 2022 | Author: | Comments Off on Matt Todd – School of Music

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My daughter is a freshman at NIU, and is involved in marching and pep bands. I want to give a shout out to the entire coaching staff of the women’s basketball team (and the team itself).

The pep and marching bands are very much an integral part of the games where they perform, though most sports teams tend to ignore the musicians. My daughter shared with me that the head coach of the women’s team always makes it a point to take a moment of silence at the start of each game to recognize the social/racial inequities in the world.

Not only that, but the entire team takes the time to thank the band after the game, and frequently interacts with the band off the court as well.

Finally – there is one individual who provides pizza for the entire pep band, reportedly out of their own pocket. I’m absolutely blown away.

I’ve been a very involved “band mom” since 2015, having traveled with the high school band that three of my kids played in to various away competitions and home ones as well, and with my son who’s at SIU-C. As band parents, we’ve provided our own band with food donated by the band parents after long events, and have had countless schools come by and tell us how amazing that is because their schools don’t do that. I’ve never seen someone outside the band do that.

Their efforts are incredible and they deserve to be recognized for all of their contributions to making the pep band feel like a welcome, *valued* part of the game – where they all belong.

Thank you to all of the women’s basketball staff.

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Date posted: February 23, 2022 | Author: | Comments Off on Lisa Carlsen, Adam Tandez, Women’s Basketball Staff – Intercollegiate Athletics

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Sergey has provided unconditional support and encouragement for our team working with GAEA. Always positive and upbeat, he consistently shares needed information with us and is quick to troubleshoot challenges or respond to questions we’ve posed. We are grateful for his guidance. NIU is fortunate to have an employee like Sergey.

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Date posted: February 23, 2022 | Author: | Comments Off on Sergey Uzunyan – Center for Research Computing and Data

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Brigid has worked tirelessly to make sure our school of music audition process goes as smooth as possible, and that it is a very welcoming event for our potential future Huskies. Her efforts are incredibly appreciated by her colleagues and students alike!

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Date posted: February 23, 2022 | Author: | Comments Off on Brigid Findley – School of Music

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I would like to compliment one of your staff members.

Keith Cochrane just reached out to let us know that one of our employees dropped their work badge somewhere on your campus. He could have simply just tossed it in the garbage or thought nothing of it, but he did not. Taking the time to reach out to us and offer to send it back “home” goes above and beyond any expectations, and we really appreciate that he did that.

We need more kindness in the world, so experiencing this simple act from Keith is pretty great and wanted to make sure he knew it was noticed!

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Date posted: February 23, 2022 | Author: | Comments Off on Keith Cochran – University Libraries

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