{"id":10140,"date":"2024-05-28T09:37:06","date_gmt":"2024-05-28T14:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/?p=10140"},"modified":"2025-11-04T12:19:01","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T18:19:01","slug":"appreciating-staff-excellence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/2024\/05\/28\/appreciating-staff-excellence\/","title":{"rendered":"Appreciating staff excellence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-medium is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/05\/20240523_NIT_Staff-Advisory-Council-Recognition-Awards-scaled-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/20240523_NIT_Staff-Advisory-Council-Recognition-Awards-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Award recipients and attendees at the 2024 Staff Recognition Awards Ceremony.\" class=\"wp-image-10142\" style=\"width:310px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Award recipients and attendees at the 2024 Staff Recognition Awards Ceremony.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We recently marked another memorable <a href=\"https:\/\/staffcouncil.missouri.edu\/staff-recognition-week\/\">Staff Recognition Week<\/a>, an annual celebration of our more than 15,000 Mizzou and UM System staff and their contributions to our teaching, research and engagement mission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Along with a free staff lunch, fun activities and opportunities for professional development, we also held our Staff Recognition Week Awards Ceremony. We were proud to <a href=\"https:\/\/staffcouncil.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/2024-Milestone-Awardees-Final.pdf\">acknowledge significant service milestones<\/a> and distribute awards for excellence. Among the many recipients were six receiving Chancellor\u2019s Outstanding Staff Awards. All were nominated by colleagues for their incredible commitment to others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2024 Chancellor\u2019s Outstanding Staff Award honorees:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><strong>\u2022<\/strong><\/strong> <strong>Dr. Julie Birt<\/strong> \u2013 Administrative\/Professional Staff<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><strong><strong>\u2022<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong> <strong>Willie Brown, Jr.<\/strong> \u2013 Crafts\/Maintenance Staff<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><strong><strong>\u2022<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong> <strong>Secley Kennedy<\/strong> \u2013 Clerical\/Office Staff<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><strong><strong>\u2022<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong> <strong>Ken Neff<\/strong> \u2013 Part-Time\/Temporary Staff<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><strong><strong>\u2022<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong> <strong>Peter Norgard<\/strong> \u2013 Technical\/Paraprofessional Staff<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><strong><strong>\u2022<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong> <strong>Guy Wilson<\/strong> \u2013 UM System Staff<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Congratulations to all award and milestone recipients. I\u2019d also like to thank the <a href=\"https:\/\/staffcouncil.missouri.edu\/\">Staff Advisory Council<\/a> for organizing this important week of appreciation. I\u2019m grateful for the hard work and dedication shown by each of our staff members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2014 Mun<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We recently marked another memorable Staff Recognition Week, an annual celebration of our more than 15,000 Mizzou and UM System staff and their contributions to our research, teaching and engagement mission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10140"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12346,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10140\/revisions\/12346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}