Distinguished Service Award
The Distinguished Service Award highlights campus professionals who have made invaluable contributions to the campus community and to their profession through exemplary service.
2023 Distinguished Service Award:
Nominations are sought to highlight campus professionals who have made invaluable contributions to the campus community and their profession through exemplary service. All PSS-represented employees from the Research Foundation (RF), Management Confidential (MC) and United University Professions (UUP) are eligible for nomination and award.
Please submit nominations via the Distinguished Service Award Nomination Form 2023.
Deadline for Applications: Friday, April 14, 2023
The Distinguished Service Award Recognition Ceremony will take place on Wednesday, May 17, 2023 from 3:00 - 4:30 p.m., in-person in the Baseball Stadium Complex. Please RSVP via Google form by Wednesday, April 10, 2023.
Please contact the Co-chair of the Recognition Committee, Kaitlin Maynard, at kmaynard@binghamton.edu with any questions.
Eligibility:
Eligible applicants include all Professional Staff Senate represented employees, which includes the following groups:
- Research Foundation (RF) exempt employees;
- Management Confidential (M/C)
- United University Professions (UUP)
FROM THE CONSTITUTION: The constituency of PSS shall consist of all professional staff holding permanent, term, administrative or temporary appointment, with the exception of:
- The President and Vice Presidents.
- Those with academic or qualified academic rank whose primary responsibility is teaching, research or the Library.
- Those with voting faculty privileges.
- Research Foundation non-exempt staff
Awardees will be ineligible for ten years following their receipt of the award, after which they may be nominated to receive the award again.
Please contact the Rules Committee Chair to verify eligibility.
Criteria:
Candidates for receipt of the Distinguished Service Award are reviewed according to the following merits:
- Quality of service (has the individual gone “above and beyond” the calling of their role to provide true constituent service and effect lasting impressions?)
- Reach of service (do the effects of this service impact other offices and/or different aspects of the student experience?)
- Quantity of service (has the individual been a long-term contributor for one or more organizations and to what extent?)
Process:
- Candidates for the Distinguished Service Award (DSA) can be nominated any professional
member of the campus community
- Completed applications include submission of the online nomination form and three letters of recommendation. It is highly recommended that one of the letters come from the nominee's supervisor
- A DSA selection committee is convened to review the applications received in each academic cycle.
- The DSA award recipients shall be determined by the end of the Spring Semester each
year.
- All professional members of campus are eligible to participate in the DSA selection committee.
- Neither nominators nor nominees can participate in the DSA selection process. The committee may choose to award up to three recipients per year.
- The DSA award recipient(s) shall be determined by the end of the Spring Semester each academic year.
- Formal recognition will take place at the annual Professional Staff Senate (PSS) Distinguished Services Awards Luncheon and constituency meeting.
- The awardee(s) will also be appropriately recognized in PSS and University publications.
- The award includes a framed certificate monetary award, and, the names of the awardee(s) will be added to the Distinguished Service Award plaque on display in the lobby of the Couper Administration Building.
The Distinguished Service Award Committee shall select two professionals who have made invaluable contributions to the campus community and to their profession through exemplary service.
The nomination period will is announced each spring via Dateline and the PSS newsletter.
Distinguished Service Award Winners
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2022 Cait Crisman Emily Sanderson Paulina Schertzer |
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2021 Michael Duell Drew Tucci Jeffrey Williams |
2020 Cindy Cowden Jennifer Nolan |
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2019 Courtney Ignarri |
2018 Thomas Blake Carrie Feyerbend |
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2016 Rachel Cavalari Monice DeGennaro |
2015 Michelle Jones Cindy Olbrys Betsy Staff |
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2014 Kerry Cook |
2013 Rachel Coker Holly Horn |
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2012 Stephen Gowe Jeffrey Horowitz |
2011 Katie Ellis Bonnie Jenson Krista Medionte-Phillips |
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2010 Nancy Boyd-Goff Jennifer Hapgood |
2009 Erik Colon Alexsandra Silva |
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2008 Tami Mann Oktay Sekercisoy |
2007 Cynthia Altmansberger Thomas Hanford |
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2006 Victor Fiori Ryan Yarosh |
2005 Susan Barker Carol Hall |
