HOUSTON – The National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development (NISOD) at the University of Texas at Austin has awarded 25 Lone Star College faculty and staff members with the NISOD Excellence Award during its recent conference.
“Lone Star College has outstanding faculty committed to students,” said Stephen C. Head, Ph.D., LSC Chancellor. “It is an honor to work with this very committed group of educators and I congratulate them on this accomplishment.”
The NISOD Excellence Award provides its members the opportunity to acknowledge and recognize individuals who have made exceptional contributions at their respective institutions. Receiving a NISOD Excellence Award demonstrates that the recipient’s college identifies and appreciates their educational contributions.
“Our first in person conference since 2019 went off without a hitch,” said Edward Leach, NISOD’s executive director in a release. “I’m so proud of everything our staff and partners accomplished to make the conference a success! The event was full of energy and it was obvious everyone was thrilled to be back in person and engage in high-quality professional development and celebration.”
Excellence Award recipients were celebrated during NISOD’s 44th International Conference on Teaching and Leadership Excellence recent held in Austin. The conference offered 200-plus educational presentations with topics ranging from creating a classroom culture and reengaging disengaged learners, to erasing barriers to student success.
The LSC faculty and staff members honored were:
LSC-CyFair
Tricia, Bartz
Carolyn Ho
Leslie Jewkes
Trish Smith Cagle
LSC-Houston North
Ilse Granizo
Tarcia Hubert
LSC-Kingwood
Sampada Chavan Dalvi
CaLandra Pervis
Antoinette Sheppard
LSC-Montgomery
Madeline Brogan
Lori Hughes
Micheal Walsh
Charles Wood
LSC-North Harris
Ibrahim Abou Saad
Ralph Angeles
Julie Duncan
Samantha Ward
LSC-Tomball
Alice Ferron-Gabriele
Margret Jelinek Lewis
Lacy Moreno
Kimberly Williams
LSC-University Park
Kristi Boston
Alma-Kristina Rodriquez-Tusini
Christa Spears
Kevin Tucker
“NISOD is proud to continue our long history of recognizing the outstanding work of community and technical college educators at our member colleges, especially on this 31st anniversary year of the Excellence Awards,” said Leach. “We are honored to be able to showcase outstanding colleagues for their good works during our annual celebration of Excellence Award recipients.”
Lone Star College enrolls over 80,000 students each semester providing high-quality, low-cost academic transfer and career training education. LSC is training tomorrow’s workforce today and redefining the community college experience to support student success. Stephen C. Head, Ph.D., serves as chancellor of LSC, the largest institution of higher education in the Houston area and has been named a 2021 Great Colleges to Work For® institution by the Chronicle of Higher Education and ranked 35th in Texas in the Forbes ‘America’s Best Employers By State’ list. LSC consists of eight colleges, seven centers, eight Workforce Centers of Excellence and Lone Star Corporate College. To learn more, visit LoneStar.edu.
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