Colleen Whitman, heart, accepts the International Campus Worker of the Quarter award from Cheryl Murphy, vice provost for distance training and head of the International Campus (left), and Jamie Loftin, assistant vice provost for distance training administration (proper).
Colleen Whitman has been named worker of the second quarter by the U of A International Campus.
Whitman, the net scholar help supervisor for International Campus, was praised for empowering her employees by means of coaching and day by day help. Her efforts, and the work carried out by her groups, assist the U of A improve enrollments and retain college students. Whitman additionally shares International Campus’ modern procedures with different academic entities. Most not too long ago, she hosted a poster at UPCEA MEMS 2022 in New Orleans and gave two displays at UPCEA SOUTH in Atlanta in November.
“Colleen is taking the result in elevate her group to deal with scholar help now and to scale it for the longer term,” her colleagues mentioned in her nomination. “She has executed this by implementing an in depth worker coaching course of for each full- and part-time employees within the On-line Scholar Liaison Workplace (OSLO). This coaching permits OSLOs to rise up to hurry faster, which means college students get higher and quicker help.”
Whitman first joined International Campus in 2002. She at the moment manages groups supporting on-line college students going by means of the applying course of and transitioning to the college. She supervises the On-line Scholar Liaison Workplace and the Teaching for On-line College students Workplace for International Campus.
“I recognize the help I obtain from Dr. Milner!” Whitman mentioned. “We have employed and skilled over 20 staff because the On-line Scholar Liaison workplace began in Fall 2019. 4 full-time liaisons have been employed in Fall 2022 who’ve already helped me enhance present supplies and develop new ones.”
Patty Milner, assistant vice provost for scholar outreach and innovation and Whitman’s supervisor, has solely reward for Whitman’s contributions to International Campus.
“Colleen’s work touches lots of International Campus’ core values,” Milner mentioned. “She lives them in her day by day work: empowerment, folks, excellence, innovation, entry and attain. Such dedication is priceless.”
Cheryl Murphy, vice provost for distance training, acknowledged Whitman as the worker of the quarter on the January employees assembly.
“Colleen is a treasure,” Murphy mentioned. “She has many abilities, however considered one of her best is her means to know the wants of recent and potential college students and assist meet these wants. Supporting her employees and serving to college students is her prime precedence.”
The International Campus awards the worker of the quarter to acknowledge excellent achievements and accomplishments that relate to the unit’s objectives and the U of A mission. The award recipient receives a commemorative certificates and a financial award.
That is Whitman’s third time to obtain the worker of the quarter award whereas with International Campus. She acquired the award in 2017 and once more in 2020.
Different second quarter nominees embody:
- Adam Brown, tutorial designer, Educational Design and Help Companies
- Kerry Garcia, grant compliance specialist, Skilled and Workforce Growth
- Kyle Hellier, human sources analyst, Monetary Affairs and Human Sources
- Katie Ricardo, program coordinator, Skilled and Workforce Growth
The International Campus helps U of A tutorial schools and faculties within the growth and supply of on-line diploma packages and programs, self-paced on-line programs, and workforce growth packages. This unit gives tutorial design providers, studying expertise help, media manufacturing providers and help with monetary administration, recruitment and advertising.
The International Campus additionally helps the W.E. Manning Memorial Scholarship, which is open to undergraduate and graduate college students finding out in on-line diploma packages.