Donna Simiele and Cheri Yager with their SUNY Chancellor’s Award. (Photographs courtesy of NCCC)
Fri, Feb 18th 2022 01:40 pm
A digital recognition ceremony was held to honor college and workers at Niagara County Neighborhood Faculty (NCCC) on Thursday, Feb. 3. Throughout the occasion, a particular acknowledgment featured the recipients of the 2020-21 SUNY Chancellor’s Awards for Excellence. These annual awards are honors conferred to acknowledge and supply recognition for constantly superior skilled achievement and to encourage the continuing pursuit of excellence throughout the State College of New York (SUNY) system.
Donna Simiele was acknowledged for Excellence in Categorised Service. Cheri Yager was acknowledged for Excellence in Skilled Service.
Simiele has been an worker of NCCC since 1986, working in numerous roles to assist the faculty, its college and college students. A press launch said, “She has been a useful workforce member in on-line studying, serving because the campus chief in coaching college to fulfill the accessibility necessities for supply of on-line content material. She participates in quite a few SUNY teams and coaching to maintain up on her personal skilled growth, and stays abreast of the know-how, compliance necessities, and finest practices within the development of on-line schooling.
“Donna has at all times offered high quality coaching and assist to college, however when COVID-19 struck and the faculty wanted to go totally distant, she kicked into disaster mode, and labored tirelessly days, nights, and even on weekends to assist college in shifting to this new educational medium. Her division of on-line studying supported 140 part of on-line and blended programs, and this previous fall supported 82% of all course’s choices within the on-line, hybrid and blended modes.”
Her supervisor, Lisa Dubuc, added, “As if she didn’t already present her dedication to NCCC by means of all her earlier years, this yr she was one of the devoted and versatile workers I’ve ever labored with.”
NCCC continued, “By Donna’s wonderful customer support abilities, she has constructed a wonderful rapport with college, workers and college students. She is a real skilled dedicated to the NCCC neighborhood, and proved herself to be deserving of the Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Categorised Service.”
Yager has devoted her life to nursing for over 40 years, and has supported NCCC since 1992. NCCC defined, “Because the Wellness Middle nurse, Cheri has contact with college students, college, workers, directors, kids within the youngster growth heart, and guests. The Wellness Middle and her position there have developed through the years to higher serve the wants of the neighborhood and now consists of counseling providers.
“Within the spring of 2020, Cheri took a lead position in making certain security on campus amidst the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic. She has afforded her experience and analysis into the COVID transmission, illustration on the NCCC reopening committee, and growth of procedures and protocols particular to COVID. She equipped her private cellphone and entry for seek the advice of when different campus departments have been closed for any one that had questions pertaining to accessing campus once we had COVID screening protocols in place. She even used her private automobile and bank card to assist safe PPE for the faculty.
“Cheri was instrumental in getting NARCAN and AED items on campus as requirements of care have necessitated this transition. She put collectively emergency NARCAN packing containers for the campus and scholar housing to permit NCCC to be the primary school within the space to have such a useful resource. Moreover, Cheri contributes within the nursing curriculum advisory board at NCCC. Cheri’s dedication to the well being and security of the NCCC neighborhood is obvious, and he or she actually embodies the requirements of the Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Skilled Service.”