President's Office

President's Office: Staff Recognition Program

2011 RCNJ President’s Staff Recognition Award Recipients

The Ramapo College of New Jersey President’s Staff Recognition Program recognizes excellence and extraordinary effort demonstrated by Ramapo College employees. The 2011 Staff Recognition Award Recipients include:

Johnie Burton Human Resources Staff Excellence in Service Award	Kathleen Finnegan Athletics Staff Leadership Award	Helen Grey Academic Media Services Staff Leadership Award
Jennifer Tunnicliffe President’s Office Staff Leadership Award	Carole Weingarten School of Contemporary Arts Staff Leadership Award

Staff Recogntion Press Release

Previous Staff Recognition Award Winners (PDF)

Purpose

The President's Staff Recognition Program recognizes excellence and extraordinary effort demonstrated by Ramapo College employees (non-faculty).

Criteria

The President's Staff Recognition Program consists of two categories:

1. Staff Leadership (up to 3 recipients)  

Awarded to a Ramapo College staff member who, in that year, assumed a leadership role and successfully effected positive change.

Staff Leadership is awarded to one employee within each employee category:

• Manager
• Professional Unionized Staff (AFT or CWA) – non-faculty
• Other Unionized Staff (CWA or IFPTE)

The Staff Leadership category recognizes individuals who have demonstrated leadership while contributing to building an effective and positive work environment that strengthens teamwork, improves efficiencies, and achieves a service-oriented approach to the work of the College. Individuals nominated should demonstrate at least three of the following qualities:

• Successfully leading a team to complete a significant institutional project
• Motivating others to perform at an exceptional level through morale building exercises or exemplary work
• Identifying a specific recurring issue on campus and implementing practices to resolve the issue or leading the effort to develop a response
• Assuming additional assignments and challenging projects to advance the goals of the unit/division/College
• Going above and beyond to ensure the health, safety and security of faculty, staff and/or students under extraordinary circumstances
• Others as appropriate

* Please describe three specific examples that illustrate how the nominee demonstrates the qualities listed above *

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2. Staff Excellence in Service (one individual/group recipient)

Awarded to an individual or recognized group that, in that year, provided exemplary service to college constituents.
The Staff Excellence in Service category recognizes individuals, units/departments or other recognized groups who foster cooperation, collaboration and open communication.  Individuals or recognized groups nominated should demonstrate at least three of the following qualities:

• Excellent constituent service which met a special need of a student, visitor, colleague or faculty member evidenced by feedback from the community
• Sincere cooperation, positive attitude and exceptional willingness to assist others
• Action or behavior which enhanced the morale of others
• Willingness to go beyond the limits of a job description to further the goals of the College
• A commitment to the spirit of diversity and behavior which demonstrates inclusion of persons who are members of traditionally underrepresented groups
• Outstanding acts of public service above and beyond the duties and responsibilities of the employee's position which reflect credit upon Ramapo College of New Jersey
• Others as appropriate

* Please describe specific examples that illustrate how the nominee demonstrates three of the qualities listed above *

Eligibility

The President’s Staff Recognition Program Committee will review the eligibility of nominees in accord with the following criteria. Nominees must:

1. be permanent, full-time staff (non-faculty)
2. be employed in current position for at least one full year at the time of nomination
3. be free from any disciplinary actions for the past five years

** Once an employee is recognized for a President’s award, he/she is ineligible to be nominated for five years. Within the five years, individual award recipients shall not be excluded from being recognized as a member of a group (Staff Excellence in Service).

Nomination Process

• Nominations may be made by students, staff or faculty members.  Employees may nominate themselves.  Nominations may be submitted electronically via the Employee Recognition Website form or turned into the Office of Human Resources.
• Applications must be submitted by April 22 each year.  The review period is the previous twelve months.  Applications are available online and in hard copy in the Department of Human Resources.
• Would you like to nominate someone for an award but would like some support in authoring or submitting the nomination form? No problem, contact Committee chairs Bill Stovall (ext.7506, D108, bstovall@ramapo.edu) or Brittany Goldstein (ext. 7609, M-202A, bwillia1@ramapo.edu). Bill and Brittany would be pleased to connect you to any needed assistance!

Selection Committee

• All nominations will be reviewed by the President's Staff Recognition Program Committee.
• This committee will be appointed by the President and co-chaired by the Director of Human Resources and the Special Assistant to the President.
• Nominations will be confirmed with unit supervisors/division heads to ensure validity.
• The committee will make final recommendations to the President, who will then make the final selection.
• Committee members are not permitted to submit nominations for awards.
• Committee members shall maintain the confidentiality of all nominations.
• Committee members nominated for awards shall have the option to decline the nomination or shall recuse themselves from committee service.
• Winning recipients will serve on the selection committee the following year.

Recognition and Presentation

• Individual and group recipients will be recognized with a personalized inscribed plaque in addition to having their name inscribed on a college-wide plaque that will be displayed in the Trustees Pavilion.
• Recipients will be announced at the Annual Picnic in May, with formal presentation at the June Board of Trustees meeting.
• Individual and group recipients shall receive a summary of their nominations/noted contributions in the form of a letter from the President copied to their personnel file.
• Recipient names and photos will be included on the Web.
• Individual and group nominees shall be notified of their nomination after the award recipients are announced.

  The program will be reviewed annually based on the availability of funds and the merit of the nominations.

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