Classified Professional Appreciation Awards

The Classified Senate formalized a process to recognize our outstanding classified staff on an annual basis. Each year individuals and departments are selected from nominations by their peers, to be honored based on the criteria of: 

• Quality of work 
• Extra effort 
• Positive attitude 
• Dependability 
• Collaboration
• Commitment 
   

2024-2025 Recipients of the Classified Professional Appreciation Awards

• Rookie of the Year: 
  Santiago Nocito, Aimee Carillo

• Best Team Player:
  Brandon Drake, Joan Paulino

• Caring Campus Champion:
  Isabel Murrin, Lisa Hillstrom

• Special Recognition:
  Mici Benet, Jesse Harbison, Hugo Guillen

• Outstanding Department: 
  Student Activities and Advocacy
   

Past Recipients of the Classified Professional Appreciation Awards

2023-2024

• Most Inspiring Individual: 
  Grace Yuan, Kelsey Lea, Keli Gaffney, Nequeshe Dyer

• Best Team Player:
  Christelle Larre, Scott De Young, Thelina 'Tealy' Gapinksi

• Special Recognition:
  Julio Cruz, David Erlenheim, Kahea Jackson, Melinda Durfee

• Unsung Hero: 
  Bo Buckley, Ricardo Montoya Olivares, Neil Sparrow

• Outstanding Department: 
  Office of Instructional Management (OIM) 

2022-2023

• Outstanding Individual: 
  Brier Welch, Linda Terry, Gina Longo, Ramiro Perez

• Unsung Hero:
  Matthew Christman, Henry Herrera, Ellen Shaw, Jon Gudmundsson

• Outstanding Department:
  EOPS 

2021-2022

• Outstanding Individual:
  Brian Chi, Kim Foulger, Monica Applegate 

• Unsung Hero: 
  Beth Sheofsky, Wendy Lee, Andy Haber,
  Tessa Loegering, Melanie Palomino, Janis Olson

• Outstanding Department:
  Enrollment Services, Maintenance & Operations 

2020-2021

• Outstanding Individual: 
  Jesse Klein, Joanna Pinckney, Seanna Villarreal,
  Jeanette (Jenny) Davison

• Unsung Hero: 
  Sally Wong, Ron Owen

• Outstanding Department: 
  Maintenance & Operations, Campus Police, Fiscal Services,
  Human Resources, Information Technology, College Services

2019-2020

• Outstanding Individual: 
  Manny Rodriguez, Rhonda Jones, Stacey Lince, 
  Mina Namvar, Jesse Klein

• Unsung Hero:
  Gabriel Lambert, Nequeshe Dyer

• Outstanding Department: 
  Reprographics, Fiscal Services

2018-2019

• Outstanding Individual:  
  Russel Staffen, Shook Chung, Dianne O’Donnelly, 
  Monica Rudolph, Keli Gaffney, Carol Schwartz 

• Unsung Hero: 
  Burton Shane, Bill Wadsworth 

• Outstanding Department: 
  Maintenance & Operations 

• Special Recognition/High Achievement Award: 
  Kathy Joyner 

2017 - 2018

• Outstanding Individual: 
  Rhonda Jones

• Outstanding Department: 
  Fiscal Services

• Unsung Hero: 
  Lupe Romo Padilla, Joseph Scarcella