Dear UC Berkeley Community,
On behalf of Berkeley’s Council on Advising and Student Support and our awards planning committee, we are delighted to announce the recipients of our 2022 Excellence in Advising and Student Services Awards. We would like to express our sincere gratitude to all of the nominators who took the time to recognize the impactful contributions of our recipients on student learning, engagement, and belonging on the Berkeley campus. Congratulations to each of the award recipients on this important achievement. Recipients and their nominators have been invited to the 2022 Excellence in Advising and Student Services Awards ceremony on Monday, December 12.
The entire advising and student services community is invited to join us in Celebrating Our Collective Efforts, a virtual event, on Thursday, December 15, 1:30-3:00 p.m. PT via Zoom. We look forward to celebrating our ongoing hard work and dedication to supporting students. We also look forward to spending well-deserved time together for some much needed joy, laughter, music, games, and some amazing giveaways/prizes! There will be opportunities to share kudos and gratitude with each other. RSVP now for this event.
We encourage everyone to add words of gratitude and thanks to individuals and teams within our student services community on this 2022 Kudoboard.
Thank you for making Berkeley a better place for students and for all of us.
Sincerely,
Lisa García Bedolla, Vice Provost for Graduate Studies and Dean of the Graduate Division
Dania Matos, Vice Chancellor, Equity & Inclusion
Oliver M. O’Reilly, Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education
Stephen C. Sutton, Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs
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2022 Excellence in Advising and Student Services Awards Recipients
Please see the Advising and Student Services Awards webpage for more detail, including names of team members.
Equity Champion
- Marcia Garcia, Basic Needs Center
- Leanna Lewis, UC Berkeley-UCSF Joint Medical Program
Excellence in Data and/or Research-Driven Student Services
- Judy Smithson, Berkeley Public Health
Outstanding Advising or Student Services Administrator, Director, or Manager
- Quin Hussey, School of Public Health
- Sarah Maxim, Center for Southeast Asia Studies
- Andrea Rex, Graduate Division
Outstanding Advisor or Student Services Staff
- Temple Byars, Rausser College of Natural Resources
- Kate Chase, The California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (QB3)
- Amanda Gill, Haas School of Business
- Heather Grothjan, College of Environmental Design
- Lois Koch, Department of Architecture
Outstanding New Advisor or Student Services Staff
- Jordan Elmowitz, Integrative Biology and Molecular and Cell Biology
- Saj Jobanputra, Basic Needs Center
- Hailey Lopez, Center for Support and Intervention
Outstanding Peer Advisor, Mentor, Counselor, or Ambassador
- Aylin Figueroa Uribe, Engineering Student Services
- Renata Jorge, Haas MBA Career Management Group
- Varsha Madapoosi, Student Environmental Resource Center
- Marisol Vasquez, Cal Student Central
Service to the Advising and Student Services Community
- Center for Support and Intervention Team
- Equity-Oriented Coaching and Advising Program Team
- Jake Tracy, Student Information Systems
Team Advising Innovation
- Engineering Student Services Advising Team
- Educational Opportunity Program and Transfer Student Center Success Counselors
- Physics Department & Astronomy Department Discovery Trailblazing Team