Today's Update: Friday, March 8, 2024

March 8, 2024

Dear Student Life team, 

Happy High Five Friday. 

High Five to Dilna Cama for agreeing to give a last-minute presentation on the Off-Campus Housing Network to a group of campus partners. Dilna did an outstanding job and is truly an expert in supporting our off-campus and commuter students. 

Jordan Smoot in the Center for the Study of Student Life gets a High Five for winning the ACPA Graduate Student and New Professional Community of Practice's Outstanding Dedication to Professional Service Award. 

OSUPD wrote to thank our Housing and Residence Education team for their help with a student who needed support. High Fives especially to HRE’s Abby Huffman and Katie Duffy. As the officer put it, “Your helpful nature and collaboration let us ultimately get some of the help he needed.” 
 
Sphinx and Mortar Board recently held their faculty/staff reception and honored a number of Student Life team members. High Fives to Seneca Crump, Dave DeAngelo, Julius Mayo, Charity Martin King and Jen Pelletier. 

High Five to Zach Redecker from Risk and Emergency Management for dropping everything and showing up on a Saturday to help with an urgent Facilities issue.  

The Big 10 Men’s Swimming and Diving Championship was held at McCorkle last week through a Rec Sports partnership with Athletics. High Fives to our aquatics team members for their outstanding work, including Phil Julson, Christine Thompson, Ben Roberts, Jacob Rehfus and James Berry. 

High Five to Nick Pangio of Rec Sports, who earned this praise from a colleague in the Office of Institutional Equity, “He (Nick) is one of the best program admins we have, and consistently on the ball with training, compliance and even giving me a heads-up about youth involved events around campus, or issues that might need my attention.” 

Since next week is Spring Break, and, since in Today’s Update this past Tuesday I asked you to use some of that time recharging, I won’t do a High Five Friday Update next week. But of course, I’ll be back after that with more celebrations of our awesome Student Life team.  

Have a Scarlet and Great weekend and Spring Break!  

 

Melissa S. Shivers, PhD  
Senior Vice President for Student Life   
The Ohio State University