STAR Moment Award
Every day in the Division of Student Affairs individual staff members do incredible work, often going above and beyond their required job duties. The STAR Moment recognition program allows any staff member in Student Affairs to recognize their peers or student employees at the Divisional level for these displays of outstanding work. Recipients are selected on a monthly basis. Additionally, a STAR Moment of the Year award will be given at the STAR Awards ceremony each spring.
Examples of STAR Moments
- Providing exceptional service to students or colleagues
- Developing a creative or innovative idea
- Being persistent in completing a task
- Showing determination to meet a goal
- Motivating students or colleagues
- Demonstrating significant improvement
- Solving a difficult problem
How to nominate
Complete the online nomination form.
Nominations made by the last day of each month will be considered for the STAR Moment award of the month. After the selection is made, the winners and the nominators will be notified.
Recognition
- Each month's winners (one staff member and one student employee) will be sent a STAR certificate and small token of recognition.
- An email will be sent to the Division recognizing the STAR Moments of the month and the recipients will be listed on the Student Affairs website.
- A STAR Moment of the Year will be selected from the monthly winners and the award will be added to the annual STAR Awards recognition ceremony.
Direct questions to Angell Howard, Chair of the Professional Development Committee, at (309) 438-0803.
STAR Awards Recipients List
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2024 STAR Moment of the Month Recipients
Danielle Nussbaum (January)
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2023 STAR Moment of the Month Recipients
Danielle Nussbaum & Kyan Stuart (October), Maren Keller (September), Chelsea Hood (August), Terri Jordan-Lantz (July), Megan Slater (January)
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2022 STAR Moment of the Month Recipients
Jill Benson (June), Kevin McCrone (April), Maria Ross (January)
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2021 STAR Moment of the Month Recipients
Debbie Ungson-Walbert (October), John Dennis (September), Shayla Dennis (August), Mollie Alden & Erica Escalante (July), Yelyse Walls & Morrigan Hartley (June), Ray Rivera (April), Megan McKinnon (March), Matthew Horton (January)
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2020 STAR Moment of the Month Recipients
Chelsea Wooden & Ayanna Whitehead (December), Lupe Montalvo & Blair Canedy (November), Amanda Goggin (October), Andee Radliff (September), Megan Patterson (June), Harriett Steinbach & Hannah Belke (April), Suni Brown & Caitlyn Kant (March), Guillaume Chamukenge & Jessica Godsey (January)
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2019 STAR Moment of the Month Recipients
Larry Raglan & Koraima Carillo (October), Michael Gardner & Mark Will (September), Diana Nelson (August), Margaret Schmid (April), Kyle Vann & Violet Benn (March), Bobbie Stevens & Maria Villalobos (February), Ezra Lowry (January)
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2018 STAR Moment of the Month Recipients
Joaquin Garza (December), Ursula Ganci (November), Jessika Jones & Brooklynn Scharwark (September), Dante Corbin & Kyle Lieberman (August), Annie Weaver & Matthew Byrne (July), Alyssa Stasicky (June), Quanisha Kumi-Darfour (May), Pam Cooper & Lisa DeWeert (April), Erik Scearce & Jessica Marsh (Feb), Julie Shaffer (Jan)
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2017 STAR Moment of the Month Recipients
Dottie Trickey & Hunter Thomas (Dec), Chanel O'Neal & Logan Ingersoll (Nov), Paul Lattan & Grant Lindgren (Oct) Officer Bob Malone (Sept) Eric Waltrip & Drew Ison (July), Christina Fransen & Dr. Chris Nulty (May), Kelsey Orrill & Jade Triplett (March), Corporal Grant Avery (Jan)
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2016 STAR Moment of the Month Recipients
Hannah Mesouani (October) Tyler Hoobler (April), Josh Marron & Sarah Sadler (March)
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2016 STAR Moment of the Year Recipients
Rachel Kuehl