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UTSA University Excellence Awards
The goal of the UTSA University Excellence Awards is to honor outstanding UTSA staff across the tri-campuses who demonstrate excellent work performance. Six University Excellence Awards are presented for emerging leadership, dynamic leadership, teamwork, extraordinary initiative and overall excellence. Read descriptions of the awards below. The awards are:
- The Rising Star Award
- The Leadership Award
- The Team Spirit Award
- The Extra Mile Award
- The Order of the Roadrunner Award
Additionally, the Richard S. Howe Excellence in Service to Undergraduate Students Award is presented to faculty and staff members who have shown exemplary commitment to UTSA undergraduates and have gone above and beyond the call of duty in service to UTSA undergraduate students. The recipient(s) of this award could receive up to $2,000.
For descriptions of the awards, please see below. Teams or workgroups who are selected will share the monetary award.
At the ceremony honoring the recipients of the University Excellence Awards, we recognize employees who have reached milestones in their length of service with the University. Additionally, retirees from the previous year are invited back to receive a token gift of our appreciation.
This is a great opportunity to recognize our outstanding and dedicated staff and their contributions to UTSA.
UTSA University Excellence Awards Descriptions
- The Rising Star Award
The Rising Star Award recipient must be a new employee with less than (3) three years of continuous service with the University and who has made significant contributions throughout the year to his or her area, or to the University community. This individual has innovative ideas and has made significant contributions. They have a demonstrated record of improvement, have progressed through cooperation, initiative, and are self-starters with a take-charge attitude. This talented employee has volunteered to assist when and where needed.
- The Leadership Award
The Leadership Award recipient must be currently functioning in a supervisory capacity; has promoted departmental and University mission and goals through actions and job performance; demonstrated exceptional leadership ability; fostered a positive and motivating work environment; maintained open communication lines within the department and throughout UTSA; encouraged professional development; demonstrated fairness and equity in resolving employee and work-related issues and remained receptive to constructive feedback concerning his or her own job performance.
- The Team Spirit Award
The Team Spirit Award will be awarded to a group of staff employees who has demonstrated exceptional ability to foster collaboration, communication, and cooperation among colleagues internal and/or external to their department. The team’s action has significantly improved customer service or increased customer satisfaction for specific UTSA customers; has significantly improved a work process or system or has significantly increased the productivity and efficiency of an operation or work unit.
- The Extra Mile Award
The Extra Mile Award recognizes an individual with (3) three years or more of continuous service with UTSA and who has taken the initiative to contribute to the success of UTSA through his or her outstanding contributions at work. Extra efforts demonstrated in their accomplishments, timeliness, and follow-through, willingness to help fellow employees; provide good customer service with creativity, dedication, cooperation and reliability. He or she has performed at a level above and beyond normal job requirements that have resulted in furthering the department’s and UTSA’s goals and mission.
- The Order of the Roadrunner Award
The Order of the Roadrunner Award will be given to an individual who demonstrates exemplary service and commitment to UTSA and the achievement of its goals through his or her actions throughout the year. This individual has enhanced the quality of work-life in ways that significantly increase productivity and efficiency for colleagues or customers to include developing creative solutions; provided outstanding and ongoing excellence in services to faculty, staff, students, and/or other UTSA customers. This is the highest honor that a UTSA staff member can receive for his or her dedication to the UTSA community
- The Richard S. Howe Excellence in Service to Undergraduate Students Award
The Richard S. Howe Excellence in Service to Undergraduate Students Award was established in 2002 through a gift to the university by Mrs. Walter W. McAllister Jr. and is named in honor of longtime engineering professor Richard S. Howe. This award is presented to faculty or staff members who have shown exemplary commitment towards UTSA undergraduates. The recipients of this award must have demonstrated a strong commitment to teaching and/or service to undergraduate students, served as an advocate for undergraduate education and engaged in activities to promote student access and success.
