Employee Recognition Program: Cistern Standard

Examples of Core Value Observations

• Integrity

  • Thoroughly following designated office or institutional standards (i.e.; accounting, human resources, or FM standards (APPA, FERPA)
  • Demonstrating reliability and trustworthiness by respecting colleagues and College's facilities.
  • Showing respect to others with whom you are interacting, even during difficult situations or conversations.
  • Consistently striving to produce high-quality work
  • When made aware of errors, accepting responsibility, and demonstrating a commitment to improving (and evidence of such)
  • Challenging biases and/or countering discrimination with care
  • Consistently demonstrating respect for the personal boundaries of others
  • Consistently monitoring colleagues

• Academic Excellence

  • Offering time to mentor or advise students
  • Engaging students outside the classroom via extracurricular programming, student research, and quality advising
  • Ensuring that classrooms and laboratories are consistently cleaned, stocked, and quipped so students can learn
  • Promoting the College's academic programs
  • Consistently mentoring colleagues or encouraging lifelong learning in colleagues
  • Inviting a professor to a team lunch
  • Encouraging team members to take advantage of professional development opportunities and/or college courses
  • Partaking in our Employee Tuition Assistance Program
  • Participating in multiple learning opportunities on or off campus each semester, including LinkedIn learning courses, Diversity Edu, Coursera, or other certificate earning programs
  • Applying culturally responsive practices to support a variety of learning preferences (i.e., cultural, linguistic, ability, etc.)

• Liberal Arts Education

  • Consistently encouraging and supporting different viewpoints
  • Creating opportunities for different areas to collaborate to expand viewpoints
  • Encouraging extracurricular and interdisciplinary student engagement through advising, mentorship, and opportunities to actively engage in research
  • Inviting cross-campus perspectives to present at departmental/divisional meetings to open dialogue about another part of campus
  • Going to a roundtable discussion on campus
  • Taking the initiative to learn a new skill from another colleague

• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

  • Demonstrating respect for all colleagues through actions
  • Creating opportunities for welcoming and including others
  • Helping promote DEI events/webinars/opportunities with campus colleagues; suggesting topics for DEI-focused programs to own department
  • Integrating classroom opportunities via assignments, discussions, etc. that support respectful and open discussions about race, intersectionality, and associated inequities
  • Creating an office environment that cultivates a sense of belonging
  • Consistently seeking input from multiple backgrounds/perspectives on important matters
  • Partnering with historically underrepresented groups to identify and close equity gaps
  • Seeking out and/or supporting the work, art, and businesses of historically underrepresented groups
  • Exercising humility about historic and ongoing oppression or creating spaces to discuss race, intersectionality, and associated inequities
  • Consistently demonstrating respect for staff, faculty, and student self-identification and/or self-expression (i.e., use of preferred pronouns, correctly pronouncing others; names, etc.)

• Student Centeredness

  • Focusing on students' needs through exemplary customer service
  • Providing enthusiasm daily to their position
  • Volunteering for move-in week or other campus opportunities to interact with students
  • Responding to students' needs via conscientious advising
  • Providing research opportunities for students
  • Often going beyond expectations to support student learning or personal needs
  • Consistently engaging with students via extra-curricular activities, such as student clubs, honor societies, etc.
  • Consistently receiving positive feedback from students about their role on campus
  • Striving to build new or revise existing programs or supports around student input
  • Diligently working to improve the experiences of students from historically underrepresented  groups
  • Consistently demonstrating respect for student self-identification and/or self-expression (i.e., use of preferred pronouns, correct pronunciation of students' names, etc.)

• Innovation

  • Taking positive approaches to meeting the needs of students, staff, faculty, or CofC community
  • Facilities Management employee recommending new way of managing inventory for their work unit that increases efficiency
  • Prioritizing the growth and well-being of members in the CofC community
  • Leading or mentoring colleagues to support the betterment of the College, the community, and individuals
  • Coordinating a small group of CofC volunteers for community engagement/or recruiting some volunteers for a community project on behalf of the College
  • Building upon or scaling existing community relationships to welcome and include historically underrepresented community leaders
  • Building sustainable partnerships or enhancing existing partnerships between campus members and community organizations
  • Collaborating with groups or organizations that effectively support a variety of social justice issues

• Public Mission

  • Creating or sharing a creative solution to a department, facility, technology, or college problem
  • Identifying and proposing a cost saving solution
  • Proposing how two departments or two divisions can team up to save resources on a project (i.e., can a department help grounds do planting once a year?)
  • Creating new and/or expanding on existing initiatives that reinforce a more inclusive and welcoming campus community