Supervisor of the Year - 2024 | Student Employment

Supervisors of the Year

The Office of Student Employment is happy to announce the 3rd annual Student Employee Supervisor of the Year Program! Each year, supervisors across campus can be nominated for their outstanding work with student employees.

A committee will then take into consideration a variety of factors and select one candidate to hold the title of Supervisor of the Year.

Click here to see past winners!

Zak Kroger

2024 Supervisor of the year

He is flexible with our schedules and makes an effort to schedule us with organizations that are interesting to us so we get a chance to speak with them. He goes out of his way to make UCCS Downtown not just a great place for the community of Colorado Springs, but for his student employees as well. He has given us so many opportunities to learn and grow with skills that we can use outside of college. He markets UCCS well using connections he has made in the community to get pictures in newsletters and pamphlets. The space is so busy now there is hardly ever a night off, which was not the case a year and a half ago before he started. He truly wants the best for UCCS and its Downtown presence, as well as for the people that work for him and that is why he deserves this award.

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"Zak is an excellent person, boss, and UCCS representative. He has gone above and beyond to make sure the space is used in the most effective way and emphasizes the importance of making connections within the community. Not only is he amazing at his job but he is kind to his employees as well."

Student Employee Supervisor Honorable Mention

Tory Patsis

AUX EVENT SERVICES

Superb understanding with an attention to detail that is greatly appreciated.

Brenna Hoff

REGISTRAR

I have worked as a student employee for the office of registrar for the past 6-7 months and I will say my senior student employee Ms. Brenna Hoff has been an outstanding co-worker and mentor to not only me but the numerous new student employees that have been taken onto the registrar student employee team. She is preparing to graduate and move onto bugger and better things and it literally brings the moral down in our entire office when we talk about it. She will be greatly missed and I think this is the perfect recognition for this her efforts. She has worked for the registrars office as a student employee her entire duration with UCCS and has most definitely touched the lives and assisted every student and faculty member at least once. All done with the most knowledge, most kindness, most professionalize, and most effort I've seen come from a student worker. I aspire to will her shoes when she moves on into bigger, better things but I know that won't be possible. As a soon to be senior student employee within the registrar's office I would like to nominate Brenna because she's simply amazing and I would strongly think everyone else "student employee wise" would support me in sending in this nomination. I know for a fact the faculty would nominate her if they could. So Please Pick HER!

Nominating a Student Employee Supervisor

Student employees, colleagues, and campus community members may nominate any number of student employee supervisors for Student Employee Supervisor of the Year by submitting a Campus Nomination Form and a one page Submission Letter. Up to three letters of reference may also be submitted and will be used in judging the UCCS competition only.

Return the completed forms to the Student Employment Office by 5:00pm, Friday, April 5th, 2024. (the Campus Nomination Form and one page Submission Letter are word documents which should be completed and submitted via the Campus Nomination Form link and adding attachments. Late nomination forms will not be accepted.

In honor of National Student Employment Appreciation Week, we would like to also recognize our outstanding student employee supervisors! Students, colleagues, and campus community members can submit the nomination form electronically to our office to recognize their supervisor, past or present. Our student employees and their leaders have such a large impact on our campus and community and we would like to acknowledge that!

Below are the requirements that supervisors must meet in order to be nominated. A student can nominate more than one supervisor, however only one winner will be chosen. The winner will be notified the week of April 8^th, 2024 in line with National Student Employment Appreciation week, where we will also announce our winner of Student Employee of the Year. Nominees for both programs will also be acknowledged on our website.

Minimum Requirements

Must supervise at least one student employee
An active UCCS employee, off campus work study supervisors are ineligible

Along with Supervisor of the Year, we have created a Kudoboard in order for student employees, supervisors, and peers to recognize one another. The board is available and will be posted on our website for Student Employment Appreciation Week.