She is an excellent and hard worker.  I often see her after 5 pm still working on important tasks, and she still has a smile on her face and an ear to listen.  She will easily fix problems and make sure things are running smoothly in the division.  She is easy to talk to, and makes you feel very welcome in the office.
She is always very professional with anyone who enters the office, students, faculty, staff, visitors.  One semester I had a particular distance learning student that would call weekly (at least) and was very rude to her and myself in general.  She never let it show that it bothered her on the phone, and was always completely kind and professional in her interactions with this individual.  It is this kind of environment we like in our office, set by her example.
She helps the office run very smoothly. She sends out reminders of faculty responsibilities and keeps us all informed.  She is at extra events like the Global Warming Teach In, which were totally optional.  She also will drop everything to help you in a bind, whether it be a printing job, an errand, a room assignment, a phone call, whatever it is you need, Connie treats that like it is of utmost importance.  She also is very collegial, and has sang in a musical group at several LC functions, including our division parties and the Christmas Revels.  She has a lot of talent and shares that with our LC community in a way that everyone can enjoy.  She is in a nutshell, great!

My nominee is particularly good at gently reminding me and the rest of the division of upcoming deadlines, and keeping track of when things need to completed even though it’s not her job.  For example, with book forms she will fill out the instructor, class, list previous texts, and generally fill out as much as the form as possible before sending it on to the instructor saving me a lot of time even though it’s my responsibility to get the form completed. 
Through implementation of online forms and diligence in solving problems, my nominee is always ready and willing to do what needs to be done.  Not only that, she maintains a professional manner and caring demeanor throughout the day.  I’ve seen her in a deluge of students all nervous and asking essentially the same question and she answers each one, always with a caring tone in her voice and genuine concern. 
Outside of work she is the same way toward students and staff/faculty.  Whenever she sees someone she always takes the time to say hi and visit.  She is always the one at get-togethers that will stay and help clean up and is usually first there to help set up.  My nominee attends and supports LC community events especially the arts.  Any faculty show or musical event she attends and always invites others to join.

Our division office is an organized, efficient place thanks to this employee.  It’s hard to see how much actually goes on, how much paperwork gets done and sent off to the right place, how many people are helped and how much information is imparted to the correct party because this employee makes it all look easy.  She reminds me of syllabi and book orders that I have forgotten and almost everyday, I need help with some computer or copier or printer bit of work. And she always kindly helps me.  And then I multiply the work she does for me by all the other folks in the division, and then add her other duties on to that: all that paperwork for the division chair, safety officer, STAR advising organizer and being the first person that every student, faculty and community member sees when they walk in our door.  It’s no wonder that, even at 5:30 or even 6:00 pm, I find her still in the office.  A specific example of her organizational ability is her ability to get students through STARs with little faculty help, with lots of computer issues and many students needing help.
She is incredibly patient,  I've never seen her be short tempered or anxious or unkind to anyone.  She treats everyone, students and employees, as if they were the most important person.  And she always follows through on a task until it is done.  I've never seen nor heard of her dropping the ball.
Working late, organizing our office, making the STARs successful, acting as safety person, making everyone feel special, following through on everything, never saying that she can't help, professional....she really deserves an award!

She designs, authors, edits and mails out our division newsletter.  She attends retreats and takes on full responsibility for food, shelter, and scheduling.  She either attends classes voluntarily, or self-teaches anything that she believes will improve her performance in the office.  Our division was the first to go all electronic in book ordering thanks to her willingness to work with the bookstore and learn the process.  We were one of the first to electronically register all of our new students thanks to her efforts.  When the registrar's office need a guinea pig to test out its new on-line grad checks and work out the kinks, she volunteered to do the deed. 
As but one example, STAR registrations used to be the campus nemeses.  It often took a half-dozen faculty, the chair, and all of the administrative assistants to pull one off.  She took charge and came up with folders on each STAR registrant, a complete list of trouble shooting techniques, so that now STARS can often be accomplished in under an hour with only she and a faculty member to do the deed.  When I was division chair, she quickly realized that not only was I absent-minded, but a lousy record keeper to boot.  She took over my calendar, with a friendly reminder for each duty I had to perform that day, and kept copies of everything I sent out.  She could pull up copies of three year old data sets with the ease of yesterday's e-mail.  It's not just what she does things; but the grace with which she does them.  She's never to busy to hear out a complaining faculty member, or to help one to learn to do duties such as travel documents, grad checks, pay issues, getting students on work study, and the like, or to walk a lost student to another building and get them in with the people they need to see.  I only wish I were better with words to express how valuable and valued this person is to all of us who work with her. 

When talking to students or faculty, this employee is incredibly calm, patient, and encouraging.  Students who have an issue with a fee or a hold on their records or have a problem with their schedule are often angry and worked up.  She doesn't just help them take care of the problem; she does it in a way that the student feels like she cares about them. I watched her work with a very irate student who could not register because of an unpaid fee.  By the time they were done, the student no longer felt like everyone on campus was out to get him. She goes the extra mile with international students to help them understand rules and procedures and to help them find the right office and people.
Gossip can relieve some of the tedium of an office but it can also be incredibly destructive.  She does not gossip about students or faculty or administrators or other classified staff.  Ever.
She has to do a million things, sometimes all at the same time.  But the office remains calm and a fun place to be.  She has such a positive attitude.  She never makes me feel like I shouldn't be asking her to do something because she is too busy.
She donates her incredible talents as a musician to entertain at the Christmas party and at the Natural Science spring picnic.

She is doing an outstanding job day after day. She is a very consistent and hardworking employee. During the last several years I observed and experienced her valuable assistance to me and the Mathematics & Sciences tutoring center. Each semester she assists our tutors to apply for work study. Because of her help, the majority of our tutors were awarded the work study grants that literally saved our department thousands of dollars each semester. She is an asset to our department and LCSC.
She has done a lot of extra work for our department in general and for the Mathematics & Sciences tutoring center specifically. Last year she designed a very nice and complete brochure to advertize our tutoring center. I remember that she stayed and work after five P.M. to complete that project. She is really doing way more than 9 to 5 hours of work every day. By the way, she designed and made these brochures for all of the principles in our department.
She is a very nice person. Her outstanding social skills enable her to work with all of the natural science faculty and staff. She is very friendly, very reliable, and does her job as best as possible. Again, she is an important asset to our department and LCSC.

She is the first person that anyone visiting our unit office will see, whether it is faculty, staff or student.  In this capacity, she is the perfect representative of the best qualities LCSC embodies.  She is helpful, patient and efficient in helping visitors with whatever their needs are.  She creates an inviting atmosphere and is remarkably knowledgeable about all aspects of our unit's operations.  When other unit personnel & faculty are posed a question they can’t answer, their advice is always “Go see XXXXX, she’ll know.” 
She has highly developed interpersonal skills.  She maintains good working relationships with her colleagues in the Division and around campus.  I have personally observed her to be extremely flexible in working with her peers in an effort to maintain positive working relationships, even under difficult circumstances.  She is always willing to listen and be present to people in the office, even if she has other tasks that need her attention.  I very much respect this quality in her.
What makes the above more impressive is that she handles visitors, faculty & staff so very well while at the same time executing all of her other job duties with the highest level of professionalism.  Our unit's office is a high traffic area but I have the utmost confidence in all aspects of her job duties.  She always follows through on promised work.  She has earned my trust to the highest degree:  if she promises me that something will get done, I never have to think about it again. 

Probably the best example of the above is her performance during the first week of the semester in Fall 2008.  Our office was under-staffed entering the semester.  The first week of the semester is a highly stressful time for our office, even with full staff, yet she calmly managed several minor crises including lost bookstore orders, a broken copier, over a dozen late-arriving international students that were sent to our office for advising and a myriad of smaller situations that popped up.  I received several comments from our faculty and students about her grace during difficult situations and how grateful they all were for her assistance. 
She is an ambassador in the truest sense of the word.  Not only does she go "beyond the call of duty" as noted above, but she recognizes the value of a collegial campus environment and does everything in her power to foster it.  She is the first to thank other campus units or support services for their assistance.
Within the campus unit, the word quality is synonymous with everything that she does.  Every task, whether it is book orders, I-time management, IH budgets or special artistic/publicity projects, is carried out with the same thoughtful attention to detail and quality.  It is evident that she takes great pride in her work and she always spends the time necessary to make everything just perfect.
I believe that she represents the best qualities of Lewis-Clark State College in everything she does.  Everyone that knows her on campus has the highest respect for her. 
At the same time, she never seeks recognition for her efforts on behalf of the faculty, staff & students of LCSC.  She is extremely humble.  This award would be a very positive public acknowledge of all the ways in which Lewis-Clark State College is enriched by this individual.