The University of Minnesota Morris recognizes the outstanding service of its employees. The Outstanding Support Staff award will be presented to one employee in each of the following groups:
- Civil Service/LELS
- AFSCME Clerical and Technical
- Teamster represented employees
Each Outstanding Support Staff Award is $500.
Criteria
Candidates for the Outstanding Support Staff Award should meet each of the criteria listed below.
Job performance and competence
The candidate should be an outstanding employee. The supervisor will endorse the nomination.
Cooperative spirit and helping attitude
The candidate should exhibit a cooperative spirit and a helpful attitude. The nomination will include examples of the candidate’s contributions to creating an open spirit of cooperation across unit lines. The candidate may be described as approachable, receptive, friendly, welcoming, helpful, encouraging and/or communicative.
Innovative ideas
The candidate should contribute to the success of the unit and the people it serves by regularly offering helpful ideas to increase unit efficiency and/or effectiveness, for example.
Added dimension (including university service)
The candidate should contribute to the campus community, through participation on committees, University activities or volunteering on campus, for example.
Nomination Process
Nominations
- will address each criteria in 3-5 sentences - longer statements or attachments will not be considered.
- will include examples of the employee’s outstanding work,
- must be endorsed by the employee’s supervisor for full consideration.
Employees may only receive this award one time in their UMN Morris career.
When writing the nomination it may be useful to get input from other employees. The selection of Outstanding Support Staff Award recipients will be based on the content of the nomination submitted and will not be based on the number of nominators or nominations received. If you are nominating someone, please consider informing the employee of the nomination before the event or after.
Nominators may be contacted for further information about the nomination that they have submitted. The supervisor of employee nominated needs to review and sign the form prior to submitting. Bryan Herrmann, on behalf of Chancellor Behr and the UMN Morris community, will send a congratulatory letter to the award recipients and their supervisors. This letter and a copy of the nomination will go in the employee’s personnel file.
The Labor Management Team will select the Outstanding Support Staff Award recipients. Anyone on the Labor Management Team that has nominated another employee, or is a nominee for the award, will be excused from the voting for that group. The supervisor of each recipient will pick up a congratulatory letter from Human Resources and deliver to recipient. Each recipient and a guest are invited to the Faculty/Staff Recognition Dinner where they will be recognized and have dinner compliments of UMN Morris.
Nominations will open for the next award round in early 2026.