{"id":1253,"date":"2026-04-29T19:21:03","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T19:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/staffsenate\/?p=1253"},"modified":"2026-04-29T19:22:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T19:22:32","slug":"2025-26-staff-appreciation-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/staffsenate\/2026\/04\/29\/2025-26-staff-appreciation-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"2025-26 Staff Appreciation Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On April 1st the Staff Senate hosted the annual staff appreciation event. The annual staff appreciation event looks to recognize outstanding individuals nominated by their peers and looks to uplift them. Around 100+ staff members attended the event and the staff senate provided a variety of different raffle prizes.<\/p>\n<p>The winners of the staff appreciation event were as follows:<\/p>\n<h2>Outstanding Staff Awards <a href=\"http:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/staffsenate\/files\/2026\/04\/StaffAwards_092.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1254 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/staffsenate\/files\/2026\/04\/StaffAwards_092-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/staffsenate\/files\/2026\/04\/StaffAwards_092-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/staffsenate\/files\/2026\/04\/StaffAwards_092-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/staffsenate\/files\/2026\/04\/StaffAwards_092-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/staffsenate\/files\/2026\/04\/StaffAwards_092-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/staffsenate\/files\/2026\/04\/StaffAwards_092-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/staffsenate\/files\/2026\/04\/StaffAwards_092-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Diane Syler: Assistant Director of Student Accounts<\/li>\n<li>Julie Frozlan Ferralez: Director of Academic Advising<\/li>\n<li>Minasie Theophilos: Custodian<\/li>\n<li>Marcus Carrigan: Strommen Center for Career Services and Program Associate for Center for Global Education and Experience<\/li>\n<li>Ellie Olson: Director of Wellness and Counseling<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Newcomer Award<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Zinnia Coy: Program Manager for Food Initiatives<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Department of the Year<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Residence Life<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Years of Service<\/h2>\n<h3><strong>Five Years<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Hayley Selinski<\/p>\n<p>Zekarias G-michale<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Ten Years<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Dawn Miller<\/p>\n<p>Nicholas St. Aubin<\/p>\n<p>Jacob Swede<\/p>\n<p>Christine Berkenpas<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Fifteen Years<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Franz Santander<\/p>\n<p>Margo Abramson<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Twenty Years<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Aynalem Dawo<\/p>\n<p>Tsion Gudeta<\/p>\n<p>Amanda Burgess<\/p>\n<p>Keith Bateman<\/p>\n<p>Woinshet Abebe<\/p>\n<p>Aaron Griess<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Twenty-Five Years<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Tom Kelsey<\/p>\n<p>Scott Krajewski<\/p>\n<p>Cory Snyder<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Thirty Years<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Drew Privette<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Thirty-Five Years<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Diane Syler<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Forty Years<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Kathleen Kuross<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On April 1st the Staff Senate hosted the annual staff appreciation event. The annual staff appreciation event looks to recognize outstanding individuals nominated by their peers and looks to uplift them. Around 100+ staff members attended the event and the staff senate provided a variety of different raffle prizes. The winners of the staff appreciation &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/staffsenate\/2026\/04\/29\/2025-26-staff-appreciation-awards\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;2025-26 Staff Appreciation Awards&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1152,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/staffsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/staffsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/staffsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/staffsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1152"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/staffsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1253"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/staffsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1260,"href":"https:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/staffsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253\/revisions\/1260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/staffsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/staffsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/staffsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}