Transformative Pride Recognition Program This employee recognition program is designed to create a culture of peer appreciation and recognition for providing colleagues a transformative experience.

There are four categories of recognition of peers or colleagues in the division.

Was the Difference

- Recognizes a colleague witnessed taking a step that was beyond the protocol/practice/role to positively influence the course of a student's day.
- Eligibility: All DSA staff
- Who can recommend: Peer to Peer, Supervisory/Non-Supervisor

Pride at Play:

-Recognizes a colleague whose contribution through volunteerism, leadership or making a connection helped raise the visibility of the department or division or institution in the broader community
- Eligibility: All DSA staff
- Who can recommend: Peer to Peer, Supervisory/Non-Supervisor; Director-Level and above

Made it Simple:

- Recognizes a colleague who demonstrated operational excellence; or who has simply done something intentional that made the workday or workplace a fun/pleasant place to be.
- Eligibility: All DSA staff; or Campus Partner outside the division
- Who can recommend: Peer to Peer, Supervisory/Non-Supervisor

"Showed-Up and Showed Out" (for Leadership Team only)

- Recognizes someone who:
  • Shared a resource that supported a budget gap
  • Demonstrated compassion for a colleague having difficulty showing up themselves
  • Offered a solution in a supportive way
  • Offered their talent without being asked, or without asking for credit.
  • Made a contribution through volunteerism, leadership, or making a connection helped raise the visibility of the department or division, or institution in the regional or statewide community

- Eligibility: Director-level and UP only
- Who can recommend: Director to Director; AVC /VC/ Business Officer to Director; VC recognizes someone from VC Suite; someone in VC Suite recommends someone else in VC Suite