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Maureen Nelson has been nominated for UNCW’s 2023 Staff Award for Excellence! Please join us in congratulating Maureen on this great accomplishment.

Maureen was nominated by Sharon Baucom, the Direcotor of Facilities Administration. Below is an excert from Maureen's nomination letter:

As the Facilities Staffing Specialist, Maureen is often seen dashing down the hall to an orientation or interview or delivering much needed assistance to one of our many hiring officials. Facilities routinely has at least a  dozen recruitments going on at the same time. To her, every hire is special and in Facilities there is at least one every week.

 

She does this, as a fellow Facilities director shared with me, “with her quality character, professional attitude and caring interpersonal skills”.

 

But the real story to share is about the students she took under her wing during last year’s Facilities inaugural internship program. Although it was a Facilities initiative, Maureen owned it from start to finish. She started with a blank page and took on soliciting, recruitment, hiring, mentoring, and even - mothering - to four young men from various state universities who arrived eager to be involved in some “real world” engineering activity. Maureen secured their housing and meals by negotiating with our campus partners, arranged workstations where none existed, helped them with payroll forms and made sure they had everything they needed for success.