Texas State Student Employee of the Year

The Texas State Student Employee of the Year is Marcos Martinez. Marcos recieved a plaque and his picture will be prominently displayed on the 4th floor of the LBJ Student Center.

Marcos Martinez  |  School of Music  |  Employed 3 years & 6 Months

2009 Student Employee of the Year Nominees

These outstanding individuals were nominated by their departments to receive the Student Employee of the Year Award. 

Ronnie Bone  |  Educational Administration & Psychological Services  | Employed 1 year

Ronnie is famous for coming in early and getting right to work, whether he works at 8 a.m. or later in the day, sometimes even evenings and weekends.  Our department runs a Counseling Clinic, and Ronnie agreed to work several evenings to entertain young children while their parents had counseling sessions.  Ronnie always approaches work and life with a positive attitude.  He takes initiative, anticipates the next steps, and makes suggestions for improvements in procedures, reports and work relationships.

Brandi Brown  |  Center for Children & Families  |  Employed 1 year 3 months

She is a student that can be depended on to be at work whenever needed. When assignments are complete she has the initiative to find work to do. She is always willing to take on any task assigned with enthusiasm. She is always polite to everyone she works with, staff, visitors and other student employees. No matter what is going on personally, she always shows courtesy and total professionalism to everyone.

Monica Espinoza  |  LBJ Student Center Reservations/ Information  |  Employed 1 year

Monica assumed leadership of a group of students who were advocates for the recent fee increase for the Student Center.  Monica also is student manager of reservations and information here in the LBJ Student Center.  She inspires collaboration with her peers and anyone else she comes into contact with.  Monica has the unique ability to juggle many deadlines and responsibilities at one time and still remain cool and collected.

Frank Freeman  |  Accounting - McCoy College  |  Employed 2 years

He is professional and cheerful in performing all tasks. Frank always works with a smile on his face. He is cheerful and helps the office remain in a professional mood. He always wears appropriate clothes and displays appropriate attitude, and personal traits that makes the department proud of him. He is often interacting with counting firms and partners of the firm. His phone etiquette is superior. I use him to train the other student employees.

Carly Kavanagh  |  Environmental Health, Saftey & Risk Management  | Employed 1 year 4 months

She is able to multi task in a confident and efficient manner. She often deals with confidential matters and is able to maintain a professional attitude while communicating with the faculty or staff member without ever stepping her bounds. She helped develop the training program for student workers and Golf Cart/Utility Vehicle program. EHS has driven courtesy cars for handicap and disabled visitors during Commencement Exercises and home football games the past two years. Carly coordinates the drivers for each event as well as driving one of the carts.

Elizabeth Kozel  |  School of Social Work  |  Employed 4 years

She is extremely professional in how she not only presents herself, but how she performs her daily work. Elizabeth’s attitude is great. She is always up-going and gets along with everyone. She’s always in a good mood. She is very courteous and professional to all visitors who come into the office whether they are students, staff or faculty members.

Meagan Lobban  |  Aquarena Center RSI  |  Employed 2 years

Meagan is punctual and present for all of her shifts. She takes it upon herself to come in early if she knows that there is extra work to be completed. Meagan is a self-starter. She is given numerous tasks by at least six different supervisors, but gets them all done in a timely manner. Meagan also frequently creates her own projects. If she sees something that needs to be done, she does it without waiting to be asked. Although she is a student worker, Meagan treats her position like a professional job.

Emily Padgett  |  Physical Therapy  |  Employed 1 year

Emily was employed as a research assistant the year of 2008 and is presently employed by our same department as a Physical Therapy Clinic Assistant.  Emily was also responsible for supervising the other three research assistant. She was able to do this with great organization, tactful assertiveness and professionalism. Emily’s exceptional reliability, good communication skills, professionalism and computer/data collection skills have proven to be invaluable and this is the reason that we continue to hire Emily in our department.

Sonya Rahrovi  |  Mathematics  |  Employed 1 year

She exhibits a professional work ethic. She consistently completes all assignments with quality and in a timely fashion. She is successful at coordinating workshops from top to bottom. She looks for opportunities to elevate these types of events to a more professional setting. For example, she sends participants directions and coordinates their parking.

Isis Reed |  Witliff Collections  |  2+ years

Every day she is working Isis shows initiative.  Her extraordinary initiative comes when we have events and she is aware of time contstraints.  Isis shines when dealing with the public or with others on staff.  She offers excellent customer service to callers, patrons and staff members.

Jessica Saenz  |  ITS  |  Employed 1 year

She will often start a project or task that is left undone by her fellow co-workers, and communicate directly with all involved to bring that task to fruition, making sure everyone it affects has input before it’s completed. She recognizes the importance of collaborative development. While all of our students workers are excellent, and each have their strengths, Jessica offers the perfect organizational skills, professionalism, detail oriented, evaluative problem solving, self-motivation and exuberance.

Claudia Torres  |  College of Liberal Arts Advising Center  |  Employed 4 years

You never have to tell her to complete the same task twice because you know if you ask her to do something it will get done. There is no question she does not look for the answer for or no request too small or too large for her to complete. She helps the office run efficiently and effectively when there was no administrative assistant for many months. Claudia is the gold standard for our office; she has given us much of her time, her hard work and her positive influence. She is unique and extraordinary individual whose contributions cannot be measured.

Jerrica Wilks  |  Registrar's Office  |  Employed 7 months

She scheduled herself to work between the Fall and Spring semesters which helped out the office in one of its busiest times of the year. Student Records and the Registrar’s Office is grateful to Jerrica for going the extra mile. She does an outstanding job with anything she does. She was able to do the work of a full time staff member to a certain event. She is always professionally dressed and has a professional attitude towards everything she does in the office. She has shown us that there are great students out there willing to go the extra mile and be a supporting role in an administrative office.