Cindy Slater, Pam Larick and Emily Watson Outstanding Staff Award Winners April 19, 2012

The College of Education is proud to announce that three staff members have been selected to receive The University of Texas at Austin’s Outstanding Staff Award. The 2012 winners are Cindy Slater, Pam Larick and Emily Watson.

Honorees will receive a certificate and a $1,500 honorarium at the President’s Staff Award ceremony on May 4.

Slater is associate director for library services at the H.J. Lutcher Stark Center for Physical Culture and Sports. She came to the Stark Center from the U.S. Olympic Committee Training Center in Colorado Springs, where she was manager of their library and archives for over 20 years. As one of the few “sports librarians” in the country, Slater has extensive experience with sport science and medicine literature as well as Olympic-related documentation and organizations.  She’s responsible for organizing and cataloguing the more than 30,000 volumes in the center’s library collection and assists students with physical culture-related research.

 

As admissions counselor for the Department of Educational Psychology, Larick is responsible for processing all student applications that the department receives. For 2012-13, they received around 500 applications.  Larick also is the primary contact for both current applicants and prospective applicants, and she works closely with the graduate adviser as well as area chairs and program directors. Once the admissions cycle is over, Larick coordinates new student orientation in addition to managing the new student/new faculty reception. Another of her key responsibilities is working with faculty members who are going up for faculty and tenure promotion review and preparing their dossiers and other applicable materials for submission to the provost’s office.

 

Watson is director for the Institute for Public School Initiative’s Advise Texas Program, and her duties include recruiting, hiring, supervising and evaluating 21 college advisers in El Paso, Austin and Dallas. She makes site visits to the schools and works to develop and maintain beneficial working relationships with partner districts and high school staff. Watson also organizes and presents summer training sessions and professional development classes for the advisers; assists with budgets and grant reports; works on program promotion and evaluation; collects data; and assists with fundraising.

 

The staff awards recognize significant contributions of extraordinary non-teaching staff. This year 30 university employees and two supervisors are being honored with the prestigious university-wide honor.

—Kay Randall, University Communications, 512-232-3910