Staff Employee of the Month
The purpose of the MSU High Five Award is to recognize staff who have served MSU in an exceptional manner by exemplifying outstanding service through his or her work and exhibiting a positive and supportive attitude.
The MSU High Five Award was created to recognize staff members for their outstanding contributions to the university. Each month, one staff member will be selected to receive the MSU High Five Award and will be featured on the MSU Staff Senate website. Recipients will receive a variety of goods sponsored by area merchants. Anyone may nominate a staff member for this recognition; however, each recipient may only be recognized once per calendar year. Nominations are due by the last day of each month.
All Minot State benefited staff members are eligible, but those who work on campus but not employed by Minot State (i.e., Sodexo, Barnes & Noble, etc.) are not. Faculty are also not eligible for the High Five Award, but faculty recognitions can be directed to Laurie Geller, Minot State Vice President for Academic Affairs by EMAIL. Revised on 5/18/21 per meeting.
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Congratulations to the January winner of the Staff Senate High Five Award, Darren Olson. Olson, Information Technology Central director, network services / IT security officer started with Minot State in IT in Fall 1999 in his first week as a student at MSU. He worked as an intern/work study until 2003 and then came back to MSU as a systems administrator in 2006. In 2014, he became director of network services, overseeing servers, backend software, network, internet services, and special projects. He and his wife, Megan, have been married for 23 years and have two children, Devon and Breanna, both current MSU students majoring in computers science. They also have an energetic border collie, Lucy, and two spoiled cats, Evie and Lola. Olson is a huge Disney World fan and enjoys traveling, going on cruise ships, carpentry, and home DIY. "Thank you for the nomination," he said, "I very much enjoy helping people and being involved in the many areas of technology." |
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