{"id":43958,"date":"2024-05-10T18:49:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-10T22:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/?p=43958"},"modified":"2024-05-07T08:58:47","modified_gmt":"2024-05-07T12:58:47","slug":"nscc-recognizes-award-of-merit-distinguished-faculty-members-at-luncheon-ceremony-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/nscc-recognizes-award-of-merit-distinguished-faculty-members-at-luncheon-ceremony-2\/","title":{"rendered":"NSCC RECOGNIZES AWARD OF MERIT & DISTINGUISHED FACULTY MEMBERS AT LUNCHEON CEREMONY"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Award of Merit in the Nursing & Allied Health division went to (l-r) Allison Boles and Kali Heffelfinger. (Not pictured: Sarah Breece and Bethany Klopfenstein)<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Archbold, Ohio \u2013 Northwest State Community College recently recognized seventeen Award of Merit recipients.  For over 25 years, Northwest State has recognized graduates within the degree programs for their academic achievements.  Award of Merit recipients are chosen by faculty from the respective divisions based on leadership involvement, special talents or abilities in their academic field, and significant contributions to Northwest State.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Following an open by Dr. Lana Snider, NSCC Vice President for Academics, and a welcome by NSCC Executive Vice President Dr. Albert Lewis, Jr., the recipients were brought to the stage for recognition of their achievements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition to recognizing the Award of Merit student recipients, the College also nominated eight faculty for Distinguished Faculty status during the ceremony. The award recognizes exemplified excellence in teaching. The list of honorees is as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Award of Merit recipients:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Arts & Sciences division \u2013 Kyla Bressler (Napoleon), Jayne Durham (Malinta), Jake Stephens (Defiance), Grace Torres (Defiance)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Business & Public Services division \u2013 Greg Dobson (Defiance), Rheya Drown (Defiance), Megan Hannigan (Risingsun), Luke Leatherman (Liberty Center), Brianne Young (Montpelier)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nursing & Allied Health division \u2013 Allison Boles (Napoleon), Sarah Breece (Hamler), Kali Heffelfinger (Hicksville), Bethany Klopfenstein (Paulding)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

STEM & Industrial Technologies division \u2013 Bradon Beck (Archbold), Chris Dukeshire (Delta), Garrett Sidle (Holgate), Ash Walz (Montpelier)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Distinguished Faculty nominees:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Arts & Sciences division \u2013 Thelma Esterline*, Amy Drees<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Business & Public Services division \u2013 Anthony Menna*, Heather Galbraith<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nursing & Allied Health division \u2013 Heather Fisher*, Linette Will<\/p>\n\n\n\n

STEM & Industrial Technologies division \u2013 Dianne Mott*, Josh Verhoff<\/p>\n\n\n\n

* denotes part-time faculty member<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Linette Will was named the full-time Distinguished Faculty Award recipient, and Anthony Menna received the part-time Distinguished Faculty Award. The College congratulates the students and faculty recognized in the ceremony.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Archbold, Ohio \u2013 Northwest State Community College recently recognized seventeen Award of Merit recipients.  For over 25 years, Northwest State<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":43959,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[19998,9301,22172,22171,1386,22155],"class_list":["post-43958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-school","tag-allison-boles","tag-award-of-merit","tag-bethany-klopfenstein","tag-kali-heffelfinger","tag-nscc","tag-sarah-breece"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/NSCC-Bole-Heffelfinger.jpeg?fit=666%2C490&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2YQd9-br0","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-25 15:34:13","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43958"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43960,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43958\/revisions\/43960"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}