Annual Employee Award winners

Recognize a colleague with a Fli-Hi Award

Want to show your appreciation for a fellow employee’s hard work? The Fli-Hi Award is a simple way to give them the recognition they deserve. Just follow these three steps:

  1. Download the Fli- Hi Award (PDF)
  2. Fill in the downloaded form and Save it with a different file name
  3. Upload it to Human Resources secure website
  4. We send a copy to you, the recipient, the recipient's supervisor, and put in the employee’s files

Each month, Fli-Hi Award recipients will also be celebrated in a campus-wide spotlight! Thank you for supporting and encouraging the amazing work happening at Fort Lewis College. Let’s keep building each other up.

Past Fli-Hi Award winners

April

Shoutouts

Anne facilitates free monthly meditation sessions for FLC employees. They are a source of immense support and tranquility for all who attend. Anne's thoughtful approach in creating themes for each practice and introducing various meditation techniques has added a variety of meaningful tools for attendees to try and practice on their own. Thanks for your dedication to the health and well-being of the campus community!

During the most recent IT department network upgrade project, Aury worked tirelessly Friday night, all day Saturday until after 9pm, and continuing on Sunday. Aury was always available for testing service availability, access issues, etc., while the network team implemented the network upgrade. His communication, teamwork, and excellent performance were mentioned by several people who worked on this project. Good job, Aury!

Officer Gordon responded to a call of a student who was having a mental health crisis. He used great compassion, empathy, patience, and understanding with the student to de-escalate the situation and get the student the proper help.

To the Bike Coaches and Carson - Thank you for being great PPS/Grounds Department neighbors. We appreciate the hydration drinks to keep us going. We enjoy your great attitude and teamwork with us.

The network team, specifically Cody Reynolds and Brian Foster, performed a network upgrade over spring break Friday and Saturday, March 22nd and 23rd. The work they did was massive in scope, super important to the stability of the network, and very much needed. Regardless of the setbacks around the firewalls and static routes, the network team exemplified excellent performance, teamwork, and going above and beyond to accomplish the goals defined in the project. Good job, guys!

Thank you, Bryce, for all your time and efforts on Saturday (April 20) to help make the 2024 Hawk Tank a huge success!

Bryce took initiative in DJ-ing our engaging Faculty and Staff Awards event. He managed the PowerPoint presentation and played the chosen walk-on song for each award simultaneously.

Bible is such a humanitarian and doer of good in Athletics! He's crazy fit and athletic, is an exceptional coach and human, and builds everyone up with his 1000-watt smile, encouragement, integrity, and approachability. He makes kindness, collaboration, and asking for help cool. :)

Thank you, Gina, for all your time and efforts to help make the 2024 Hawk Tank a huge success. Your guidance and leadership to ensure that the Hawk Tank Awards Gala went smoothly were fantastic!

Jed deserves the Super Hero Fli Hi Award. Between the delays and complications caused by the DOE with the FAFSA and trying to get Workday tested for implementation, Jed has remained a calming presence and motivator for our team. He has proven to be an adaptable leader with a knack for keeping the team encouraged. There aren't enough positive adjectives that describe Jed as our captain and colleague. We love you, Jeddie!!!

Thank you, Jeff, for all your time and efforts on Saturday (April 20) to help make the 2024 Hawk Tank a huge success! Your guidance and mentoring of the music students (i.e., creating a proposal for services, valuing of time and expertise, etc.) were fantastic!

Jeremiah is constantly working behind the scenes to ensure Foundation funds are managed correctly. His professionalism and dedication to FLC are unwavering in his 20+ years working for the College. We are so grateful to have Jeremiah as a member of the Advancement team.

Thank you, Lainey, for all your time and efforts to help make the 2024 Hawk Tank a huge success! Your assistance with the Hawk Tank Awards Gala's Student Union logistics was fantastic.

Sgt. Matt Dufva worked the campus arson investigation in March 2024, and through his hard work, dedication, and follow-through, he was able to identify a suspect in a very short period of time, which led to an arrest.

On March 30th, the Berndt Hall Datacenter suffered a failure in one of the compressors for the air cooling unit. Since then, Mike has spent many hours working to fix the unit (including over the weekend). Mike and the PPS team devised a secondary means to keep the data center cool while the main unit gets fixed. His relentless effort to fix the issue, combined with outstanding communication, shows excellent teamwork and performance. I applaud Mike and his continual efforts to contribute to the college in ways that probably aren't normally recognized. Thanks, Mike!

My role at FLC relies heavily on IT because I manage the donor database. Monica is always helpful and insightful with troubleshooting and managing systems within the rest of FLC. My most recent error needed FLC & Vendor support, and Monica was helpful as always, providing critical feedback to the vendor, who agreed that Monica's advice was probably right. She saved a lot of time and back and forth. I truly appreciate her, especially with all the additional time she is putting into Workday!

Thank you, Nate, for rearranging your entire class to host Stephen Sullivan's guest talk to our students. Thank you for helping make the 2024 Hawk Tank a success!!

Thank you, Nina, for all your time and efforts to help make the 2024 Hawk Tank a huge success! We appreciate your work with the Event Management students as well as your fantastic support of all of our needs.

Paulinda has the best customer service and a delightful attitude! She has been instrumental in getting posted payroll charges corrected for staff and students for months! Thank you, Paulinda, for your amazing attitude, your willingness to make it an easy process, and helping to clean up the College's budgets!

The PPS Housing Custodial Team has been doing an amazing job this year with keeping the buildings clean and helping the students with the various things that the students inquire about. They have been doing an excellent job, and if you see one of them, tell them thank you, please.

Cpl. Rickey Thomas was on duty when an arson suspect turned himself in. Cpl. Thomas did an outstanding job with the interview, obtaining a full confession.

Rod provides such a great service to the Student Union with all of his hard work, willingness to investigate issues, and providing good knowledge. He was called in twice over a weekend and helped us out when we were in a pinch. We truly appreciate his team-player attitude.

Thank you, Shan, for all your time and efforts on Saturday (April 20) to help make the 2024 Hawk Tank a huge success! Thank you for all your videos and pictures as well as your continued support to help highlight Hawk Tank.

Tyler is a valuable asset to Fort Lewis College. He is always helpful and willing to assist in all facets of the purchasing department and across campus. He is also very adept at using the forklift.