Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi announced the expansion of her STAR Award Program, which recognizes staff members who go “above and beyond” in support of the campus’s core values, and called for nominations for the 2015 awards.

The $1,500 STAR awards — STAR stands for Staff Appreciation and Recognition — are now offered to the following groiups:

• Policy-covered MSP/PSS student employees or staff (nonrepresented), Davis campus or UC Davis Health System.
• Clerical (CX) staff (career and nonprobationary), Davis or UC Davis Health System.

When the program began two years ago, it did not include the health system or CX staff.

“We have so many people all across the university who contribute to our excellence,” the chancellor said. “We are honoring them and thanking them for making us a world-class university.”

Nominations are welcome from anyone in the campus community; the submission deadline is 5 p.m. Friday, Nov. 30. More information, including the link for the nomination form.

A selection committee will review the nominations and provide recommendations to the chancellor, who will announce the awards in January.

Each nomination must focus on the nominee’s “exceptional contributions” in support of the UC Davis mission, how he or she has set a standard of exemplary achievement, and how the nominee exhibits one or more of the campus’s core values:

• Foster a bold and innovative spirit in our teaching, research and public service.
• Inspire and support excellence and success in the engagement of our students, faculty, staff and alumni to learn, experiment and achieve to their full individual and collective potential.
• Maintain the highest degree of ethical and moral conduct.
• Be courteous in responding to requests for service and strive to exceed expectations.
• Take pride in your work, the campus and the campus community.
• Affirm our abiding commitment to respect and diversity.
• Partner in economic development with those individuals, foundations, government entities, businesses and philanthropic organizations that are actively engaged in improving the economy of the region, state and nation, and the quality of life for all.
• Promote a community characterized by respect, integrity, openness and responsiveness, and by consultation and collaboration, in which we are invested in our collective welfare and the responsible, sustainable stew­ardship of our resources.

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