Staff Goes Above and Beyond the Call of Duty
Congratulations to the March 2024 recipient of the Above and Beyond the Call of Duty (ABCD) Award, Mary-Evelyn Sellars. The Awards Committee selected Sellars because she has done a fantastic job bringing events to campus and providing student activities. She has also completely revitalized student clubs, including new budget processes, media training, required student events and overseeing the creation of approximately a dozen new clubs including Dungeons and Dragons, Fiber Arts, Dual Enrollment and Panther Power.
This spring Sellars has continued her great work, and PVCC now has or is developing club sports teams that include soccer, tennis, ultimate frisbee, rowing e-sports and more. Sellars is doing a tremendous job helping bring forward the culture of inclusiveness at PVCC. She has absolutely gone above and beyond in the last months in terms of her efforts to serve where needed and support the greater mission of the college. This is an excellent example of college citizenship and her efforts exemplify the purpose of the ABCD Award.
The ABCD award is for PVCC employees who undertake and complete work that goes beyond his/her normal job responsibilities. The employee must have gone above and beyond the call of duty (outside their standard job functions) one or more times and the action of the employee must have resulted in one or more of the following:
- Helped the college to better achieve some aspect of its mission.
- Helped promote student learning and development.
- Provided a service that would not have occurred or would have taken much longer to occur.
- Helped the college achieve the highest quality possible in some function, activity, or service.
- Performed a service that is exceptional, unusual, and generally not performed by others.