{"id":10660,"date":"2013-05-02T08:34:14","date_gmt":"2013-05-02T14:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=10660"},"modified":"2013-05-02T20:44:17","modified_gmt":"2013-05-03T02:44:17","slug":"napierkowski-shockley-zalabak-honored-by-faculty-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=10660","title":{"rendered":"Napierkowski, Shockley-Zalabak honored by Faculty Council"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Napierkowski<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

UCCS\u00a0Chancellor Pam Shockley-Zalabak and\u00a0 English Professor Tom Napierkowski were this year\u2019s honorees of the CU Faculty Council, which presented both educators with awards on April 25 at the council\u2019s final meeting of the academic year.<\/p>\n

Shockley-Zalabak, also a professor of communication, received Administrator of the Year. Napierkowski, who teaches in the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences received the Distinguished Service Award. Shockley-Zalabak and Napierkowski earned doctoral degrees at CU-Boulder.<\/p>\n

Shockley-Zalabak was recognized for 37 years of service to UCCS, including the last 12 years as chancellor. The resolution presented by the council noted that she \u201chas championed and modeled shared governance on the University of Colorado Colorado Springs campus and across the University of Colorado system.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI do still consider myself a member of the faculty,\u201d she told the council in receiving the award, noting that she has continued to teach and write during every semester of her chancellorship.<\/p>\n

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Shockley-Zalabak<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Napierkowski was recognized for more than 40 years as a member of the faculty, including 20 years serving on the Faculty Senate Committee on Privilege and Tenure and four terms as president of the UCCS Faculty Senate and Faculty Assembly. He also has spent 15 years working with the UCCS Educational Policy and University Standards (EPUS) Committee, often as chair.<\/p>\n

\u201cI believe with a passion that universities are, or should be, places of reasoned discourse \u2026 governed with reason and civility,\u201d he said in receiving the award. \u201cI try to do that and I know you do, too.\u201d<\/p>\n

The awards were presented by Faculty Council Chair Melinda Piket-May, who was re-elected as chair for the next academic year. Also elected were Laura Borgelt, vice chair, and Christina Martinez, secretary. All three ran unopposed and were voted in by acclamation.<\/p>\n

The council also voted to support the recommendations of its EPUS Committee on four systemwide Administrative Policy Statements currently under review by university leaders. Among them is APS 7008<\/a>, Student Behaviors of Concern, which outlines the university\u2019s requirement for each campus to establish a Behavioral Review and Intervention Team, and provides institutional guidelines for policies to be adopted by each campus.<\/p>\n

The draft of the policy states that \u201cthe university recognizes that early assessment and intervention is critical when students exhibit concerning behaviors that potentially threaten themselves or others or that disrupt the campus community. In addressing such behavior, the university is committed to:<\/p>\n