{"id":127280,"date":"2020-09-25T06:58:48","date_gmt":"2020-09-25T12:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=127280"},"modified":"2021-07-27T11:28:20","modified_gmt":"2021-07-27T17:28:20","slug":"employee-of-the-quarter-winner-corrie-west-its-been-more-than-just-a-wonderful-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=127280","title":{"rendered":"Employee of the Quarter winner Corrie West: “It\u2019s been more than just a wonderful job”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Summer 2020 Employee of the Quarter winner and director of Development Corrie West takes a selfie with Clyde the Mountain Lion.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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If you had told Corrie West that a single Sunday edition of\nthe Denver Post would change her life, she probably wouldn\u2019t have believed you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

West, director of Development and the recipient of the summer 2020 Employee of the Quarter award, always wanted to move to Colorado. Twenty years after visiting the state as a child, she ordered a copy of the Denver Post to her home in Wisconsin, faxed in a job application and heard back from the company six hours later. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since moving to Colorado, she hasn\u2019t looked back \u2013 and has blended her love of sports, healthcare and student affairs into a career helping students achieve their dreams of earning a college degree.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

West joined UCCS in 2015, where she turned her development\nand fundraising focus on the Helen and Arthur E. Johnson Beth-El College of\nNursing and Health Sciences. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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West pictured on the childhood vacation that inspired her to move from Wisconsin to Colorado 20 years later.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Since then, she has taken the lead on fundraising efforts for the new $64 million William J. Hybl Sports Medicine and Performance Center, which opened August 2020. She helped to secure a seven-figure investment from the Colorado Springs Health Foundation, a gift that will bring National Institute of Human Resilience\u2019s trauma-informed care services into community emergency departments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She helped to identify a shortage of nursing professionals\nin southern Colorado, then built partnerships with Colorado Springs healthcare organizations\nand hospitals to help create annual scholarships for nursing students,\nplacement for work-study options within hospitals and pipelines to full-time\npositions after graduation. West has also served a full term as Staff\nAssociation President, where she helped spearhead the creation of the Clyde\u2019s\nKudos staff appreciation program. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And she has done this work, her nominators for the Employee of the Quarter award write, with \u201ca level of joy that inspires all of us to do our best work\u201d \u2013 celebrating each accomplishment with a signature \u201cWoohoo!\u201d cheer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For West, her work \u2013 in fundraising, scholarships and health\npromotion \u2013 is all about creating good for the future. Whether she is leading\ntours of the Hybl Center, building philanthropic relationships with community\npartners or helping to establish new scholarships, like the COSI Nursing\nWorkforce Scholarship Fund, West does her work because it makes a positive\nimpact in peoples\u2019 lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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West gives a signature “Woohoo!” cheer.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhile I was transitioning away from the job I held before coming\nto UCCS, I wanted it to be a conscious decision,\u201d West said. \u201cI asked myself, \u2018Where\nbest should I be? What am I good at?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe timing was right,\u201d she continued. \u201cComing to UCCS it\nwas like the universe was saying, \u2018This is where you should be.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As she looks to the future at UCCS, West is excited \u2013\nwhether it is for new research on resilience and complementary wellness\ntherapies conducted by the National Institute for Human Resilience, or the experiential\nlearning opportunities available to students in the Hybl Center\u2019s cadaver labs,\nenvironmental chambers, nutrition laboratories and sports medicine clinics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 \u201cWe have so much potential\nthat hasn\u2019t been realized, or the surface even scratched,\u201d West said. \u201cAt UCCS\n\u2013 I believe this wholeheartedly \u2013 we\u2019re given the opportunity to give things a\ntry. I feel very fortunate to have been given opportunities that, at a larger\ninstitution, I never would have had.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMy heart connection to UCCS goes beyond what our students do,\u201d West continued. \u201cIt\u2019s also about what it\u2019s done for me. It\u2019s allowed me to maneuver through life\u2019s challenges and gain confidence in spaces that I never imagined I would be in. It\u2019s been more than just a wonderful job. I say it a lot: I got lucky.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In recognition of her efforts for UCCS, West will receive one day of administrative leave, a $100 stipend, three months of a free and reserved parking space when normal campus operations have resumed and a $40 voucher to the UCCS Bookstore. Congratulations, Corrie!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Do you have a colleague whose extraordinary efforts at UCCS deserve to be recognized? <\/strong>Nominate them<\/strong><\/a> for the Employee of the Quarter award.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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