{"id":21400,"date":"2015-11-18T16:30:15","date_gmt":"2015-11-18T23:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=21400"},"modified":"2015-11-18T14:18:33","modified_gmt":"2015-11-18T21:18:33","slug":"christensen-wins-excellence-in-leadership-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=21400","title":{"rendered":"Christensen wins Excellence in Leadership Award"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Tom Christensen and Chancellor Pam Shockley-Zalabak following a presentation where Christensen received the Excellence in Leadership Award.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Tom Christensen, professor, Physics Department, and co-director of UCCS Teach, received the annual Excellence in Leadership Award Nov. 13 from the CU system-wide Excellence in Leadership Program.<\/p>\n

The award was presented during the annual Excellence in Leadership Luncheon and Lecture, attended by more than 140 program alumni and others at the Brown Palace, Denver.<\/p>\n

ELP provides opportunities for CU faculty and staff to become more effective leaders who can successfully address the challenges of a dynamic university.<\/p>\n

Chancellor Pam Shockley-Zalabak presented the ELP award to professor Christensen, noting that his decade-plus tenure as UCCS\u2019 dean of the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences was marked by adding three new undergraduate degrees programs and a Ph.D. program. He played an integral role in the construction of the Heller Center for the Arts and Humanities, as well as three other large construction projects. He accomplished all of this at a time when tight budgets would have hindered others, she noted.<\/p>\n

\u201cTom looks at how we can come together and solve problems. He never takes credit, even when it is due,\u201d Shockley-Zalabak said. \u201cHe represents the essence of leadership.\u201d<\/p>\n

In accepting the award, Christensen noted his love of the UCCS campus and the many roles he played since arriving in 1989.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can\u2019t even tell you how often I told my wife I\u2019d be home by 6 o\u2019clock, only to come home nowhere close to that time,\u201d he said. \u201cBut tonight, I\u2019ll be home by 6 o\u2019clock.\u201d<\/p>\n

More than 486 CU faculty and staff have completed the program since 2000. The luncheon is an opportunity to bring together program alumni for continuing collaboration and networking.<\/p>\n

\u201cELP is a unique program bringing together faculty and staff, from all campuses, to facilitate leadership and networking opportunities,\u201d said Janet Lowe, director of Employee Services\u2019 Employee Learning and Development division, which administers ELP.<\/p>\n

Kathy Nesbitt, vice president of CU\u2019s Employee and Information Services, introduced the Leadership Lecture speaker Roxane White, who is president and CEO of the Nurse-Family Partnership National Service Office. The two were colleagues when they worked for Gov. John Hickenlooper.<\/p>\n

White\u2019s lecture, \u201cTough Calls: Making Evidence-Based Decisions,\u201d emphasized that many organizations spend too much time focusing on collecting data when real, meaningful insights can come by focusing on outcomes.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need to learn how to collect more data that is focused on the evidence of outcomes, because those will help our organizations know whether our efforts are successful,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

The event was partially sponsored by TIAA-CREF Financial Services.<\/p>\n

— Article and photo By RyAnne Scott, CU Employee Services<\/em><\/p>\n

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