Bega’s University of Wollongong campus is feeling particularly proud this week after being awarded three Vice-Chancellor’s Awards at a recent ceremony.
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Dr Annie Werner, a tutor at UOW Bega, administration officer Brittany Brown, and campus manager Sam Avitaia received awards this year – a trifecta for the Bega team.
Dr Werner was honoured with an award for an outstanding contribution to teaching and learning for her work in the Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts.
Meanwhile, Ms Avitaia and Ms Brown were recipients of outstanding service awards, which are presented each year to Professional Services staff “who have provided outstanding service, achieved an exceptional level of success, and shown recognised initiative in their work”.
In their award citations, Dr Werner was described as a passionate and engaged educator who values a holistic approach to student development and education.
“As a sessional tutor at the UOW Bega Campus, Annie recognises the opportunity to provide a whole student, continuity of care model of education, specifically tailored and appropriate to the regional campus’s high proportion of low SES, mature age and first in family students.
“Through her contiguous and complementary positions as head tutor, bridging and transition lecturer and subject tutor, Annie strives to provide a holistic, pedagogically rigorous approach to her students’ educational wellbeing, which is both inspiring and inclusive.”
Ms Avitaia and Ms Brown were singled out as the champions for UOW in the Bega region “and have consistently gone above and beyond the scope of their positions to ensure the delivery of outstanding service for students, and in driving aspiration toward higher education to disadvantaged students”.
“Their commitment and quality of service was particularly demonstrated through their driving of the Rural Aspirations Project over 2015-2016, which included delivery of innovative pilot outreach programs to Year 12 students, and resulted in the publication of recommendations and resources to facilitate improved outreach to regional students by both UOW and other institutions engaged in regional outreach.”
