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Worth Sharing: NASPA Hands Out Hardware to Three Chico State Organizations

Sean Murphy
The sun sets over the Chico State campus on a winter afternoon.
Jessica Bartlett / University Photographer

A sunset over campus is seen on Monday, December 18, 2017 in Chico, Calif. (Jessica Bartlett/University Photographer/CSU Chico)

The following is a listing of professional achievements by Chico State faculty, staff, and students. Submit your professional achievements to ucomm@csuchico.edu.

Publications, Presentations and Exhibits

Tobin Roye and David Dvorin (both from the Department of Music and Theatre) joined Ray Barker (after whom the department’s recording studio is named) and former department chairs Alfred Loeffler and David Colson at a Sundays at Two musical performance in Zingg Recital Hall.

Rob Davidson (Department of English) appeared at the Avid Reader in Davis and read from his short novel “What Some Would Call Lies.”

Awards and Activities

The National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA) recognized three University organizations in its annual Excellence Awards:

  • Adventure Outings was named the Gold Winner in the Athletics, Recreation, Physical Fitness, Non-Varsity Sports, and related Excellence category for its Get Outdoors Fund Scholarship Program
  • The Accessibility Resource Center earned a silver award in the International, Multicultural, Gender, LGBTQ , Spirituality, Disability, and related Excellence category for Academic Coaching for Students with Disabilities
  • Community Action Volunteers in Education (CAVE) won a Bronze Award in the Civic Learning, Democratic Engagement, Service-Learning and related Excellence category

University Communications won multiple awards from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) in recognition of its publications, marketing and development programs as examples of best practices. UCOMM earned a:

  • Gold Award in the issues and crisis management category (the department’s response to the student death on campus last March)
Sean Murphy
Sean Murphy

Sean Murphy (English, ’97) is the Media Relations Coordinator at Chico State. When he's not writing press releases and pitching story ideas to the media or fielding media inquiries, he's writing about human interest stories, sports, the outdoors and the remarkable students, staff and faculty at Chico State.