June employees of the month
Jama Lickteig University support staff
Jama Lickteig
Current title: Administrative associate senior, department of psychology.
What that means: Lickteig is the office manager, supervising three full-time staff members and student hourly workers. She serves as scheduling officer for a department with more than 30 faculty and some 50 GTAs. Her third major responsibility is enrollment management.
Lickteig also works with the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences to accommodate the needs of as many students as possible, handling permission numbers for closed classes and arranging administrative drops as necessary. She oversees the inventory of office supplies, handles departmental billing for faxing, photocopying and postage, and helps the department's accounting officer with processing deposits and invoices.
Quotable: Lickteig's supervisor, Dennis Karpowitz, associate professor of psychology said, "Jama Lickteig is much more than the sum of her effective work in each of her areas of responsibility. She is 'an institution' in the Department of Psychology. . . . She is down - to - earth, direct, but very pleasant. She can make us all laugh but also hold the line when that is necessary."
Janet Lukehart Unclassified employee
Janet Lukehart
Current title: Assistant to the dean of the School of Business.
What that means: Lukehart's duties include supervision of office staff in the dean's suite, scheduling the dean's activities and calendar and working with School of Business Advisory Board members, faculty and staff to ensure that school events Ñ from advisory board meetings and public lectures to new faculty orientation Ñ run smoothly. The School of Business has several named lecture series and Lukehart helps plan both the public lectures and the associated receptions and dinners.
Notable: Many of the lectures feature well-known figures from the public and private sectors company heads, legislators and Supreme Court justices with very busy schedules. To complicate matters, some donors take a very active interest in "their" lectures. Bill Fuerst, dean of the School of Business, says Lukehart manages all of these interactions superbly, with exceptional tact and diplomacy.
In 2006, she received the school's staff person of the year award, an honor awarded by vote of all staff members in the school. Just two months after joining the school as an administrative assistant, she was promoted.
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