DSA Team, we want to celebrate your success!
Awards, Fellowships and Scholarships
Caitlin Reichert
Center for Global Engagement, Global Exchanges
October 2024: awarded a Conference Travel Grant from NAFSA: Association of International Educators to attend the 2024 Region VII Conference in Jacksonville, Florida this November.
Robert Billings, MPA
Counseling & Psychological Services
September 2024: was awarded the Arising Scholar Graduate Student Award and Scholarship which honors Black/African American students who are on their journey to earn a doctoral degree (PhD, PsyD) in psychology.
Liz Iaconis
Center for Leadership and Service
July 2024: coordinated by Liz Iaconis, FSU Votes was recognized by ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge as one of 3 ACC institutions to date to have submitted a highly established campus voter engagement plan for the 2024-2026 action planning cycle. With this achievement from ALL IN, FSU Votes was jointly recognized by Campus Vote Project and NASPA for the second consecutive cycle as a Voter Friendly Campus.
Division of Student Affairs Marketing and Communications Office
DSA Marketing and Communications Office
July 2024: earned an international Circle of Excellence Award from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) for the "Hello FSU!" campaign. This FSU student success communications campaign won the CASE Student Engagement Grand Gold Circle of Excellence Award—the recognition awarded to the highest scoring entry in the category. Congratulations DSA MarComm team members Alice Maxwell, Alycia Malicz, Emma Massaglia, Cassidy Shaw, Chlo Keicher, Suzan Kurdak, Jessie Colegrove, Evan Eisenstark, Ilaria Georgi and Amanda Fronczak!
Shannon Staten, Ph.D.
July 2024: was one of six recipients awarded the Parthenon Society award from the Association of College and University Housing - International Foundation (ACUHO-I).
Presentations, Conferences and Exhibits
Annette Peters, Ph.D., CGP
Counseling & Psychological Services
September 2024: presented “UCC Innovative Strategies to Attract and Retain Staff” at the 2024 Association of Counseling Center Training Agencies Conference in Philadelphia.
Christy L. Mantzanas
August 2024: presented "Navigating Career Advancement: Evaluate and Strategize to Achieve" for members of the Big Bend Society of Human Resource Management.
DeOnte Brown
Center for Academic Retention and Enhancement
July 2024: co-presented “Students Experiencing Homelessness: Your Role in Building Equitable Campus Support” and served as a panelist for “Managing Up: Lessons Learned by First Scholars Network Institutions” at the NASPA Conferences on Student Success in Higher Education in Anaheim, CA.
Shannon Staten, Ph.D.
July 2024: presented two sessions at the 2024 Association of College and University Housing Officers – International Conference: "Making 20 new contacts in an hour: Connecting with Women Leaders" and "My Doctoral Journey Started at 50."
Service
Dr. Brittany Devies
August 2024: named the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Campus Activities Practice and Scholarship.
Zduy Chu, Ed.D.
Office of the Vice President For Student Affairs
July 2024: selected as chair of the 2025 NASPA AVP Symposium Committee.
Publications
Freddy Juarez
September 2024: published with FSU doctoral student, Johnnie Allen Jr., a new article, (Re)designing Leadership Engagement to Center Learners in New Directions for Student Leadership.
Brittany Devies, Ph.D.
August 2024: published articles, “First Come, First Observed: Utilizing Observation as a Pedagogical Tool to Transform Leadership Learning” with Grant Mitchell and Katherine Gibson (FSU alumni); “Intentional, inclusive, and interconnected: Looking forward with the leadership learning framework” with Ana Maia, Ph.D.; “Engaging, Observing, and Reflecting: Utilizing the Leadership Learning Framework as an Instructional Tool” with Kathy Guthrie Ph.D.; and published an article “Engaging, observing, and reflecting: Utilizing the leadership learning framework as an instructional tool” in New Directions for Student Leadership, Volume 2024. She also co-authored a book, Foundations of Leadership: Principles, Practice, and Progress.
Amy Hecht
Vice President for Student Affairs
August 2024: co-edited "The Next Act: Realigning Your Mindset, Purpose, and Career." The book is available here for presale.
Erin Morpeth-Provost, Ph.D.
Counseling and Psychological Services
July 2024: published "Demographic, Academic, and Clinical Characteristics of College Students Hospitalized for Psychiatric Crises" in the APA Journal of Counseling Psychology.
