Patricia Woods, President's Quality Service Award Winner

Indispensable. Heroic. A woman who brings solutions to the table. These admiring words are used to describe Patricia Woods’ contributions to the

McMicken College of Arts and Sciences

and UC.

A&S has experienced some challenging transitions due to collegiate restructuring that have been made much more manageable and successful with Woods on the job – think million-dollar budget cuts and reorganizations that have migrated much of the university’s evening programs and Summer Session into A&S. “She is remarkably creative and able to translate her ideas into concrete plans,” praises Dean Karen Gould.

Woods has worked to systematize adjunct pay rates across the college and developed a tool for evaluating the cost effectiveness of summer courses.  She initiated, planned and ran a retirement workshop for 30 faculty who were considering a retirement incentive program.

Exclaims psychology department head Kevin Corcoran: “She seems to know everything without being a ‘know-it-all.’ Pat translates arcane spreadsheets into a language that even I can understand. She smiles when asked to do the impossible, and then does it!”

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