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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 universitys 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.
Pat Woods, right, meets with 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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