Maci Foster of the UGA Center for Continuing Education & Hotel recently was awarded the Public Service and Outreach Employee Spotlight Award.
Foster serves as an operations coordinator in the Continuing Education department at the Georgia Center, where she provides key operational support for the department. Foster’s primary responsibilities include departmental marketing support, administrative oversight, and execution of departmental accounts payables, coordinating test prep and departmental sales activities, and as the primary administrative support for the department. She also handles interdepartmental communications and provides administrative support for continuing education programs and PSO events.
Foster has earned the trust, admiration and respect of her co-workers by delivering work that exceeds expectations. An example of her exemplary efforts was when she resolved a last-minute merchandise issue for the Georgia Center’s Executive Coaching program. A new vendor was used for the polos that commemorate participants’ progress and completion of the program. However, the shirts lacked the necessary quality and Foster quickly set out to find replacements—with just two days to do it. She succeeded in three hours, finding a local vendor to handle the embroidering and another that could supply the polos. Foster even picked up the shirts and delivered them for the embroidering. She then coordinated with the embroiderer to ensure the quality check and the final delivery was on time.
Foster, who joined the Georgia Center in 2017, was nominated by Kiel Norris, associate director of Continuing Education at the Georgia Center, and Kristine Garcia, a former project specialist at the Georgia Center.
“Maci embodies what it means to be a member of PSO,” said Jennifer Frum, vice president for PSO. “She is not in it for the ‘me.’ She is in it for the ‘we.’ She is creative, caring, supportive, and dedicated, and has proven time and again to be an indispensable part of the Continuing Education team and the PSO family.”
Foster received a gift basket of treats and a framed certificate recognizing the award.
Find out more about the PSO Spotlight and how to nominate an employee at https://outreach.uga.edu/awards/pso-employee-spotlight/.