Above & Beyond Award Winner - Joyce Thant

 

We're very happy to announce Joyce Thant as a winner of the Business/SPEA Library Above & Beyond Award for the Spring 2025 semester. As a winner, Joyce is the recipient of a Target gift card.

Joyce was nominated by Matt McGee.

Here's what Matt had to say about Joyce, "If you talk to Joyce for any length of time, you are likely to hear two things from her: 

I’m so busy!

I feel like I’m not doing enough!

The first statement is objectively true. I have lost count of the number of jobs Joyce has and all the committees and organizations she belongs to, along with a full load of classes. Which makes the second statement objectively silly – but also a reflection of Joyce’s work ethic. Which we have benefitted from greatly here at Business/SPEA. She has been a clutch player on many occasions, volunteering to work times that no one else could over breaks and extended hours. She has been a godsend as a Senior PSA, happily filling in the gaps in the schedule that no one else was able to. When working during extended hours last semester and dealing with the weird problems that Workflows always has when our hours change, Joyce put together a very neat and very detailed summary of all the check-outs that evening, all in an effort to make it easier for us to sort out the chaos later.

Which was very true to form for her. She has always approached everything she does for us with the attitude of, “What can I do? How can I help?” For always going above and beyond, thank you, Joyce!" 

Congratulations to Joyce!

Thank you for going Above and Beyond!