{"id":70673,"date":"2016-07-05T08:45:02","date_gmt":"2016-07-05T13:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/?p=70673"},"modified":"2016-07-05T08:45:02","modified_gmt":"2016-07-05T13:45:02","slug":"smith-named-employee-of-the-month-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2016\/07\/smith-named-employee-of-the-month-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Smith named Employee of the Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"entry-header\">\n<p class=\"entry-title\">The Delta State University Staff Council recently honored Tarnisha Smith, coordinator of university facility reservations and calendar,\u00a0as the June 2016 Employee of the Month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"entry-title\">Smith, a native of Drew, has been working in the Office of Student Life since 2013.<\/p>\n<p class=\"entry-title\">\u201c<span class=\"s1\">I was completely shocked when I received the award,&#8221; said Smith. &#8220;I really feel like Delta State is home, so this was just icing on the cake for me.&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"s1\">Outside of work, Smith enjoys spending time with her children and family.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/header>\n<p>Each Employee of the Month winner receives a plaque, monetary award, WalMart gift card from the Student Government Association, an engraved insulated coffee mug, a free parking decal courtesy of the Campus Police Department, a box of treats from The Sweetery, a parking spot of their choice, marquee announcement and website recognition.<\/p>\n<p>For an archived list of previous winners, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/about-dsu\/administration\/staff-council\/staff-council-employee-of-the-month\/employee-of-the-month-archives\/\">https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/about-dsu\/administration\/staff-council\/staff-council-employee-of-the-month\/employee-of-the-month-archives\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Delta State\u2019s Staff Council serves as a liaison between the administration and the staff to provide a formal process for staff to discuss issues involving university policies and procedures and to forward ideas, recommendations and opinions to the president.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Delta State University Staff Council recently honored Tarnisha Smith, coordinator of university facility reservations and calendar,\u00a0as the June 2016 Employee of the Month. Smith, a native of Drew, has&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":70675,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[296],"tags":[269,360,611],"class_list":["post-70673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-facultystaff","tag-employee-of-the-month","tag-staff","tag-student-life"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70673"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70674,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70673\/revisions\/70674"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}