The Delta State University Staff Council recently honored Margaret Katembe, acquisitions and accounting coordinator for the university library, as the February 2017 Employee of the Month.<\/p>\n
Katembe, a native of Kenya,\u00a0has been working\u00a0in the library since 2013.<\/p>\n
\u201cThank you for nominating me as Employee of the Month,\u201d said Katembe. \u201cWorking in the library is a team effort environment, and it makes it such a wonderful place to work. It is extra special to be honored and appreciated in such a manner. I know we all work hard in our areas, and I appreciate my colleagues and members of the Staff Council for this nomination.\u201d<\/p>\n
Katembe is\u00a0a two-time graduate of Delta State with a bachelor’s and master’s of business administration.<\/span><\/p>\n Her husband, Dr. William Katembe, is an associate professor of biology at Delta State. The couple has three children who attend the Cleveland School District.<\/p>\n Each Employee of the Month winner receives a plaque, monetary award, 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 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":" The Delta State University Staff Council recently honored Margaret Katembe, acquisitions and accounting coordinator for the university library, as the February 2017 Employee of the Month. Katembe, a native of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":74223,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[296,1210],"tags":[269],"class_list":["post-74222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-facultystaff","category-library-2","tag-employee-of-the-month"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74222","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=74222"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74229,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74222\/revisions\/74229"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}