{"id":80676,"date":"2018-06-28T08:34:55","date_gmt":"2018-06-28T13:34:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/?p=80676"},"modified":"2018-06-28T08:34:55","modified_gmt":"2018-06-28T13:34:55","slug":"clemons-named-employee-of-the-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2018\/06\/clemons-named-employee-of-the-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Clemons named Employee of the Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Delta State University Staff Council recently honored Craig Clemons, manager of custodial and support services, as the June 2018 Employee of the Month.<\/p>\n<p>Clemons has worked in custodial services at Delta State since 1997. He said he remains motivated to lead his staff after being tasked with managing a crew shortly after being hired by President Emeritus Dr. Kent Wyatt.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt warms the heart to receive this recognition,&#8221; said Clemons. &#8220;In 21 years, there have been some times where I felt beat down, but it picks me up to know that the hard work doesn&#8217;t go unrecognized.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Clemons is a native of Duncan, Mississippi.<\/p>\n<p>Made up of volunteers from the Staff Council, the Incentives &amp; Recognition committee meets monthly to review nominations for the Employee of the Month award. The committee has been celebrating staff performance in this manner for over 15 years.<\/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 Craig Clemons, manager of custodial and support services, as the June 2018 Employee of the Month. Clemons has worked in custodial services&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":80677,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[296],"tags":[269,259],"class_list":["post-80676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-facultystaff","tag-employee-of-the-month","tag-facilities-management"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80676","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=80676"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80679,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80676\/revisions\/80679"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}