AAWCC-Oregon Annual Awards
Carolyn DesJardins Leadership Award
This award is given to someone who has demonstrated outstanding leadership and made a significant contribution to community colleges. The recipient does not have to be an AAWCC member. Criteria for receiving the award will include demonstrated ability to inspire, champion, or celebrate women as leaders. Nomination Form
Read more about Dr. Caroloyn DesJasrdins' career and the impact she had on others' lives.
Dr. Carolyn DesJardins' career included twenty-six years in the Maricopa Community College District. She was the recipient of numerous awards and honors. Her greatest award, however, was knowing that over 3000 women and many men saw their lives enriched, enabled, and changed forever through the programs, scholarships, articles, and presentations she sponsored or made, as well as through her powerful hugs, deep caring, and strong advocacy for all of us to be the very best we could be.Dr. Constance M. Carroll, NILD Newsletter, Fall 1997
2009 Carolyn DesJardins Leadership Award Winner: Jan Woodcock
The nominators describe this woman as “very smart, compassionate, funny, competent and a charismatic woman”, “She has been instrumental in and essential to the growth and leadership of the Oregon chapter for a number of years”, “If stock in this woman became available, I would be first in the purchase line.” “Her legacy of nurturing women’s leadership makes a difference in Oregon’s community colleges.”
Read the full content of what the nominators said about Jan and why she is so deserving of this award.
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Previous Recipients
Community College Excellence Award
The AAWCC Board of Directors celebrates individuals, chosen by local AAWCC membership, whose accomplishments made a difference for women at his or her own community college.
The Board awards a certificate to honor each Community College Excellence Award recipient each fall at the state AAWCC conference in November. The recipient need not be a member of AAWCC to receive the award. There is no official nomination form.
2009 AAWCC Excellence Award Winners
- Theresa Bosworth - Blue Mt.
- Rita Blaisdell - Chemeketa
- Joanne Truesdell - Clackamas
- Susan Wolff - Columbia Gorge
- Ginger Peterson - Linn Benton
- Karen Reynolds - Mt. Hood
- Karen Sorensen - Portland
- Sharon Smith - Rogue
- Dora Daniels - Southwestern Oregon
- Dr. Lori Gates - Tillamook Bay
- Nancy Nowak - Umpqua
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Previous Recipients
2008
- Valerie Ziegler - Linn-Benton
- Donna Zmolek - Lane
- Kimberly Hutchinson - Mt. Hood
- Pam Shields - Mt. Hood
- Cherie Maas-Anderson - Portland
- Denise Caldwell - Rogue
- Dr. Jim Sorensen - Treasure Valley
2007
- Jill Ward - Chemeketa
- Karen Carter - Columbia Gorge
- Phoebe Anderson - Lane
- Joanne Apter - Linn-Benton
- Linda Neumann - Mount Hood
- Linda Gerber - Portland
- Michelle Bergman - Umpqua