{"id":1390,"date":"2017-03-27T19:22:01","date_gmt":"2017-03-27T19:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/?p=1390"},"modified":"2017-03-27T19:22:01","modified_gmt":"2017-03-27T19:22:01","slug":"employee-spotlight-mary-aguilar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/?p=1390","title":{"rendered":"Employee Spotlight: Mary Aguilar"},"content":{"rendered":"

(HARLINGEN) – Thirteen has proven to be a lucky number for Mary Aguilar. That\u2019s how many years she has served at Texas State Technical College and in the same year has been chosen as the TSTC Employee Spotlight for March.<\/p>\n

The San Benito native is a teaching lab assistant for the Business, Social and Behavioral Sciences department. She said she has had the privilege to work for multiple divisions as a secretary for Education and Training, the Center of Excellence in Teaching and Training and, what was then, the President\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n

Holding back happy tears Aguilar said she is thankful to those who nominated her and have believed in her along the way.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis recognition is an honor. You think no one notices, but they do,\u201d said Aguilar. \u201cI help just to help. I never expect anything in return.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Employee Spotlight was created by TSTC\u2019s Staff Senate to recognize employees, who are nominated by their colleagues, for making a difference in their department and around campus.\"Mary<\/a><\/p>\n

It is Aguilar\u2019s selfless attitude that many say they admire. Those who nominated her remain anonymous, but their comments are printed on Aguilar\u2019s award.<\/p>\n

\u201cMary is always willing and ready to provide help to instructors and students,\u201d one comment read.<\/p>\n

Another remark states, \u201cShe has taken the steps necessary to learn information about Moodle and make the instructors\u2019 jobs easier.\u201d<\/p>\n

And a final comment, \u201cMary is always willing to help with events being held by other departments.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, Aguilar is not only an employee of TSTC, but also an alumnae. She graduated in 2012 with an associate degree in Business Management Technology. She is now in the process of earning her bachelor\u2019s degree in Business Administration from Wayland University at the TSTC University Center.<\/p>\n

\u201cOver the years working with differently people I\u2019ve come to learn the importance of an education,\u201d she said. \u201cEducation has always been important to me, but life happens and I had to wait.\u201d<\/p>\n

The wife, mother of three and grandmother of six said there is no better time than the present to work toward her goal of a bachelor\u2019s degree. Despite the fact that she works full-time and takes online classes she still makes it a point to spend time with her grandchildren.<\/p>\n

\u201cI look forward to going to games and recitals,\u201d said Aguilar. \u201cI take as many pictures as I can because children grow up fast.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the near future, Aguilar hopes to become an instructor at TSTC for the Business Management Technology program to help students achieve their dreams.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe best part of my job is working with students,\u201d she said. \u201cPlus, TSTC is like a second family to me and I want to stick around as long as I can.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(HARLINGEN) – Thirteen has proven to be a lucky number for Mary Aguilar. That\u2019s how many years she has served at Texas State Technical College and in the same year has been chosen as the TSTC Employee Spotlight for March. The San Benito native is a teaching lab assistant for the Business, Social and Behavioral […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-harlingen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1390"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1392,"href":"https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390\/revisions\/1392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}