{"id":2921,"date":"2018-05-09T15:42:23","date_gmt":"2018-05-09T15:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/?p=2921"},"modified":"2018-05-09T15:42:23","modified_gmt":"2018-05-09T15:42:23","slug":"liptak-earns-chancellors-excellence-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/?p=2921","title":{"rendered":"Liptak Earns Chancellor&#8217;s Excellence Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Kevin-Liptak-2sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2922\" src=\"http:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Kevin-Liptak-2sm-300x269.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"269\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Kevin-Liptak-2sm-300x269.jpg 300w, https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Kevin-Liptak-2sm-768x690.jpg 768w, https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Kevin-Liptak-2sm-624x560.jpg 624w, https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Kevin-Liptak-2sm.jpg 835w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>(RED OAK) &#8211; Texas State Technical College employee Kevin Liptak goes the extra mile for his students and his campus. Liptak\u2019s initiative has earned him TSTC\u2019s Chancellor\u2019s Excellence Award, an honor given to TSTC faculty and staff who model excellence at the college.<\/p>\n<p>Liptak, who began working at TSTC in 2015, was excited to be chosen for the award.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLike everybody else, I try to go above and beyond what we\u2019re asked to do,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019ve taken on large class loads and worked on a couple of special projects for TSTC.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Liptak oversees TSTC\u2019s Industrial Maintenance and Electrical Power &amp; Controls programs in North Texas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI like my job,\u201d he said. \u201cThere are a lot of responsibilities, a lot of tasks here. I run two programs, so every day is new.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Liptak takes pride in building relationships with his students.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo far with every student that has graduated, there have been things we\u2019ve helped them out with,\u201d he said. \u201cWhenever Red Oak had tornadoes, there were several students that lost property and we kind of became a support center for them. It\u2019s the right thing to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His favorite part of working at TSTC is the work environment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are a lot of teamwork aspects here that are lacking elsewhere,\u201d he said. \u201cEveryone is here to move forward, and we all work together to get the job done.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Chancellor\u2019s Excellence Award began in 2001, and over the past 15 years nearly 300 TSTC employees have received the honor. Recipients are chosen based on outstanding contributions and achievements, commitment to excellence, and character. Honorees serve as agents of change in the advancement of TSTC initiatives.<\/p>\n<p>Liptak will join 15 other TSTC employees statewide who will be honored later this month at the National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development Awards dinner and celebration in Austin.<\/p>\n<p>TSTC prides itself on being \u201ca great place to work\u201d and is currently hiring for over 100 positions at its 10 campuses statewide. For information on open positions at TSTC, visit tstc.edu\/about\/employment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(RED OAK) &#8211; Texas State Technical College employee Kevin Liptak goes the extra mile for his students and his campus. Liptak\u2019s initiative has earned him TSTC\u2019s Chancellor\u2019s Excellence Award, an honor given to TSTC faculty and staff who model excellence at the college. Liptak, who began working at TSTC in 2015, was excited to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-northtexas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2921","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=2921"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2923,"href":"https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2921\/revisions\/2923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}