{"id":147749,"date":"2025-03-18T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=147749"},"modified":"2025-03-17T21:27:47","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T02:27:47","slug":"recognize-exceptional-student-service-with-a-frist-nomination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/recognize-exceptional-student-service-with-a-frist-nomination\/","title":{"rendered":"Recognize Exceptional Student Service With a Frist Nomination"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em>Submissions for coveted award are due by April 1, 2025<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The selection committee for the <strong>Thomas Frist Student Service Award<\/strong> is accepting nominations for <strong>University of Mississippi <\/strong>faculty and staff members who go &#8220;the extra mile&#8221; to provide exceptional assistance to students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Ole Miss<\/strong> students, alumni, friends, faculty and staff can nominate candidates for the annual awards online through April 1, 2025. To access the nomination form,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/tracking.us.nylas.com\/l\/7b3e968b795e49e58ad40130821075bc\/1\/15de11fe18acb2413e1537052d943ddad6d3be86ca8b4df04026531e2ef8554a?cache_buster=1742248918\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Any full-time faculty or staff member, except previous winners, is eligible for the award, which includes a $1,000 prize and a plaque. Past nominations also may be considered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a tremendous honor to have been awarded the Frist Award and to know that there were students for whom my service made a difference,&#8221; said <strong>Tracy Case Koslowski<\/strong>, associate director of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/tracking.us.nylas.com\/l\/7b3e968b795e49e58ad40130821075bc\/2\/61388ea2d9717edceb8cfd8d172dac7efd78b7420e66f50b3d12ad834bb99e7b?cache_buster=1742248918\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Intensive English Program<\/a>\u00a0and the staff winner of the 2024 Frist Award. &#8220;Honestly, my nomination was a direct result of principles taught to me by my community: being kind, courteous, considerate and helpful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;It is incredibly impactful for students and others to nominate people for service rewards because it validates and strengthens those values we cherish.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The nomination should differentiate between obligation and service by citing specific examples in which the person being nominated has gone beyond the call of duty to help a student or students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nominations should not focus on classroom teaching or tutoring efforts. The Elsie M. Hood Outstanding Teacher Award, which has a separate nomination process, recognizes excellence in that area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The recipients will be honored May 10 at the university&#8217;s Commencement convocation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A list of previous Frist Award winners is available&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/tracking.us.nylas.com\/l\/7b3e968b795e49e58ad40130821075bc\/3\/9d0309de70af3ffccb3e7f35d1ce1cf70c440229f54baa4dfc772bd763b0eab3?cache_buster=1742248918\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Frist Student Service Awards were established with a $50,000 gift from the late <strong>Dr. Thomas F. Frist<\/strong>, of <strong>Nashville<\/strong>, a 1930 UM graduate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"25\" height=\"16\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg?resize=25%2C16\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14544\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Tracy-Koslowski-scaled.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Tracy-Koslowski-1024x682.jpg?resize=640%2C426&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-147750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Tracy-Koslowski-scaled.jpg?resize=1024%2C682&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Tracy-Koslowski-scaled.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Tracy-Koslowski-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C511&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Tracy-Koslowski-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C1022&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Tracy-Koslowski-scaled.jpg?resize=2048%2C1363&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Tracy-Koslowski-scaled.jpg?w=1280 1280w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Tracy-Koslowski-scaled.jpg?w=1920 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Tracy Case Koslowski, associate director of the Intensive English Program at the University of Mississippi, has been named the 2024 staff winner of the Frist Student Service Award. Photo by Thomas Graning\/Ole Miss Digital Imaging Services<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Submissions for coveted award are due by April 1, 2025 The selection committee for the Thomas Frist Student<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123462,"featured_media":147750,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17687],"tags":[5,1988,7067,4,20978,28615,655],"class_list":["post-147749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-university-of-mississippi","tag-mississippi","tag-nashville","tag-ole-miss","tag-oxford","tag-thomas-frist-student-service-award","tag-tracy-case-koslowski","tag-university-of-mississippi"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Tracy-Koslowski-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1704&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/123462"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147749"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":147751,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147749\/revisions\/147751"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}