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Mary H. Cumpston Award for Service to Students Beclzi Ingersoll, M.S. '97 BECKI INGERSOLL, a Portland State University alumna, joined PSU in 1995 and l-ras served as associate director oFAdvising and Career Services since 2010. For the past decade, she has worked to advance student success initiatives, first in the Financial Aid Oltrce, then in Admissions, and in the Undergraduate Advising & Support Center, and now in Advising and Career Services. Ms. Ingersoll always puts students first and has their best interests in mind. Ms. Ingersolls recent student iniriar ives inc]udc imporranr pro.jecrs ruch as rhe Coordinated Service Network, Four Year Degree Guarantee, Excessive Credit Project, the Last Mile Committee. and involvement with five different TeTHINK initiatives in the past three years. Ms. Ingersoll has served as the floor manager for the Portland State University Spring Commencement Ceremor-ry for the past nine straight years, impacting the final moments and experiences of approximately 1 8,000 students. Ms. Ingersoll has served for l0 years on the Academic Requirements Committee and remains one of the morr rready and devored parricipanLs reviewing student petitions. Ms. Ingersoll has also selved on the Deadline Appeals Committee for the parr lour yelrr. The commirree reviews I .-00 petitions each year. mcaning Ingersoll has hal a hand in approving up to 6,800 Deadline Appeals Petitions. Ms. Ingersoll's direcr scrvicc ro students, her leadership in advising, and her engagement with student success initiatives clearly demonsrrates a commitment to serving students and improving the systems that support them. Ms. L-rgersoll reprcsents the outstanding service to students that the Cumpston Award strives to honor. The Mary H. Curnpston Award for Service to Students is given ar-rnually to an academic prolcssional or unir crsiry administrator, without academic rank, who has demonstrated excellence in the area of service ro str-rdents. Mary H. Cumpston was a beloved colleaguc who truly ernbodied the meaning of excellence in scrvice to students to the Portland State Ur-riversiry.

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