Two Glendale Community College faculty members received the annual NISOD (National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development) Excellence Awards.

The honorees are Tenisha Baca, communications faculty, and Gina Weatherly, child and family studies faculty.

NISOD’s Excellence Awards recognize individuals each year who have demonstrated an outstanding commitment and contribution to their students and colleagues. In 1989, in connection with a University of Texas at Austin national study of teaching excellence, NISOD hosted its inaugural ceremony honoring recipients.

NISOD then began what has become the largest gathering that recognizes the contributions and achievements of community and technical college faculty, administrators and staff.

Excellence Award recipients are recognized during NISOD’s annual International Conference on Teaching and Leadership Excellence, May 27-30.

The names, titles, and colleges of all Excellence Award recipients are included in a special booklet that features congratulatory ads from many of the recipients ’colleges. In addition, presentations at the conference involving Excellence Award recipients are indicated in the Conference Program with a special icon.

Glendale Community College has two campuses and enrolls approximately 26,000 students annually, and employs approximately 1,000 resident faculty, staff and administrators with an operational budget of $83 million.