2005 CATS Distinguished Service Award Winners

Each winner was nominated by the CATS community in during the 2005/2006 academic year. The awardees were selected based on criteria specified in the catagory's rubric. They were honored at the CATS 2006 conference and received a cash award.

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Cyndi Chie San Diego State University	Bill Evans CSU Chico
Cyndi has been greatly involved in increasing awareness regarding Accessibility (and 508 compliance) on our campus, but also throughout the CATS community. She is responsible for starting and chairing the campus committee for Accessibility and is the CATS Communities of Practice leader... Read more...	Bill has served the CATS organization and its members since the day it began and helped plan the first conference. His enthusiasm and creativity played a large part in bringing the CATS community to life, and he's been an active member of CATS ever since... Read more...

2005 CATS Outstanding Professional Award Winners

Each winner was nominated by the CATS community in Spring 2005. The nominees were accepted based on criteria in the Outstanding Professional rubric. These awards are given to those members who have shown exemplary accomplishments in their field.

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Enhancing Instruction	New Campus Library Systems	Enhancing Instruction	University Website /Web-based Services
Doug Borcoman CSU Dominguez Hills	Judy Swanson CSU Channel Islands	Michael Penney Humboldt State University	Paul Nozicka & Harish Chakravarthy San Jose State University
Project name: Extreme Producer	Project name: CSUCU Library Digital Initiatives	Project name: Moodle Development Project	Project name: San Jose State University Website
In his "spare" time he initiated an efficient process for producing online multimedia presentations and helps faculty create pedagogically-sound and visually-stimulating course materials. It's like producing a mini-edTV show in a small file, one that can be burned onto a business card-sized CD or streamed from a server... Read more...	The monumental task of assembling all the necessary components of the Library's digital resources (or Digital Initiatives) were left entirely up to one extremely talented IT professional... Read more...	Since Blackboard representatives did not immediately allay the campus's concerns, Michael began to investigate open source LMS solutions and selected Moodle as being the most viable safety net should Blackboard no longer be available to faculty and students... Read more...	Beginning with the university website designed by Razorfish, Paul and Harish set out to redefine the university's web presence. Their solution was developed on industry standards and built on open-source applications... Read more...