Celebrating supervisor excellence

The Student Employment Supervisor of the Year Award honors those who support student employees.

View selection criteria See past recipients

Celebrate student employees

Nominate and recognize outstanding student employees.

Nominees must be full-time or part-time staff or faculty employees of the university.

View a sample nomination letter

We coordinate IU Indianapolis awards with the National Student Employment Association (NSEA) and Midwest Association of Student Employment Administrators (MASEA), enabling our winners to advance to regional and national recognition programs.

Nominees are evaluated on the mentoring, professionalism, and leadership provided to the student employee(s).

As described in the nomination letter, additional considerations include:

The nominee’s greatest supervising attributes
How the nominee has gone above and beyond the standard work expectations as a supervisor
The quality of the nominee’s work and work style
The nominee’s leadership skills, initiative, and motivation
The impact the nominee has had on student employees
The qualities that set the nominee apart from other supervisors

Past Student Employment Supervisor of the Year honorees
Year	Name	Position	Office
2025	Susan Walsh	Associate Professor	School of Science
2024	Denise Rayman	Digital Archivist	University Library
2023	Babak Anasori	Assistant Professor	Mechanical and Energy Engineering
2022	Cristina Padilla	Sustainability Engagement Coordinator	Office of Sustainability
2021	Lauren DeHaan Also won MASEA regional Student Employee Supervisor of the Year	Assistant Director	Office of Student Employment
2020	Gilbert Flores Brett Hietala	International Recruitment and Outreach Manager Residence Coordinator	Office of International Affairs Housing and Residence Life
2019	Sarah Eltzroth	Assistant Director of Training and Development	University College Academic and Career Development
2018	Terry O’Brien		School of Public and Environmental Affairs
2017	Imranul Alam	Assistant Research Professor	IU School of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology
2016	Michael Finnell	Contact Center Supervisor	Office of Student Financial Services
2015	Erika Huber	Assistant Director of Academic Mentoring	Bepko Learning Center
2014	Amy Wylie		Division of Student Life
2013	Lyne Racette		IU School of Medicine, Department of Ophthalmology
2012	Brenda Grimes		Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics
2011	Sloane Thompson	Director of Career Development	School of Liberal Arts
2007	Joe Huerkamp		Department of Mechanical Engineering

Nominations for the awards are currently closed.

IU Indianapolis

Office of Student Employment

University Tower, Suite 202
911 W North St
Indianapolis, IN 46202
USA