{"id":220475,"date":"2024-10-25T17:00:07","date_gmt":"2024-10-25T21:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=220475"},"modified":"2025-09-09T11:18:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T15:18:03","slug":"two-from-facilities-operations-earn-prestigious-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2024\/10\/two-from-facilities-operations-earn-prestigious-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Two from Facilities Operations Earn Prestigious Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>APPA (formerly the Association of Physical Plant Administrators) recently awarded two members of UConn\u2019s Facilities Operations staff with a special award. Associate Directors Mickey Gorman and Ryan Steinberg earned the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.appa.org\/membership\/member-awards-and-recognition\/effective-and-innovative-practices\/\">\u201cEffective and Innovative Practices Award\u201d<\/a> for their presentation entitled \u201cBuilding Your Workforce from Within: Future Workforce for UConn Facilities Operations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This award recognizes programs and processes that enhance service delivery, lower costs, increase productivity, improve customer service, generate revenue, or otherwise benefit the educational institution.<\/p>\n<p>The presentation was designed for trainees in Facilities Operations at UConn and for members of the Skilled Trades Apprentice program.<\/p>\n<p>The award was presented by Lalit Agarwal, President and CEO of APPA, at the Annual Eastern Region of APPA Conference last month in King of Prussia, Pa.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Award recognizes programs and processes that enhance service delivery, lower costs, increase productivity, improve customer service, generate revenue, or otherwise benefit the educational institution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123,"featured_media":220477,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[2113],"class_list":["post-220475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-15 22:02:05","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/123"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220475"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":220478,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220475\/revisions\/220478"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/220477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220475"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=220475"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=220475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}