Visit the list of May 2022 OPWL graduates
Each semester OPWL has students graduating that provide above and beyond examples of classroom leadership, community building and collaboration, academic excellence, and professional growth. OPWL recognizes and celebrates these accomplishments and all of our student’s successful completion of their OPWL graduate study.
OPWL Honors Graduate
OPWL Honors Graduate is our highest departmental honor – graduating with OPWL Honors. For this category, students first earned a cumulative GPA of a 4.0, second, they scored very high on their portfolio or thesis review, and their portfolio or thesis was designated by the reviewers as “Outstanding”. This outstanding designation represents particular fluency and eloquence in their knowledge and practice.
- Denise Bushey
- Kymberly Mayfield
- Jill Warwick
Academic Excellence: 4.0 GPA throughout the program
- Tessa Alves Fortes
- Debi Bearden
- Denise Bushey
- Bonnie Carroll
- Kymberly Mayfield
- Beth Szabo
- Jill Warwick
- Lori Wood
OPWL Professional Community Contribution Award
- Kendra Peterson
- Madeleine MacDonald
- Lorraine Frazier-Aich
- Marianne Meindertsma
Community Builder Award
Our Community Builder Award recognizes students that often lifted the learning experiences of their classmates and our classroom activities. They do this consistently and selflessly–and throughout their entire course of study. For this award, the OPWL faculty went through the nomination and finalist selection process.
- Kymberly Mayfield
- Beth Szabo
Professional Growth
This is awarded to a student that entered the OPWL program as a brand new practitioner in the OPWL related fields but they exhibited considerable growth over the duration of their studies and developed themselves professionally.
- Tasha Smagula
About the OPWL Program
The Organizational Performance and Workplace Learning (OPWL) program helps prepare students for careers in the areas of instructional design, training and development, e-learning, workplace performance improvement, organizational development, program evaluation and performance consulting.