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Howland has been in leadership roles since her days at Dana,
when she served as president of the Student Senate and a resident
assistant. She also worked for three years for the business
faculty.
“
They made each student they interacted with feel as if they
were their most important priority,” Howland said. “Their
compassion to teach people has rubbed off on me.”
Now
Howland is the teacher. In her time at the FDIC she has trained
and mentored green examiners and even participated
in the development of examination systems that will be used
by regulatory agencies across the country.
She has been awarded
the agency’s Sustained Superior
Performance Award for her work as an examiner in charge
of a billion-dollar financial institution. For this project
she supervised more than 50 examiners from two regulatory
agencies.
In the same year, she was given the Special Act Award for
her
dedication and commitment to a project analyzing the credit
quality at financial institutions.
Her dedication reaches
beyond the workplace. Collecting clothing and toiletries
for battered women, riding 25 miles
in a bike
race for multiple sclerosis and volunteering for the Avon
3-Day Breast Cancer Walk are some of her service activities.
“
I have had many opportunities to teach and mentor others — new
examiners — learning the role of supervising institutions
to teaching examiners how to use new software packages,” Howland
said. “A teacher’s role is to develop a person
to the best of his or her abilities. I enjoy observing this
transformation of knowledge. I learned the value of this transformation
from the business faculty at Dana. They showed a willingness
to develop a person to their fullest potential.”
Dana College is a private, liberal arts institution that currently
enrolls approximately 600 students. The campus is located on
150 acres overlooking the Missouri River Valley in Blair, Neb.
Dana grants bachelor’s degrees in more than 20 liberal
arts, business, education and pre-professional programs. Dana
is affiliated with the Nebraska Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran
Church in America, and its athletic teams compete in the Great
Plains Athletic Conference.
More information on Dana College can be found on its web site, www.dana.edu.
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For more information contact:
Sarah Cavanah
Communications Coordinator
Dana College
(402) 426-7216
scavanah@dana.edu |
