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The CU-Lock Haven APSCUF Chapter recently recognized faculty with awards. The first award celebrated the efforts of the CU-Lock Haven nursing faculty with the union’s annual Spotlight Award. The award goes to departments, programs, and majors on the Lock Haven and Clearfield campuses that provide exceptional service to students and student-athletes. Many of these entities, operating with small budgets and limited personnel, go above and beyond their job descriptions to serve the students. The Spotlight Award is a recognition of their dedicated and ceaseless service to the students and to the institution's mission. Thanks to these hard-working faculty, pass rates for the NCLEX-RN have been at 96%, well above state and national rates. The award was presented by Erin Kennedy, Lock Haven APSCUF chapter president, to department representative Darlene Ardary. 

The second was awarded to sport management faculty member, Dr. Dain TePoel, who received the Outstanding Scholarship Award from the University Faculty Awards Committee in recognition of his significant contributions to the cultural study of sport for the 2024-25 academic year. His peers have described his scholarship as innovative, theoretically rigorous, evidence-based, and “game-changing,” noting the national impact of his work on race, sport, politics, and public memory. Between 2020 and 2025, he has served as a peer reviewer for five journals, reviewed two books, contributed invited entries on sport and activism, and presented his research at 30 national and international conferences.

Additionally, he has published in leading journals, such as Sport in Society, Sport History Review, and The Journal of Sport History. These publications reflect the relevance of his work across various disciplines and audiences. TePoel has also served as a book review editor for the Journal of Sport History and has received multiple funded grants.  

For the 2024-2025 academic year, Dr. Jacquelyn Borst, faculty member in the physician associate graduate program, received the Outstanding Service Award from the University Faculty Awards Committee in recognition of her exemplary service through sustained leadership at the program, university, professional, and community levels. As program director, she chairs multiple committees, oversees all accreditation and compliance requirements, manages extensive admissions and interview processes, and ensures the PA program meets rigorous ARC-PA standards.

At the university level, she has served on numerous committees, including the university-wide Promotion Committee, the Commission on the Status of Women (vice chair and chair), the HOPE Center advisory board, and the College of Health Professions DEI Committee. Borst provided service to APSCUF through leadership roles on the Social Justice Committee, Executive Council, and other governance bodies.

Her professional service includes a decade of leadership within the Pennsylvania Society of Physician Associates, where she served multiple consecutive terms as president and helped advance major regulatory reforms for the PA profession, as well as national leadership roles within AAPA’s House of Delegates and the Commission on the Health of the Public, where she now serves as chair. Beyond academia, she founded and directs the International Impact through Medicine Foundation, coordinating long-term medical service programs in Haiti and Honduras, providing direct clinical care, training community health workers, and leading more than 40 medical service trips involving PA students. Her recent community service includes coordinating volunteers for Pack Hope Centre County, Night to Shine, and the Remote Area Medical Clinic.