Anna Mraz, senior academic advisor in CEHD Student Services, won a 2020 John Tate Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Advising. The Tate award recognizes high-quality advising at the University and honors contributions that academic advising and career services make in helping students formulate and achieve their intellectual, career, and personal goals.

In her nomination, students described Anna as prepared, knowledgeable, empathetic, encouraging, intelligent, kind, and understanding. Anna has also focused her personal and professional work to advance understanding of diversity and equity, and how students are impacted by the climate of the University every day as they navigate coursework, adjustment to campus life, and career planning. Anna helped implement the Strengths-based model in CEHD and helped expand that work campus-wide. Anna has also been an advisor to the CEHD Undergraduate Student Board and a co-chair of the Academic Advising Network, where under her leadership a New Advisor Group was created to build community and learning for all new advising staff at the University. One of four 2020 Tate Award winners, Mraz will be honored at the John Tate Professional Development Conference and Awards Ceremony on March 4.