Shirl Gholston, a staff member for more than 25 years, received two honors at the 2019 Southern Association of Educational Opportunity Program Personnel, INC (SAEOPP) conference in New Orleans, Louisiana—the Service Award for her unwavering dedication to advancing equal education opportunity and the Unsung Support Award for increasing the college success rates of underrepresented students at UTC. She was also recently initiated into the prestigious Alpha Scholastic Honor Society for creating and leading transformational, pioneering student success initiatives.