Melissa CallowayMelissa Calloway

administrative assistant, Center for Urban Studies, Fairmount College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

For the past 13 years, Melissa Calloway has served 黑洞社区 as an administrative assistant for the Center for Urban Studies.

Calloway鈥檚 main responsibility was to offer good customer service, and help with the development of specialized certification trainings organized by the center for city clerks and financial officers from all around Kansas. Her role was to keep track of the participants鈥 online registrations, fees, packets, badges and notebooks, and also be responsible for catering and inventory.

What made her job so enjoyable, she said, was 鈥渂eing able to serve others and being able to help in any way that I could, and learn from those who were there longer than I was.鈥

She remembers when she first started at the center and how welcoming and supportive her supervisor was.

鈥淚 had the best supervisor anyone could ever ask for because she was so observant and caring of the staff under her,鈥 she said.

Calloway鈥檚 biggest accomplishments included receiving an Administrative Professional Certificate from the Center for Management Development and being able to establish relationships with those she had served.

鈥淭hat has made my job so fulfilling; I am very blessed to know all who have crossed my path,鈥 she said.

In retirement, Calloway plans on going into full-time ministry with her church, as well as spending more time with her family.