{"id":19291,"date":"2025-11-26T11:31:33","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T17:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/business\/?p=19291"},"modified":"2026-01-30T11:33:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T17:33:07","slug":"faculty-and-staff-kudos-november-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/business\/faculty-and-staff-kudos-november-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Faculty and Staff Kudos, November 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\"Small
From left: Kalia Vang, Odai Khasawneh, Sam Girard, Morgan Baranczyk, and Dean Kaushal Chari.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Congratulations to the Lubar College staff and faculty members who were recognized for their advocacy of international students at UWM’s International Advocate Recognition Ceremony.\u00a0Morgan Baranczyk, Amit Bhatnagar, Sam Girard, Odai Khasawneh and Kalia Vangwere lauded for significantly impacting the lives of UWM international students and study abroad participants. This recognition comes directly from UWM students, who were asked to nominate those faculty and staff members who showed them exceptional support and assistance. The ceremony is presented by the Center for International Education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Congratulations to the Lubar College staff and faculty members who were recognized for their advocacy of international students at UWM’s International Advocate Recognition Ceremony.\u00a0Morgan Baranczyk, Amit Bhatnagar, Sam Girard, Odai Khasawneh and Kalia Vangwere lauded for significantly impacting the lives …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3012,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","uwm_wg_additional_authors":[]},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\nLubar College of Business<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/business\/faculty-and-staff-kudos-november-2025\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Faculty and Staff Kudos, November 2025\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Congratulations to the Lubar College staff and faculty members who were recognized for their advocacy of international students at UWM’s International Advocate Recognition Ceremony.\u00a0Morgan Baranczyk, Amit Bhatnagar, Sam Girard, Odai Khasawneh and Kalia Vangwere lauded for significantly impacting the lives …\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/business\/faculty-and-staff-kudos-november-2025\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Lubar College of Business\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-11-26T17:31:33+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-01-30T17:33:07+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/business\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/554\/2026\/01\/International-Advocates_20251119-scaled.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"2560\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1920\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"helaine@uwm.edu\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"helaine@uwm.edu\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/business\/faculty-and-staff-kudos-november-2025\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/business\/faculty-and-staff-kudos-november-2025\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"helaine@uwm.edu\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/business\/#\/schema\/person\/b290015a81dd966a26a6dda7b21370f8\"},\"headline\":\"Faculty and Staff Kudos, November 2025\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-11-26T17:31:33+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-01-30T17:33:07+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/business\/faculty-and-staff-kudos-november-2025\/\"},\"wordCount\":103,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/business\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/business\/faculty-and-staff-kudos-november-2025\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/business\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/554\/2026\/01\/International-Advocates_20251119-scaled.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"News\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/business\/faculty-and-staff-kudos-november-2025\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/business\/faculty-and-staff-kudos-november-2025\/\",\"name\":\"Faculty and Staff Kudos, November 2025 - Lubar College of Business\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/business\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/business\/faculty-and-staff-kudos-november-2025\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/business\/faculty-and-staff-kudos-november-2025\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/business\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/554\/2026\/01\/International-Advocates_20251119-scaled.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-11-26T17:31:33+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-01-30T17:33:07+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/business\/faculty-and-staff-kudos-november-2025\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/business\/faculty-and-staff-kudos-november-2025\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/business\/faculty-and-staff-kudos-november-2025\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/business\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/554\/2026\/01\/International-Advocates_20251119-scaled.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/business\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/554\/2026\/01\/International-Advocates_20251119-scaled.jpg\",\"width\":2560,\"height\":1920,\"caption\":\"From left: Kalia Vang, Odai Khasawneh, Sam Girard, Morgan Baranczyk, and Dean Kaushal Chari.\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/business\/faculty-and-staff-kudos-november-2025\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/business\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Faculty and Staff Kudos, November 2025\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/business\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/business\/\",\"name\":\"Lubar College of Business\",\"description\":\"\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/business\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/business\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/business\/#organization\",\"name\":\"University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/business\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/business\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/business\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/554\/2020\/11\/uwm-seo-logo.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/business\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/554\/2020\/11\/uwm-seo-logo.jpg\",\"width\":225,\"height\":224,\"caption\":\"University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/business\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"}},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/business\/#\/schema\/person\/b290015a81dd966a26a6dda7b21370f8\",\"name\":\"helaine@uwm.edu\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/3a475dc1210c244749b67d34761c71a2a190eee43fb113c13611d162fb49b4e0?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/3a475dc1210c244749b67d34761c71a2a190eee43fb113c13611d162fb49b4e0?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/3a475dc1210c244749b67d34761c71a2a190eee43fb113c13611d162fb49b4e0?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"helaine@uwm.edu\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Lubar College of Business","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/business\/faculty-and-staff-kudos-november-2025\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Faculty and Staff Kudos, November 2025","og_description":"Congratulations to the Lubar College staff and faculty members who were recognized for their advocacy of international students at UWM’s International Advocate Recognition Ceremony.\u00a0Morgan Baranczyk, Amit Bhatnagar, Sam Girard, Odai Khasawneh and Kalia Vangwere lauded for significantly impacting the lives …","og_url":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/business\/faculty-and-staff-kudos-november-2025\/","og_site_name":"Lubar College of Business","article_published_time":"2025-11-26T17:31:33+00:00","article_modified_time":"2026-01-30T17:33:07+00:00","og_image":[{"width":2560,"height":1920,"url":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/business\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/554\/2026\/01\/International-Advocates_20251119-scaled.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"helaine@uwm.edu","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"helaine@uwm.edu"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/business\/faculty-and-staff-kudos-november-2025\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/business\/faculty-and-staff-kudos-november-2025\/"},"author":{"name":"helaine@uwm.edu","@id":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/business\/#\/schema\/person\/b290015a81dd966a26a6dda7b21370f8"},"headline":"Faculty and Staff Kudos, November 2025","datePublished":"2025-11-26T17:31:33+00:00","dateModified":"2026-01-30T17:33:07+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/business\/faculty-and-staff-kudos-november-2025\/"},"wordCount":103,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/business\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/business\/faculty-and-staff-kudos-november-2025\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/business\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/554\/2026\/01\/International-Advocates_20251119-scaled.jpg","articleSection":["News"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/business\/faculty-and-staff-kudos-november-2025\/","url":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/business\/faculty-and-staff-kudos-november-2025\/","name":"Faculty and Staff Kudos, November 2025 - Lubar College of Business","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/business\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/business\/faculty-and-staff-kudos-november-2025\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/business\/faculty-and-staff-kudos-november-2025\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/business\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/554\/2026\/01\/International-Advocates_20251119-scaled.jpg","datePublished":"2025-11-26T17:31:33+00:00","dateModified":"2026-01-30T17:33:07+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/business\/faculty-and-staff-kudos-november-2025\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/uwm.edu\/business\/faculty-and-staff-kudos-november-2025\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/business\/faculty-and-staff-kudos-november-2025\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/business\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/554\/2026\/01\/International-Advocates_20251119-scaled.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/business\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/554\/2026\/01\/International-Advocates_20251119-scaled.jpg","width":2560,"height":1920,"caption":"From left: Kalia Vang, Odai Khasawneh, Sam Girard, Morgan Baranczyk, and Dean Kaushal Chari."},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/business\/faculty-and-staff-kudos-november-2025\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/business\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Faculty and Staff Kudos, November 2025"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/business\/#website","url":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/business\/","name":"Lubar College of Business","description":"","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/business\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/business\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/business\/#organization","name":"University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee","url":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/business\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/business\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/business\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/554\/2020\/11\/uwm-seo-logo.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/business\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/554\/2020\/11\/uwm-seo-logo.jpg","width":225,"height":224,"caption":"University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/business\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"}},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/business\/#\/schema\/person\/b290015a81dd966a26a6dda7b21370f8","name":"helaine@uwm.edu","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/3a475dc1210c244749b67d34761c71a2a190eee43fb113c13611d162fb49b4e0?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/3a475dc1210c244749b67d34761c71a2a190eee43fb113c13611d162fb49b4e0?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/3a475dc1210c244749b67d34761c71a2a190eee43fb113c13611d162fb49b4e0?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"helaine@uwm.edu"}}]}},"meta_fields":{"feat_img_video":[""],"feat_img_caption":["feat-img-caption-on"],"breadcrumbs_display":["breadcrumbs-on"],"otp_nav_display":["otp-on-mobile"],"_yoast_wpseo_primary_category":["39"],"_yoast_wpseo_estimated-reading-time-minutes":[""],"_yoast_wpseo_wordproof_timestamp":[""],"feat_img_gallery":[""],"_wp_old_date":["2023-07-24","2026-01-30"],"_yoast_indexnow_last_ping":["1769794296"],"post_layout":["post-layout-theme"],"_yoast_wpseo_focuskeywords":[""],"_yoast_wpseo_keywordsynonyms":[""],"_dp_original":["18268"],"_edit_lock":["1772225139:3012"],"_edit_last":["3012"],"_uwm_wg_content_review_log":["a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:11:\"reviewer_id\";i:0;s:6:\"status\";s:5:\"reset\";s:10:\"entry_date\";s:19:\"2026-03-01 02:11:36\";s:16:\"priority_content\";s:0:\"\";s:4:\"note\";s:43:\"Content review reset at start of new cycle.\";}}"]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3012"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19293,"href":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19291\/revisions\/19293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}