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Legacy Award

About the Legacy Award

NFA seal in gold

The TMCC-NFA Legacy Award was created in 2023 to honor one member each who consistently represents NFA values in service on behalf of colleagues in areas such as academic freedom, shared governance, employee rights, collective bargaining, etc. 

  1. Nominees must be members in good standing who have maintained membership for more than two consecutive semesters.

  2. Nominees must have demonstrated outstanding service through one or more activities such as:

    • Effectively serving on a shared governance committee as an official TMCC-NFA representative

    • Actively recruiting new members to TMCC-NFA

    • Representing TMCC

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2026 - Beth Humphrey

Beth Humphrey

Professor Humphrey has been a staunch supporter of TMCC-NFA for years and embodies the spirit of the Nevada Faculty Alliance. Besides serving on the negotiating team for the 2022-25 TMCC-NFA contract, she consistently volunteers her time for chapter work, including serving on the Collective Bargaining Council this year. She doesn't just show up for meetings, she's there to do the work. She proudly supports chapter activities and attends every chapter meeting, forum, and social event we schedule. Beth is kind, fair minded, and dedicated to the principles of academic freedom, shared governance

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2025 - Julia Hammett

Julia Hammett

Anthropology Professor, Dr. Julia Hammett, was recognized as TMCC-NFA's 2025 Legacy Award at the year-end ceremony on May 9th. Serving in virtually every capacity in NFA since her arrival at TMCC three decades ago, Julia Hammett has been a driving force of both the TMCC Chapter and the NFA State Board. She's led TMCC-NFA through many difficult and challenging years, negotiating multiple contracts and defending faculty rights at every level. Prior to 2024-25, Julia was still serving as an officer of the TMCC-NFA Chapter and did not qualify for the Legacy Award. She was the unanimous choice once

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2024 - Mark Maynard

Mark Maynard

English Professor Mark Maynard became the second recipient of TMCC-NFA's Legacy Award which was presented at the year-end Happy Hours on April 26. Mark was recognized for his willingness to step-up on behalf of the Chapter. He has been a steadfast voice for faculty on the College Planning Council where he frequently must speak out in a group that consists mostly of individuals hand-picked by the President. Multiple faculty members have praised his detailed Planning Council notes, which are frequently the only source of information of the council's activities.


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2023 - Blisin Hestiyas

Professor Blisin Hestiyas

Professor Hestiyas took the reins of a difficult issue that affected all faculty who use Canvas to teach or support their classes. While negotiators worked to strengthen the collective bargaining agreement to restrict unscheduled visits to faculty classes, Professor Hestiyas realized that the language would not necessarily prevent unannounced access because an administrator's entry wasn't visible to the faculty member. In her role as chair of the Web College Committee of the Faculty Senate, she worked with other concerned faculty members to craft a proposal that tightened permissions and required visitors to be granted access to the class by either the faculty member or web college, which created a record of the visit. Her action has solved a concern expressed for years by nearly all faculty who use these online tools. She spent much the 2022-23 academic year working on behalf of her colleagues to protect academic freedom and enforce shared governance.