Greenville Tech’s Joy Finch Honored
May 3, 2014
GREENVILLE, SC – May 3, 2014 – Joy Finch, Environmental Health and Occupational Safety department head and instructor in the Corporate & Career Development Division at Greenville Technical College, received the prestigious Snider Lifetime Achievement Award from the Environmental Information Association (EIA).
The award is named in honor of Jack Snider Jr., a long-term EIA member and past national president. The intent of the award is to recognize exceptional professionals in the environmental field showing long-term dedicated services, multi-faceted involvement in the profession, and ethics in business.
Finch accepted the award at the 2014 National EIA Conference in San Antonio, Texas in March. She was a founding member and past president of the South Carolina chapter of EIA and was instrumental in getting the EIA Scholarship Program started.
The Environmental, Occupational Health and Safety Department led by Finch has provided training to more than 50,000 participants since 2004. This includes a little less than 7,000 people trained as certified renovators under EPA regulations passed in 2010. Training has taken place as far north as Alaska, as far west as Hawaii, and as far south as Trinidad.
In April, Finch was also named the recipient of a 2014 Converse College outstanding alumnae award. Finch pursued a double major at Converse in music and the humanities. She was recognized as part of the college’s 125th anniversary celebration.
