Student Leadership

Student Leadership & Engagement at UNCW

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What is Student Leadership & Engagement?

Engagement is the process of a student entering into a mutual relationship with the UNCW campus which exceeds common involvement, produces enhanced academic or social belonging, and provides the student optimal learning and development. Leadership is the process of students excelling in one or more curricular and/or co-curricular area of campus and requires substantive engagement.

Examples of Student Leadership & Engagement at UNCW

Peer Navigators

Project Team: Nicole Tekulve, Lucy Holman, Susannah Benedetti, Nathan Saunders, Anne Pemberton, Laura Wiegand-McBrayer

Fall 2019, funded through a Pedagogy Initiative Award

The Peer Navigators project developed as a program to transform UNCW Library's student worker positions into interns and “peer navigators,” a forward-facing post used to describe the nature of their work with the campus at-large. This will alleviate confusion and inefficiency by combining these two service points, that of students and library faculty/staff, to form one central point of contact for library patrons.

MentorCHHS

Project Team: Tiffany Erichsen, Stacey Kolomer, and Hannah Catalano

Fall 2020, funded through a Pedagogy Initiative Award

Two mentorship programs, MentorSW and MentorPBH, connected students in social work and public health to experienced professionals with the primary goal of increasing students’ preparation for the workforce. This project also built relationships between UNCW and local professionals by providing opportunities for engagement. MentorCHHS also provided opportunities for students to participate in interprofessional career preparation workshops, to help mitigate the academic, professional, and social challenges students may encounter when transitioning from the classroom to the workplace.

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