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Soar into Summer 2025
Date moved for rain. As we prepare to transition into the summer months, we invite all staff to join us for Soar Into Summer — a seasonal celebration in recognition of your hard work, dedication, and contributions throughout the year.
This event is an opportunity to connect with colleagues, reflect on recent accomplishments, and enjoy a relaxing and uplifting atmosphere together.
📅 Date: May 20th
🕒 Time: 11AM-1PM
📍 Location: UNCW Amphitheater
Vote on Staff Senators by May 15th
The Staff Senator 2025 Ballot is now open through May 15, 2025. Please note, each UNCW staff member can only vote once per election cycle and can only vote within their division. Please click here to view our Staff Senate Bylaws for more information.
Click here to vote for your Senators
Applications Open for the Staff Senate Scholarship
Established and funded by generous staff donors, the Staff Senate Scholarship awards multiple merit-based scholarships each year with a minimum award amount of $500. All permanent SHRA and EHRA non-faculty employees and their dependents who are current UNCW undergraduate or graduate students are eligible to apply.
Please respond to the specific Staff Senate Scholarship short answer questions on the UNCW Scholarship Application to apply.
The priority application deadline was March 1, 2025, but applications will be accepted until June 1, 2025.
Applications Open for the Global Travel Grant
To encourage and support professional development through international experiences, Global Partnerships and International Education provides two grants for staff each year with a maximum award amount of $2,5000.
Awards can be used for various experiences and past examples have included co-leading study abroad, Yoga instructor training, learning about staffing and processes from other universities, and attending conferences.
Global Travel Grant Application
Applications are due by May 31, 2025, for travel associated with the following academic year.
Past News & Events
Soar into Summer with Staff Senate (formerly Staff Senate Strides) May 14 from 11 am - 1 pm in the Rec Center Mac Gym
Thanks to our vendors and those who came out to join the fun! If you have feedback or suggestions for next year, please let us know.
UNC System Employee Engagement Survey
UNCW is participating in the UNC System Employee Engagement Survey, a project developed to support the UNC Strategic Plan. It is a regularly scheduled survey on workplace satisfaction that took place in 2018, 2020 and 2022 and taking place again in 2024 at all UNC institutions. Employees will receive a personal survey link on March 25.
2023-24 Staff Priorities Survey Open Through Nov. 17
This valuable tool will help amplify the praises and concerns voiced by staff. The results will help the Senate to understand the varying experiences on campus better, identify goals that are realistic and measurable, establish staff priorities and measure the progress of existing programs and initiatives.
Survey responses are anonymous and will remain confidential. For questions or concerns, please email staffsenate@uncw.edu.
Janet B. Royster (JBR) Memorial Staff Scholarship Fund Applications Open Through September 30
Created in August 2011 by the UNC System Staff Assembly in memory of UNC-TV employee Janet B. Royster, this annual scholarship is open to any full-time, non-faculty, UNCW system employee. For the 2023-24 academic year, this scholarship will have a maximum award of $1,000 and can be used towards earning a degree or other professional certification.
UNCW Staff Senate Awards Seven Scholarships
The UNCW Staff Senate has awarded seven merit-based scholarships to aid employees or their dependents pursuing their degrees at the university. Each recipient received $706 to offset expenses.
“The investment the Staff Senate has made in our staff and their dependents through our scholarship fund has made a wonderful impact,” said Susan Smith, Staff Senate chair and UNC System Staff Assembly vice chair. “This commitment of staff supporting colleagues and their families is what the Staff Senate at UNCW does exceptionally well.”
This year’s recipients are:
- Justin Dowd, graduate programs academic advisor, Cameron School of Business
- Annabel Herring, dependent
- Jillian Bree Miles, dependent
- Veronica Mary-Paul Nelson, dependent
- Arilyn Elise Olson, dependent
- Alexander Joseph Schwarz, dependent
- Campbell Grace Wynn, dependent
The Staff Senate Scholarship is open to non-faculty employees working a minimum of three-fourths of the time and their dependents. The recipient must be accepted into an undergraduate or graduate program at UNCW.