Reflecting on the past year, we would like to take a moment to appreciate and acknowledge the contributions of staff members throughout the university. Your efforts, talents, and dedication to UNCG do not go unnoticed. You are the reason for your university's success. As we pause to Thank You, we also wish you a wonderful Holiday Season and New Year!
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Staff Senate Co-Chairs, Elyssa Tucker and Sobi Saqib
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Committee Semester Highlights
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Staff Assembly
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This semester, the UNC Staff Assembly organized the Chancellors' Cup Golf Tournament, which was a huge success! The UNC System Staff Assembly planned, promoted, and managed this event.This year's tournament raised $93,500. Daily donations continue. After costs, the net revenues will fund the JBR Scholarship Fund.
- Service
- The Service Committee has been busy volunteering with UNCGGardens, Out of the Garden Mobile Markets, the Annual Spartan Pantry, Veterans Day Card Signing, Foster Family Family Rooms, and, most recently, the Angel Tree. Thank you to everyone who helped with the Angel Tree Service project. We were fortunate with volunteers from all over campus to Donate Presents.
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Recognition
- Elections
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This year's elections committee updated staff senators' seats. This includes yearly June elections for all represented divisions and special elections for Academic Affairs, Office of Research and Engagement, Office of the Chancellor, and University Advancement!
- Fundraising
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Your donation to the UNCG Personnel Senate Scholarship fund will help hardworking UNCG staff. Gifts to this fund allow the UNCG Staff Senate to grant annual educational scholarships to eligible and deserving UNCG staff employees and their dependents/spouses/partners who are UNCG students. With your aid, the Staff Senate hopes to grant three $500 scholarships this year and in future years. Last year, it awarded two. Supporting UNCG staff scholarships rewards and retains brilliant, devoted individuals who keep the University functioning efficiently. Donate.
- Information Services
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Thank you to everyone who helped with the Angel Tree Service project | |
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Thinking about ITS updates: Search through the FAQ’s to get answers to your IT questions
- Professional Development Opportunities
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New Title IX Training Opportunities available.The Title IX and Bias Incidents session includes a brief overview of Title IX and Bias. This session provides participants with definitions of bias, hate crimes, and sex and gender-based discrimination and ways to recognize and report such incidents with the goal of supporting those impacted.
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The online Training Request Form, including all training descriptions, can be found here
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Updated Birthing Parent & Parenting Information: Click here
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3. ALL NEW: The website for information on Discrimination on the Basis of Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity & Gender Expression can be found here
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Support students
- Spring Fact Sheet
- Academic Calendar Spring 2023
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Here's a link to the local Islamic calendarThe two biggest religious holidays are: Ramadan runs from March 22 - April 21, 2023. This is a critical time for Muslim students and can often affect their academics due to the strict fasting required during this time.
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Here is a helpful daily calendar of when prayer and fasting are required through each day of the holiday. Eid al-Fitr is on April 21-22, 2023
- YOU ARE INVITED: More Than My Disability photography campaign
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It is available to UNCG students, staff, and faculty with disabilities and/or chronic conditions (s). This program promotes UNCG community belonging for this group. We aim to instill pride in participants and change viewers' views on disability to reduce stigma. The campaign will be photographed on Thursday, January 19th from 12pm to 4pm and Friday, January 20th from 10am to 2pm. This event will be held in EUC Suite 1's conference room: sponsored by Career & Professional Development Office (on the ground floor). The EUC's second-floor gallery outside the Dean of Students Office will display photos over the semester. Choose a photography appointment here. Scroll to the week of January 15-21. To tell your story and provide information that will be used to create the caption for your picture, use this link: https://go.uncg.edu/tell_your_story. This event is put on by the Zeta Phi Chapter of the Delta Alpha Pi International Honor Society, the Career and Professional Development Office, and the Office of Accessibility Resources and Services, with help from Student Affairs and money from an iBelong grant.
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NC A&T's Harrison Auditorium will host the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration on January 18. This yearly multi-institution event swaps venues and returns to an in-person style. The Spartan Chariot shuttles between UNCG and NC A&T and a live stream will be provided soon. The International Civil Rights Center and Museum's La'Tonya Wiley will conduct a student panel from each site. LaShonda Souza will represent UNCG on the panel and the Neo Black Society Gospel Choir will perform.
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- Want to support fellow staff members?
- Join the Staff Cares listserv
- The UNCG staff priority to help critically ill staff members that have exhausted their available leave balances was identified in 2015-16. The Staff Senate has worked with HR to meet this need by setting up a staff donation process.
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Donating sick leave may impact the amount of creditable service you will have at retirement if you are enrolled in the Teachers' and State Employees Retirement System (TSERS).
- If you have any questions about voluntary shared leave, please contact Stephen Hale in HR at 336-334-4514 / sahale3@uncg.edu
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Instructions on how to join the Staff Cares mailing list:send an email to STAFFCARES-L+subscribe@uncg.edu. You can leave this blank (or not).
- You will then receive a confirmation email message. Push the "join this group" button.As soon as you are confirmed, you are a member and will receive future announcements.
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