NC State Strengthens Commitment to First-Generation Student Success Through Summit, Celebration Week

Nov. 18, 2025

Campus Health's Pack Peers peer educator group promotes health-enhancing behaviors to NC State students.

NC State first-generation students speak as part of a panel at the First-Generation Student Success Summit.

NC State Strengthens Commitment to First-Generation Student Success Through Summit, Celebration Week

NC State recently celebrated a week of events designed to celebrate and support the success of first-generation college students, including a summit for faculty and staff to learn best practices around supporting first-generation students.

MSA students gather for a group picture in Vanderbilt University's Multicultural Center.

Nashville Cultural Immersion Trip

For Multicultural Student Affairs’ latest cultural immersion trip, 12 students and two professional staff members ventured to Nashville, Tennessee to learn about the history and culture of of a neighboring state.

University Honors student Osarobo Obasuyi explains her undergraduate research to an attendee of the Comparative Medicine Institute's

How Research Reshapes Futures

For a select group of University Honors Program students, the summer of 2025 was more than just another academic break — it was a defining chapter in their educational and research journeys.

WKNC staff holding up their awards after the CBI ceremony.

Student Media Wins National Awards

Student Media’s outlets brought home 39 awards, including recognition from the College Media Association (CMA) Pinnacle Awards, the Associated Collegiate Press and College Broadcasters Inc. National Student Production Awards.

News You Can Use

Resiliency and Community Support has launched a new Google Site for campus partners who need to reserve golf carts or radio rentals for their events.
The Department of Performing Arts and Technology has several holiday concerts this week, check out the full lineup!
Staff and students from WKNC, NC State’s student radio station, recently presented several sessions at a national student media convention.
The fifth annual Pantry Bowl will run through Nov. 30. Support the Feed the Pack Food Pantry’s mission to combat food insecurity at NC State.
Emails were sent to unit leaders on Nov. 11 soliciting the nomination of digital accessibility leads for each DASA unit. Unit leaders, please complete the nomination form by the close of business today.
There will be no Internal Connections newsletter the week of Thanksgiving (Tuesday, Nov. 25), and the last newsletter of 2025 will go out Tuesday, Dec. 8.

DASA Hours and Co-working

There is a DASA co-working session for employees across the division today from 1-5 p.m. in Talley Student Union, and a DASA Hours session with Vice Chancellor and Dean Doneka R. Scott tomorrow from 9:30-10:15 a.m. on the third floor of Park Shops.

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Reminders

DASA Executive Assistant Signa Carter will be taking a relief trip to Swannanoa, NC, in one of the areas hit hardest by Hurricane Helene, and is seeking any and all donations, including gently-used hats, gloves, scarves and jackets for adults and children by Nov. 26. If you would like to contribute, please contact Signa as soon as possible.
Through early December, Campus Health will offer weekly flu vaccination clinics for NC State faculty, staff and students across both main and Centennial campus.

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