Please read below for updates from the Office of Student Activities & Engagement:

• Eagle Award Nominations are now being accepted! The Eagle Awards Ceremony is an annual event that recognizes student leaders, clubs, events, faculty and staff that have positively impacted the UMW community this year. Nominations will be accepted through March 15th, and the ceremony (open to all members of the UMW community) will be held on Thursday, April 18.
  • Submit nominations here: https://umw.presence.io/form/eagle-awards-nomination-form 
• There will be a Student Employment Fair held on Tuesday, February 27th from 11am-1pm in the Living Rooms of the CRUC. This is a great opportunity for departments to promote open student staff positions they will have available for the 2024-2025 academic year.
  • If your department is interested in participating, please submit the registration form here: https://umw.presence.io/form/spring-2024-student-employment-fair-registration-form
• If your department oversees student employees, interns, mentors, etc. that are graduating this May, they are eligible for involvement cords as a part of their graduation regalia.
  • For more information and to submit their names for eligibility, please complete this form: https://umw.presence.io/form/2024-seniors-eligible-for-graduation-cords

If you have any questions about these items, please don’t hesitate to reach out to Sandrine Sutphin at ssutphin@umw.edu or sae@umw.edu.

The Office of Student Activities & Engagement is excited to announce the 2023-2024 elected student leaders for Student Government Association, Class Council, Honor Council, Student Conduct Review Board, and Finance Committee:

Student Government Association
President: Jaylyn Long
Vice President/Senate President: Kaylah Lightfoot
Senate Vice President: Tonia Attie
Community Relations Chair: Shadwick Yoder
Diversity/Unity Coordinator Chair: Nahjah Wilson

Class of 2024 Senators:
Jenny Wolfe

Class of 2025 Senators:
Conner Rogers
Martina Pugh
Will Thompson
Nahjah Wilson

Class of 2026 Senators:
Katherine Armstrong
Tonia Attie
Amira Said
Josiah Schlechty

Class Council, Class of 2024
President: Madison DeWitt
Vice President: Jaylyn Long
Promotions Director: Whitley Kupchyk

Class Council, Class of 2025
President: Shadwick Yoder
Vice President: Shadwick Yoder
Treasurer: Marion Robinson
Promotions Director: Madison Van Buren

Class Council, Class of 2026
President: Torres
Vice President: Chris Walker
Treasurer: Jack Sabio
Promotions Director: Ashley Lam

Honor Council
President: Hannah Lee

Class of 2024 Representatives:
Aisling Berrios
Ariana Chase
Gabriella Nguyen

Class of 2025 Representatives:
Lordina Agyekun
Christopher Anderson
Merna Mousa
Marion Robinson

Class of 2026 Representatives:
Amaya De Jesus
Adelaide Gill
Mallory Thompson

Student Conduct Review Board
President: Bailey McNabb
Vice President: Megan Rinald

Class of 2024 Representatives:
Sarah Bazemore
Jenny Vuong

Class of 2025 Representatives:
Lucas Anderson
Phoebe Root
Bridget Zagrobelny

Finance Committee
Christopher Anderson
Avery Nelson
Will Thompson

Students who are forming a new non-competitive student wrestling club on campus are looking for a faculty or staff advisor. They are ideally looking for someone with background knowledge of wrestling, but they do not expect this advisor to be at every practice and/or act as a coach.

If you are interested, or know someone who might be, please email Sandrine Sutphin, Director of Student Activities & Engagement, at ssutphin@umw.edu.

Please read below for updates from the Office of Student Activities & Engagement:

• Eagle Award Nominations are now being accepted! The Eagle Awards Ceremony is an annual event that recognizes student leaders, clubs, events, faculty and staff that have positively impacted the UMW community this year. Nominations will be accepted through March 10th, and the ceremony (open to all members of the UMW community) will be held on Thursday, April 13.
  • Submit nominations here: https://umw.presence.io/form/eagle-awards-nomination-form 
• There will be a Student Employment Fair held on Tuesday, February 21st from 11am-1pm in the Living Rooms of the CRUC. This is a great opportunity for departments to promote open student staff positions they will have available for the 2023-2024 academic year.
  • If your department is interested in participating, please submit the registration form here: https://umw.presence.io/form/student-employment-fair-registration-form
• If your department oversees student employees, interns, mentors, etc. that are graduating this May, they are eligible for involvement cords as a part of their graduation regalia.
  • For more information and to submit their names for eligibility, please complete this form: https://umw.presence.io/form/seniors-eligible-for-graduation-cords 

If you have any questions about these items, please don’t hesitate to reach out to Sandrine Sutphin at ssutphin@umw.edu or Michael Middleton at mmiddlet@umw.edu.

The Office of Student Activities & Engagement would like to announce several different ways for your department to connect with students at the start of the fall semester:

• The Eagle Resource Fair will take place on Wednesday, August 17 (first-year move-in day), from noon  to 3 p.m., in the Chandler Ballroom. This fair is an opportunity for groups from on and off campus to interact with new students and their families. Please register for this event.
• Club Carnival will take place on Wednesday, Aug. 24, from 5 to 7 p.m., on Ball Circle. Club Carnival is similar to the Eagle Resource Fair but on a much larger scale, and it’s an opportunity to interact with many more students. Please register for Club Carnival. 
• A Student Employment Fair will take place on Thursday, Aug. 25, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., in the University Center Living Rooms. If your department has open student staff positions you’re looking to fill, you’re invited to host a table at the event for students who are looking to work on campus. Please register for this event. 
• We are currently compiling a list of events that are open to all students to include in the Eagle Takeoff schedule for the first six weeks of the semester. If your department is hosting an event that can be included in this schedule, please submit it.

Questions about any of these events or initiatives? Feel free to email Sandrine at ssutphin@umw.edu.

University departments are invited to register to participate in Spring Club Carnival, which will take place on Wednesday, January 12 from 5-7 p.m. in the University Center. Club Carnival is a great way to promote your office, services you provide, and/or open student staff positions you have available.

You can register to participate here: https://umw.presence.io/form/umw-spring-2022-club-carnival-registration-form

Email mmiddlet@umw.edu with any questions.

The Sophomore Experience Working Group (charge below) is seeking feedback from students in the Class of 2024 about their needs going into their sophomore year, as well as from upperclassmen about their sophomore year experience. This feedback will help guide recommendations that will be presented to UMW leadership.

Please share these links with students and encourage them to complete the appropriate survey:

Survey for the Class of 2024: https://umw.presence.io/form/class-of-2024-sophomore-experience-survey
Survey for Upperclassmen: https://umw.presence.io/form/upperclassmen-experience-survey

The charge of the Sophomore Experience Working Group is to determine how to recapture opportunities for relationship-building and student engagement among our rising sophomores in the Class of 2024. Working group members should identify methods of student success for these students inside and outside the classroom in light of their 2020-21 experiences as well as opportunities for faculty, staff, and other students to get to know the wonderful students that make up the Class of 2024.

If staff or faculty have feedback or suggestions for the sophomore experience for the Class of 2024, please send them to ssutphin@umw.edu.