{"id":10461,"date":"2020-10-16T02:09:17","date_gmt":"2020-10-16T02:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/staffsenate\/?p=10461"},"modified":"2025-08-03T09:50:24","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T13:50:24","slug":"years-of-service-celebration-week-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/staffsenate\/2020\/10\/16\/years-of-service-celebration-week-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Years of Service Celebration &#8211; Week 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Like hair in a biscuit, you are hanging on! <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We are so glad you have stuck with us, and we want to congratulate your commitment to WCU, our community, and our students!<\/p>\n<p>Continuing all month, we are celebrating the employees who hit a 5-year increment employment milestone with WCU and the State of North Carolina during the July 2019 &#8211; June 2020 fiscal year. So, if you have hit your employment milestone, use this month to celebrate yourself. Take time to reflect with admiration on your accomplishments and take time to look forward with anticipation! As Dr. Otto mentions in her address, \u201ctake the time to reflect and to think about all of the lives that we have impacted for the better.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Although we were unable to celebrate in person this year, we appreciate our campus representatives for taking the time to send out a special message. Most of all, to our honorees, THANK YOU for sharing your best self with Western Carolina University and your Catamount family!<\/p>\n<p>Please take a moment to hear a special word from <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/a6qBDr3UL8o\"><strong><u>Dr. Kadence Otto, Faculty Senate Chair<\/u><\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In case you missed it:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/staffsenate\/blog\/2020\/10\/08\/years-of-service-celebration-week-1\/?utm_source=cerkl&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=newsletter-10092020&amp;cerkl_id=10853395&amp;cerkl_ue=3L1QrHay5Hv22W14cc3Wcjv7l8la9fjWPLqkmCwm%2B2w%3D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Check out last week\u2019s message from <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Cory Causby, Associate Vice Chancellor for Human Resources<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like hair in a biscuit, you are hanging on! We are so glad you have stuck with us, and we want to congratulate your commitment to WCU, our community, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1153,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-university-information"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/staffsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/staffsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/staffsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/staffsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1153"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/staffsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10461"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/staffsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10694,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/staffsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10461\/revisions\/10694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/staffsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/staffsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/staffsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}