{"id":11491,"date":"2022-04-07T23:46:02","date_gmt":"2022-04-08T03:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/staffsenate\/?p=11491"},"modified":"2025-08-03T09:53:01","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T13:53:01","slug":"now-open-silent-auction-supporting-staff-senate-scholarship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/staffsenate\/2022\/04\/07\/now-open-silent-auction-supporting-staff-senate-scholarship\/","title":{"rendered":"Now Open &#8211; Silent Auction Supporting Staff Senate Scholarship"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Each year, the U Club hosts an event as a fundraising avenue for the Staff Senate Scholarship Fund, a scholarship supporting children and family members of WCU\u2019s staff. Scholarship recipients are chosen based on their academic performance, community service, and financial need. This year, the U Club is hosting an online silent auction that is open to the public, with a goal of raising $10,000. Bidding will run through 8:00pm on Saturday, April 9th and anyone can participate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biddingowl.com\/Auction\/home.cfm?auctionID=20429\">https:\/\/www.biddingowl.com\/Auction\/home.cfm?auctionID=20429 \u00a0<\/a>Items include dining and experience gift cards, gift baskets, and many other great items. 100% of proceeds go to the Staff Senate Scholarship.<\/div>\n<p>The Silent Auction will culminate with the Night on the Purple Carpet, a gala in support of student scholarships on Saturday, April 9 from 6-9pm at The Paper Mill Lounge in Sylva.\u00a0 Tickets are still available and tickets will be sold at the door if you haven&#8217;t had a chance to get a ticket. A $50 ticket includes live music, heavy hors d&#8217;oeuvres, desserts, and a cocktail.\u00a0 Wear your best Hollywood glam and walk the purple carpet for a great cause!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each year, the U Club hosts an event as a fundraising avenue for the Staff Senate Scholarship Fund, a scholarship supporting children and family members of WCU\u2019s staff. Scholarship recipients [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3094,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scholarship-committee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/staffsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11491","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\/3094"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/staffsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11491"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/staffsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11492,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/staffsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11491\/revisions\/11492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/staffsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/staffsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/staffsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}