{"id":13173,"date":"2025-08-21T10:26:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T14:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/staffsenate\/?p=13173"},"modified":"2025-08-24T09:13:23","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T13:13:23","slug":"call-for-first-generation-faculty-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/staffsenate\/2025\/08\/21\/call-for-first-generation-faculty-staff\/","title":{"rendered":"Call for First Generation Faculty &amp; Staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcu.edu\/learn\/academic-success\/student-retention\/maps\/\">Mentoring and Persistence to Success (MAPS)<\/a> supports first-generation college students and wants to include celebrations of our first-generation faculty and staff. For example, hosting an event for faculty and staff to be celebrated by their peers during First Gen Week!<\/p>\n<p>The attached flyer and the same link below presents an opportunity for staff and faculty to identify as first-generation college students. This is our opportunity to bring people together and celebrate the achievements of our peers! Even if you do not identify as a First Generation Student yourself, we encourage you to pass this opportunity along to others in your departments or divisions to help spread the word.<\/p>\n<p>Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/wcu.az1.qualtrics.com\/jfe\/form\/SV_026W7rmvclJjTLM\">https:\/\/wcu.az1.qualtrics.com\/jfe\/form\/SV_026W7rmvclJjTLM<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/staffsenate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/370\/2025\/08\/FG-Directory_Catherine-MacCallum.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13174 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/staffsenate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/370\/2025\/08\/FG-Directory_Catherine-MacCallum-232x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mentoring and Persistence to Success (MAPS) supports first-generation college students and wants to include celebrations of our first-generation faculty and staff. For example, hosting an event for faculty and staff [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3407,"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":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-university-information"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/staffsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13173","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\/3407"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/staffsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13173"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/staffsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13186,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/staffsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13173\/revisions\/13186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/staffsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/staffsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/staffsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}