{"id":13864,"date":"2026-06-05T09:07:33","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T13:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/staffsenate\/?p=13864"},"modified":"2026-06-05T09:10:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T13:10:14","slug":"congratulations-to-our-newly-elected-staff-senators-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/staffsenate\/2026\/06\/05\/congratulations-to-our-newly-elected-staff-senators-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations to Our Newly Elected Staff Senators!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Staff Senate held elections in April to welcome new Staff Senators who will begin their terms in July 2026 for the 2026-2027 Academic Year. We had an impressive pool of 32 highly qualified candidates competing for 12 open positions, making this a very competitive election cycle. In addition, 390 staff members participated by casting their votes. Thank you to everyone who ran for Staff Senate and to all who took part in the voting process.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to the individuals elected, listed alphabetically below along with the division they represent.<\/p>\n<p>Claire Allison, Student Affairs<br \/>\nLyndsay Anthony, Administration and Finance<br \/>\nRachael Currie, Academic Affairs<br \/>\nRichard Gamble, Enrollment Management and Student Success<br \/>\nIsaiah Lunsford, Delegate at Large<br \/>\nHeather McGuire, Academic Affairs<br \/>\nAmber McKendrick, Delegate at Large<br \/>\nHaley McLeod, Academic Affairs<br \/>\nKatie Roper, Administration and Finance<br \/>\nCrystal Shuler, Administration and Finance<br \/>\nHolli Stillman, Academic Affairs<br \/>\nAndrew Thigpen, Administration and Finance<\/p>\n<p>Once again, congratulations to those elected to serve on Staff Senate. If you see these individuals around campus, please join us in congratulating them.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-13869\" src=\"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/staffsenate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/370\/2026\/06\/BACK-Staff-Senate-Shirt-281x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"168\" height=\"179\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff Senate held elections in April to welcome new Staff Senators who will begin their terms in July 2026 for the 2026-2027 Academic Year. We had an impressive pool of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3383,"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":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-staffsenate-information"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/staffsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13864","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\/3383"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/staffsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13864"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/staffsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13870,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/staffsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13864\/revisions\/13870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/staffsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/staffsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/staffsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}