The UNC Greensboro (UNCG) Division of Student Affairs iBelong Project received a record 29 proposals, 24 of which were accepted this year, totaling $10,250, focused on enhancing belonging on campus.
The UNCG iBelong project launched in 2019 with a campus survey intended to find out how the university can better promote a climate where everyone feels supported and welcomed. Student groups, organizations and faculty and staff can all submit proposals for funding. Ideas can expand on a prior year project or be an entirely new project.
This years’ projects have been selected for their innovative ideas to build deeper community and connections between students across campus.
- UNCG Spring Career Fair Blazer Rack (Career and Professional Development): Providing workplace appropriate blazer jackets to students for the Spring Career Fair.
- Diversifying Economics (Department of Economics): Inviting female alumni to talk about their experiences studying economics and about their careers.
- Accessible Icon Project (Community and Therapeutic Recreation): Service-learning project for Community and Therapeutic Recreation Students.
- Enhancing Asian American Pacific Islander Sense of Belonging (Japanese Club & Korean Student Association): Creating a buddy system/student support group for international, non-western students with a focus on Asian immigrants and Asian exchange students.
- The Weatherspoon and You: Connect, Collaborate, Converse (Weatherspoon Art Museum): A series of three events at the Weatherspoon Art Museum focused on engaging students interested in art and/or the museum.
- Advising and Sense of Belonging (School of Health and Human Sciences): The Health and Human Sciences advising team will hold events highlighting its new location and the importance of advising first-year students.
- The Visual Aesthetics Workshops (Office of the Dean of Students): Workshops to help prepare students for dressing professionally post-graduation.
- An Eye Toward the Future (Human Development and Family Studies): Graduate students will hold social gatherings to foster in-person connections,
- Spartans Strengthen Power-Conscious Approaches to Sexual Violence (Title IX UNC Greensboro): A five-week program that will invite students to participate in a weekly session on power-conscious approaches to sexual violence and create a campus-wide campaign to address harm-doing behaviors and sexual violence.
- Public Health Education Community Banquet: Engaging with campus dining to share ideas and recipes from the diverse student population while also educating about the Spartan Food Pantry.
- More Than My Disability Campaign (Alpha Delta Pi Honor Society): A photo display in Elliot University Center that aims to create and foster a sense of pride among students, faculty and staff with disabilities while helping to reduce the stigma. Students, faculty and staff can sign up now to have their photo taken.
- Crowned Success: A series of events focused on professional development and self-advocacy for Black female students.
- Thanks For Being A Good Human: Forming a “Good Human Team” on campus that will create tokens to give out to students for random acts of kindness.
- Student Leaders Summit: Holding a new student transition and first year experience student leader summit.
- AlphaAcademics (Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity): Expanding the AlphaAcademics program by offering weekly small incentives for guest speakers and participants as well as supporting off campus enrichment activities.
- International PAL: A support system for international students through weekly or biweekly gatherings and monthly events.
- Yellow Rose Workshop: Workshop to help the general student population with resumes, cover letters and LinkedIn profile.
- Music Education Rally (Music Education): A music education rally to bring together undergraduate and graduate student music education majors.
- Chinese New Year Celebration (School of Music): A public performance to celebrate the Chinese New Year in January.
- Fishing Day: An event to teach students how to fish on UNCG’s Piney Lake.
- Winter Welcome Self-Care Kit (Recreation and Wellness): Creating Winter Welcome Self-Care Kits to provide incoming students with information and branded items directly related to the enhancement of mental health and well-being.
- Brothers Doing Positive: UNCG Brothers Doing Positive is an Association of Leadership Educators grant funded program with the mission of providing Black men with a space to explore the Black experience.
- Nursing Student Differences (School of Nursing): A project to look at the lived experiences of male nursing students and Asian-American nursing students.
- Delight Ministries: The women of Delight Ministries will dress in warm Spring colors while exploring the variety of art at the Weatherspoon Museum. The group will then paint on canvases about what inspired them.
Story by Avery Craine Powell, University Communications
Photography by Martin W. Kane, University Communications
