SEAHAWK SNIPPETS
Hats Off to the 2020 Grads The Class of 2020 always will hold a special place in UNCW history. These resilient Seahawks persevered through hurricanes and a global pandemic to achieve excellence.
The Class of 2020 always will hold a special place in UNCW history. These resilient Seahawks persevered through hurricanes and a global pandemic to achieve excellence. While members of the Class of 2020 were unable to walk across the Trask Coliseum stage in May for the official UNCW commencement ceremonies due to the pandemic, the campus and community celebrated the newest Seahawk alumni in a host of other ways. The Class of 2020 includes national scholarship and fellowship recipients; academic, campus leadership and athletic award winners; and dedicated community volunteers. Although we couldn’t list all of their achievements, we could highlight all of their names in a “flippable” online commencement program (complete with gold and teal confetti) that was added to the university’s homepage to honor the Class of 2020. Graduates were also given personal attention from the university with every graduating senior receiving both a call from a faculty member within their academic department and a personal note. The notes (more than 2,600 of them) were part of UNCW’s firstever “Dear Seahawks” campaign. Each note was handwritten by one of over 150 employee volunteers. In another first, UNCW utilized a “Kudoboard” to provide families, employees and the community a chance to congratulate graduates publicly on a message wall-like platform. The university also promoted the graduates with several fun multimedia projects. A special edition of We Are UNCW, a photo mosaic and congratulations video all featured Class of 2020 graduates. – Christina Schechtman
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