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Culture, Community, Celebrations – 2023 Year in Review! 🎉🎊🎈

CSEA Student Voice

It has been a busy year for the Center for Student Engagement and Activities! Getting to connect with so many of our talented students over the last 12 months has left us endlessly honored, grateful, and inspired. As we’re wrapping up 2023, we wanted to go down memory lane and highlight some of the amazing moments we’ve had this year with our #NUfam!

We started off the year strong with our inaugural CSEA Webinar with Crystal Chisholm on Building your Personal Brand!

We went on to do five more webinars throughout the year on topics including social media, self-publishing, AI, goal setting, and mentoring! In case you missed it, you can view now these webinar recordings right here on our blog!

What topics/speakers would you like to see next?

Throughout 2023 we also had a variety of celebrations highlighting a diverse range of cultures, experiences, and wisdom.

At our events, we asked you:

About Hispanic Heritage:

Your thoughts on self-care:

We gamified learning:

Through various cultural lenses:

And of course, gave away lots of prizes! 🏆

In addition, we had some big wins for cultural competency and inclusivity through training over 50 members of our NU Community in creating Safe Zones for LGBTQIA+ communities and raising the inclusive pride flag for the first time at Spectrum Campus!

One of our favorite highlights from this year was getting to connect with our wonderful students and alumni in person!

We still fondly reminisce about our Lunar Year Celebration in February at Spectrum Campus. 🧧🎊 (View our full event recap here!)

And we will never forget the magic at the San Diego Pride Parade in July. 🌈✨

We highlighted some amazing students voices with our First-Generation and Military-Affiliated Panels. (Recordings also available on this blog!)

And we can’t forget the wonderful collaboration we did with Student Wellness and The Whole Person Center for our Guided Journaling Event!

To say this was a big year for us would be an understatement. We are truly humbled by the increase in engagement we’ve seen in 2023 and are so excited to see what 2024 has in store for us!

We will continue to provide opportunities for connection, learning, and joy for our students and we hope that you will be a part of this journey with us!

Keep up to date with our student organizations, events, and programs through our Linktr.ee! And be sure to check your NU email and your D2L container at the beginning of each month to see what we have in store!

Thank you again to everyone who took the time to connect with us, attend one of our events/webinars, join a student organization, and read our blog!

We wish you all a Happy Holiday Season and New Year! We’ll see you in 2024!

P.S. What was your favorite memory of 2023? Leave a comment to let us know!

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Women’s History Month, Guided Journaling, Social Media, and More! March Recap 🎉🌻📚

CSEA Student Voice

The Center for Student Engagement and Activities has had a busy March! As we’re wrapping up and preparing for the new month ahead, we wanted to share an ICYMI recap of all the fun stuff we’ve been up to!

We started off March by celebrating Women’s History Month with our Leadership Student Organization, OmegaNU. In honor of this year’s theme, Celebrating Women Who Tell Our Stories, we reflected on those who have helped us in our own journeys and inspire us to tell our stores.

We got competitive in a game of Women’s History Trivia.

And were inspired by these powerful TikToks!

@tyen__

This body is not a prison. Be unapologetic #SonyaReneeTaylor #MemorableVerses

♬ Body is not an apology by Sonya Renee Taylor – Poetic Therapy
@raquel_willis

Monica Roberts is BlackTransHistory. An awardwinning reporter and founder of TransGriot. #fyp #viral #journalism #womenshistorymonth

♬ emo girl – mgk & WILLOW

In addition to this, we had the opportunity to support the NU Speaker Series, featuring the Women’s History Month-themed talk: Be Unstoppable by Julie Ducharme. Themes of love, learning from failure, among others were empowering! 

Following our Women’s History Month festivities, we had a Mentoring Webinar with speaker Prince Marshall where we learned how to make meaningful connections, develop as a mentor/mentee, and how to utilize the amazing benefits of our NU Mentoring Network (which you should definitely sign up for if you haven’t already!).

Speaking of webinars, we also had a Social Media Webinar where NU’s very own social media team—Jess Booth and Cloe Rehbein—taught us how to glow up our social media, create a content strategy, and use our social media to grow our personal brands!

If you haven’t already, we definitely recommend you follow NU’s social media channels. If you tag them and use our hashtags #NUfam and #NUCSEA, you might just be featured!

Both our Mentoring Webinar and Social Media Webinar recordings can be viewed right here on our blog under the “Event Recordings” tab.

Last but not least, we also took some time this March to pause and engage with mindfulness through our Guided Journaling Session on self-care. In collaboration with Student Wellness, the Whole Person Center, and our Mind + Body Wellness Student Organization, we reflected on what makes us feel alive, how community shows up for us, and how we can celebrate ourselves.

We had so much fun getting to connect with our students and NU Community this month and we hope you join us next month to continue the conversations, connections, and celebrations!

To avoid missing out on our future events, keep up with us on our CSEA Linktr.ee and be sure to check out the “What’s NU this Month?” page right here on our blog to view our upcoming events and the monthly student club meeting schedule!