Student Employee Appreciation Week
April 7-11, 2025 is Student Employee Appreciation Week!
Let’s Celebrate our Student Employees and Student Employee Supervisors
The University of North Dakota will be celebrating our Student Employees and Student Employee Supervisors the week of April 7-11. The office of Student Employment and Human Resources is asking you to share short videos, photos, and student employee experiences to be compiled for a video to share at our recognition event that will be held on Wednesday April 9. If interested in sharing your departments student employee stories, please submit to UND.studentemployment@UND.edu by Friday March 28, 2025, so we can share it with campus!
About Student Employment at UND
At UND, over 3,500 students are employed by the University, playing a key role in our education, research, and operational excellence.
Our student employees perform invaluable services with enthusiasm, dedication, and initiative. We depend on this workforce for our daily operations, so let’s celebrate them and take this opportunity to plan activities for the entire week, several days, or just one day.
Creative Ideas to Say "Thank You"
- Nominate one of your student employees for Student Employee of the Year!
- Small treats
- Working EXTRA hard gum cut-out
- A Formal Certificate of Appreciation
- Notes of gratitude
- A Rock Star Certificate of Appreciation
- Throwing a pizza party, having a pot-luck, or a build-your-own sundae bar
- Decorating your students door or office/work space
- Taking your employees out to lunch
- Asking staff members to take turns bringing treats each day of Student Employee Appreciation Week
- Filling goodie bags with a bottle of water or soda, packs of crackers, popcorn, candy, etc.
- Honoring your student employees with a round of applause in your staff meeting
- Creating silly awards: best telephone voice, best at making copies, best errand runner, etc.
- Having a secret pal that does little things for them throughout the week
- Sending a handwritten thank you note, letting them know how much you appreciate all they do
- Taking a picture of each of your student employees and posting on a bulletin board in the break room, and write why you are thankful for each one