Campus Activities and Student Involvement

Campus Activities and Involvement Center

The Campus Activities and Involvement Center (CAIC) is students’ gateway to entertainment and involvement on campus. As part of the Division of Student Affairs, we are “creating experiences for life” by providing opportunities for students to participate actively, grow personally and explore new ideas and interests through a variety of entertainment and involvement experiences, including the annual Involvement Carnival. Our staff, and the students with whom we work, are committed to creating a vibrant campus community filled with diverse activities for all students. Students interested in learning how to get engaged with student organizations, hone their leadership skills, or simply to find out about events and activities can do so on WaveLink at https://uncw.campuslabs.com/engage.

Campus Activities

Campus Activities and Programs coordinate and promote opportunities to cultivate connection and social engagement for UNCW students. Our programs include: Association for Campus Entertainment (ACE); Ann Flack Boseman Gallery; Campus Life Marketing; Leadership Lecture Series; UNCWeekends; Campus Life Union Events; Summer @ the Dub; and the university-wide coordination of Fall and Spring UNCWelcome. For more information on Campus Activities & Programs, visit the Campus Activities and Involvement Center (CAIC) in the Fisher Student Center, Room 2029 or email clprograms@uncw.edu.

Summer @ the Dub

Summer @ the Dub features a comprehensive calendar of campus and community events for students throughout the summer months, including activities such as outdoor recreation, special events, summer sporting event tickets, and much more. For more information, visit the Campus Activities and Involvement Center (CAIC) in the Fisher Student Center, Room 2029 or email clprograms@uncw.edu.

Campus Dining

UNCW Campus Dining is committed to providing culinary options to satisfy diverse tastes. We deliver fresh and healthy food while also providing a high-quality experience prepared by professionally trained staff and award-winning chefs. Campus Dining locations are open to meet the schedules of students, staff and faculty.

Campus Dining offers four convenience stores on campus. These provide a wide range of ready to eat meals as well as pre-packaged snacks, drinks and more!

UNCW Campus Dining features several national brands throughout campus: Starbucks, Chick-fil-A, Panda Express, Subway, Einstein Bagels, Dunkin Donuts, and a Wilmington local favorite, Port City Java located in Randall Library. Local Restaurant Row is located in Hawk’s Nest and provides a space for local restaurants to pop up on campus to offer students more variety and a taste of Wilmington right here on campus!

For a full listing of dining locations and Meal Plan options, visit www.uncw.campusdish.com. Information about On-Campus Required and on-Campus Voluntary/Off Campus Meal Plans is available at http://uncw.edu/studentmealplan. Contact us at 910.962.3560, or see the Auxiliary Services One Card office in Warwick Center for more information.

Campus Life Facilities

Student life is enriched at UNCW by a broad spectrum of activities, many of which occur in or around the Campus Life facilities, which includes the Fisher Student Center, Fisher University Union, Burney Center and Warwick Center. The Fisher Student Center is a 73,000 square foot facility which houses student organization offices in the Campus Activities and Involvement Center, the Student Media Center, meeting rooms, lounges, study areas, the University Bookstore, Lumina Theater – a 330-seat movie theater, and views of the Campus Commons.

The Fisher University Union is a 62,000 square foot facility that houses the Hawk’s Nest food court concepts and dining space. Services in this facility include the post office, the Passport Office, and Provisions on Demand (a convenience store). Many student service offices, including the Career Center, Transition Programs, the Upperman African American Cultural Center, Centro Hispano, the Mohin-Scholz LGBTQIA Resource Office, the Asian Cultural Heritage Center, and the Campus Life Administrative Office are located in the Fisher Union. In addition, the Ann Flack Boseman Gallery is located on the second floor of the Fisher University Union with art on exhibit throughout the year.

The Burney Center houses the largest multipurpose ballroom space on campus. The Campus Life Reservation and Event Services office, which is located in the Fisher University Union, will be happy to speak with you about this and other reservable spaces in any of the Campus Life facilities.

The Warwick Center houses a large multi-purpose room which can be divided into as many as three smaller spaces. Areas of the multi-purpose room are available to the university community and the community at large for meetings, and conference proceedings. Dub’s Café, area is also located in the Warwick Center, as is the new UNCW Swap Shop where students can donate and access free clothing and other items.

Campus Life facilities and Campus Commons are student-oriented facilities in the center of campus that are welcoming, adaptable, well maintained, safe and accessible. These facilities are intentionally designed to be inviting and to encourage interaction with the community. As is the case for all campus facilities, it prominently features copies of the UNCW Seahawk Respect Compact.

Housing and Residence Life

The Department Office of Housing and Residence Life is responsible for the development of educational, cultural and social programs to enhance student life on campus. The goal of the Housing and Residence Life program is to create an environment conducive to academic pursuits and the personal growth of resident students. More than 250 Residence Life staff are responsible for the supervision of resident students in the residence halls, on-campus apartments, and suite-style buildings.

The university has residence hall facilities for over 5,000 students. All rooms are air-conditioned and furnished. Wifi and Ethernet computer networking, which allows student computers to access university software, has been installed in all residential facilities. Laundry facilities are available. The Residence Life program offers opportunities for student employment and leadership positions through hall governance. Students in all traditional residence halls, University Suites, Pelican, Sandpiper, Terrapin, and Loggerhead Halls, are required to participate in the university meal plan program. Sophomores, Juniors and Seniors who reside in other locations will not be required to have a university meal plan.

Student Media

Founded in 1948, The Seahawk, the student newspaper, publishes a weekly online edition (www.theseahawk.org) throughout the calendar year. The paper’s staff is composed entirely of students interested in journalism, multimedia and computer-assisted design. Atlantis, the student creative arts magazine, publishes literature and art created by student writers and artists from throughout the UNC system. The magazine is funded by student fees and advertising and sponsors public readings and art exhibits. TealTV is a student-run production unit that provides students hands-on experience in script writing, video production, broadcast journalism, digital-video editing, announcing and reporting. Founded in 1999, TealTV produces several original programs including “Seahawk Central News,” a program of campus news and information. TealTV’s programs air regionally on Time Warner Cable channel 5 and on the UNCW’s closed-circuit channel 77. Together, The Seahawk and “Seahawk Central” play valuable roles within UNCW’s interdisciplinary Journalism Minor. UNCW Student Media Sales & Marketing provides the program’s student publications with advertising and underwriting sales and marketing services and provides training for students interested in the business of media. UNCW Student Media also serves as home to other student organizations interested in mass media, such as Hawkstream Radio (podcasting station), and Flicker Film Society, which produces original student films and sponsors the annual Reel Teal Festival.

The Student Media Board (SMB) is UNCW Student Media’s governing body. A chancellor’s advisory board, the SMB advises student publications and works to ensure their First Amendment rights. Comprised of students, faculty, university staff and community professionals, the SMB allocates budgets and provides financial oversight. Applications for two student-at-large positions, appointed to the board annually, are accepted in the spring semester. More information about UNCW Student Media is available online at https://uncw.edu/studentmedia/index.html.