Staff at the Great Service Week breakfast
Auxiliary Services Great Service Week

Group: Auxiliary Services

From the group: 

Auxiliary Services Great Service Week is an annual event that takes place one week out of each year. This year each Auxiliary Services department selected a week between mid-January and mid-March 2022 to celebrate Great Service Week. The focus of the week is to highlight the great customer service that the 2,000+ Auxiliary Services employees provide throughout the year. A highlight of Great Service Week is the annual Exceptional Service Breakfast event where 43 employees who were nominated by their peers received an Exceptional Service Award. The 43 recipients of the award were honored at the breakfast event where they were presented with a certificate and gift of appreciation. Another highlight of the week for all employees is the departmental recognition events. Each department hosts an event during Great Service Week to focus attention on the purpose of the week and recognize all employees for the customer service they provide throughout the year.

Past Events

With over 1800 people in attendance, the room was packed all day which made for a lot of excitement and buzz. PBS was at the event filming Three Cricketeers...

For this event we ran the megagame Watch the Skies. A game where the players representing nations confront an alien incursion...

Throughout the night we displayed many Khmer performers, some notable ones were Dean Tan (A local Khmer singer), Wattanak Dance Troupe (A Traditional dance group), and lastly our own Angels fashion show...

The event focused on fostering a space for those who wanted to practice their Spanish and wanted to build a community with their fellow Spanish-speakers.

Indian food was served to attendees and the auditorium was full of students, family, friends and the general public. The show consisted of two halves with about 6 performances/sets in each.

This event provided an opportunity for departments in the college to collaborate with the vision of increasing the graduate degree pipeline for historically underrepresented individuals.

The Rhetoric of Health and Medicine Symposium brings together researchers, teachers, and students interested in the intersection between language and medicine.

This dinner serves as a networking event to bring alumnae together with current grads, faculty, postdocs and staff to strengthen the connections within our community.

Attendees were able to network over dinner, listen to inspirational speakers, and learn more about the successes of SWE at the UMN.

This event focused on providing a platform for students to present their research to industry professionals, professors, peers, and graduate student mentors, and learn about the process of applying to graduate school and graduate student life.