Missy Sernatinger is the First Year Experience program coordinator and has been with UCCS for six years. She is the co-chair of the UCCS Staff Association Policy Committee and has served as a representative and executive member of the University of Colorado Staff Council (UCSC). She is also a recipient of one of two 2019 Staff Excellence Awards.

Missy is currently working towards a Master’s of Public Affairs at UCCS and hopes to use the knowledge gained in her classes to enhance her staff governance positions. She aims to shift Staff Association into an advocacy and policy-driven support for staff on campus. Passionate about shared governance, she also aims to build even stronger bonds with Faculty Assembly and Student Government Association leadership.

Transparency, knowledge, and access are values Missy holds, and she will work to provide weekly office hours for staff to access Staff Association executive board members so that all UCCS staff members can feel that Staff Association has the ability to hear their voice. She will also compare the structure of Staff Association against the use and structure of staff governance at UCCS' sibling schools and advocate for any changes that might help Staff Association better coordinate and reflect a more CU standard of shared governance operations.