Dear Colleagues,
A fully revised tax strategies brochure, incorporating recent changes from both the SECURE and CARES Acts is now available here and may be useful in conversations with your benefactors.
This information was promoted in an email that was sent on Sunday, August 2 to ~40K giving society members, FY20 donors and entities that had requested this information previously.
Please contact Laura Walker with any questions regarding this material.
Good morning team,
As we are preparing for the fall semester to begin next week, we wanted to provide an update about conference room usage. These procedures will be in effect beginning August 10th through December 22nd for both Eddy Street and Grace Hall.
While the anticipation is that the UR staff will be working largely remotely this fall (90% remote 90% of the time), we do realize that at times an in-person or hybrid meeting may be appropriate and we want to ensure that this can be accomplished.
To ensure we are following University protocols, the Business Continuity team has been working on procedures for using conference room space in both Eddy Street and Grace Hall. This document provides the details about safety protocols, cleaning schedules, and conference room usage.
There are a couple of notes:
If you have any questions, please contact Gavin McGuire or Lana Taylor. If you prefer to submit questions anonymously, you can do so using this google form. We will have a section in each week’s SouNDoff to address any questions or concerns.
Thank you for all that you do on behalf of Our Lady’s University.
-Gavin McGuire & Lana Taylor
Happy birthday to all our UR colleagues born in the month of August! We wish you a year filled with fun and good health.
8/4 – Jim Small
8/6 – Maribeth Spittler
8/10 – Tara Gilchrist
8/11 – Janet Jessup
8/12 – Kathryn Edel
8/12 – Melissa Medina
8/13 – Sean Carroll
8/14 – Lauren Dolzan
8/16 – Brian Benedict
8/17 – Jennifer Pratt
8/18 – Tim Kelly
8/19 – Brent Henningfeld
8/19 – Julia Sama
8/23 – Amanda Retartha
8/23 – Shaheen Goldrick
8/27 – George West
8/30 – Abbey Johnson
8/30 – Michelle Varda
Team,
Student Affairs is inviting our teams to lend a helping hand with undergraduate Move-In (Aug. 1-9). They are offering us the opportunity to be the first face greeting our students and families. The particular need is for 60-90 minute shifts in our staging area parking lots, where students and their families arrive before being released to their residence halls.
If you are willing to share your time, please share with your team and fill out this brief google form. For any additional questions, please contact Leah Kicinski, Assistant Director for Off-Campus and Transitions, who coordinates the University’s Move-In efforts, at lkicinsk@nd.edu.
Thank you!
Heather Christophersen
Dear Staff Colleagues,
We write to you today regarding an important new initiative as we prepare to welcome our students–as well as many of you–back to campus. As we’ve emphasized in the messages we’ve sent over the past months, our ability to reopen successfully depends on each of us doing our part, for the sake of our own health and well-being and that of everyone around us.
To ensure that each member of this community understands the steps we need to take, we are launching the Return to Campus Orientation Program, an online training module. Designed to familiarize students, faculty and staff with the University’s COVID-19 protocols, the program was developed through a collaboration between Human Resources, the Provost’s Office, Student Affairs, the Office of Information Technologies, and the Hesburgh Libraries, with input from faculty, staff and students.
The module takes less than 10 minutes to complete and is designed to ensure that each of us is fully aware of University policies on, among other things, face masks, hand hygiene, and physical distancing. It also underscores the importance of the new daily health check which will launch next week. You’ll receive a separate email about this.
Completion of this on-line orientation program is required for all faculty, staff and students. Please complete the training by July 31. At the end of the module, each of us is asked to affirm our commitment to following the protocols the University has established.
You can access the program via the link below.
This orientation program is only one of the many ways we are underscoring the importance of these essential health and safety protocols. Because our individual choices are so critical to a safe reopening of campus and to our ability to remain open for the Fall Semester, these messages will be reinforced often over the coming weeks and months.
Let’s work together to keep each other safe. Please know of our profound gratitude for all that you are doing as we prepare to reopen campus and for your dedication to our shared mission. We ask for God’s continued blessing on you and your loved ones.
Return to Campus Orientation Program
In Notre Dame,
Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C.
President
Marie Lynn Miranda
Provost
Shannon Cullinan
Executive Vice President
Good afternoon,
Thank you for your patience as the University developed appropriate policies and procedures related to student employment for the 2020-21 academic year.
Notre Dame undergraduate and graduate students will be allowed to work on campus if the hiring department has a need and the funding in its budget to support this work. Department originators should speak with their business managers for additional guidance on funding availability before entering a job in the Student Jobs Hiring Tool.
Departments with student employment funding, that have established student employment positions that may not be offered due to COVID-19 restrictions (e.g., tour guides), may create replacement positions to support other needed work if applicable.
Hiring managers are strongly encouraged to post open jobs through the Office of Student Employment via the Student JOBboard Posting Submission Form. However, departments may rehire their past student employees without posting these positions.
Due to health and safety concerns, Federal Work-Study community service and Notre Dame Community Employment (Off-Campus) jobs will not be posted on the JOBboard for the fall semester 2020. This includes positions previously posted by Notre Dame faculty, staff and graduate students (e.g., babysitting, nanny positions, and yard work).
Based on University guidance, the majority of students will not return to campus prior to August 1, 2020. The first official day for on-campus student employment for the academic year will be August 6, 2020. All student employees will be required to meet all University and departmental health protocols regarding COVID-19, including the use of personal protective equipment (PPE) and physical distancing. The Student Jobs Hiring Tool will open on July 15th so departments will have time to enter this information prior to the August timeframe.
We hope this information is helpful as you prepare to enter your academic year student jobs. Please refer to our FAQs on the Student Employment website for more information.
If you have any questions that have not been addressed in this communication, please contact the Office of Student Employment at stdempl@nd.edu.
Sincerely,
Student Employment
Please join me in congratulating Devon Aragona on her marriage to Marcus Hahler on June 27, 2020. The two were married at St. Pius X Church in Granger, IN and were joined by their closest loved ones.
Cheers to the happy couple!
-Brandon Tabor
Many NetID accounts were disabled last night and the affected users can not login to email or anything else requiring authentication. OIT is currently working with the vendor to resolve the issue. If users need immediate access, the OIT helpdesk (631-8111) can manually reactivate them with a password reset.
Colleagues,
Please join me in prayer for Brandon Tabor and his family following the loss of his stepdad, John Michael Lawson. Visitation and a Military Service will take place this Saturday, July 11, at Palmer Funeral Home in Mishawaka. Obituary and details can be found here: https://www.palmerfuneralhomes.com/obituary/John-Lawson
Thank you,
Brian Diss
The eduroam certificate will expire at the end of this year. To reduce impact during the academic year, the OIT will update this certificate on Mon. July 13 at 5:30 p.m.
To ensure you can connect to the campus WiFi network, run the eduroam setup utility on all your wireless devices as soon as possible. This will configure your devices for the new certificate. You can do this from any location.
Many IT services are not accessible when connected to ND-Guest, including Banner, Remote Apps, CorpFS, GLez, PeopleEZ, Business Objects, and others. Details on how to run the eduroam setup utility are available in this knowledge article.
***Please note: After running the utility you will get a message saying configuration succeeded. Configured Network is however not in range. Click “continue” then click “done”. Do not click “retry”