When I started work here last month, he was so helpful and patient setting up my computer and teaching me the 'system' here. This week he stopped by to check in, and upon discovering that my monitor stand was just a bit too high, came back with another option and...
Kathy W Bryant
Round of Applause: Lydia Mayer
Lydia is always friendly and smiling, and willing to offer a helping hand. She has been instrumental in our team becoming more interconnected by creating different formats for our monthly meetings and finding an enjoyable location for our in-person meeting this past...
Round of Applause: Lydia Mayer
The Academic Affairs Division is spread among two buildings and three floors--not conducive to communication and just general get-to-know-each-otherness. Lydia orchestrates communal socials within our group and others, whom we often only "see" electronically or...
Paid Parental Leave Approved
The Board of Governors approved the Paid Parental Leave plan during their meeting today. This program will provide eight weeks of fully paid parental leave to eligible employees who have given birth to a child, and four weeks of paid leave for non-birth parents in...
Date-Sensitive Draft Changes to IRIT Education and Experience Requirements
The IRIT IT Professional classifications have now been in place for a year. Based on campus feedback during this period, we are proposing a change to education and experience requirements for some classifications requiring higher levels of initial experience. IT...
Follow-up re: Status of Freeze on Selected Salary Actions and Bonus Leave
In follow-up to our phone call today, I wanted to offer further updates on two items. With re. to the currently enacted freeze on selected salary increase actions: The freeze has been lifted for the State “agencies.” It is not at all clear that this lifting of the...
System Office Quarterly Report: Q1 FY 19-20
The template for Q1 salary increase reporting is attached to this email. There are very few changes, with the following exceptions: Do not use the EHRA ARP reporting code at this point. We will expect to see all ARP increases reported on the Q2 report, once rules for...
Update on Annual Raise Process Status
As some of you may have heard through media coverage, the General Assembly has passed bills that permit salary increases to proceed for most of State Government, which have now been signed by the Governor. I understand that the Office of State Human Resources (OSHR)...
Urgent: Adverse Weather Reminders
Given the potential of adverse weather this coming week, I wanted to share a few brief reminders regarding the State’s and the University’s adverse weather protocols. Our UNC System Adverse Weather and Emergency Events Policy, which was last updated as of January 1,...
Women’s Equality Day
Please see the message below and attached regarding Women’s Equality Day. Governor Cooper has proclaimed August 26, 2019 as Women’s Equality Day. Women's Equality Day commemorates the passage of the 19th amendment to the U.S. Constitution granting women the right to...