The State of Colorado has delayed their open enrollment because of delays in setting premium rates for their plans. Due to this fact, University Open Enrollment will be from May 14 - May 28, 2009 rather than April 27 - May 22, 2009. Premiums are still unknown at this time, but will be shared prior to Open Enrollment.
The current Open Enrollment calendar is posted in the employee lounge and is also available electronically at: https://www.cu.edu/pbs/openenrollment/downloads/OE-Calendar.pdf Note that only the enrollment dates have changed, all other information on informational sessions and carrier fairs is accurate.
Dependent Social Security Numbers (SSN) Now Required
A federal mandate administered by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services now requires SSNs for employees and their covered dependents for coordination of benefits. To comply with this mandate, you must provide an SSN for each of your covered dependents in this year's open enrollment. The university and PBS will continue to be diligent in the protection of your personal data.
Auraria Library Annual Award Winners
Congratulations to this year's deserving 2008 faculty award winners!
Excellence in Librarianship - Cynthia Hashert
Researcher/Creative Artist of the Year - Meg Brown-Sica
Service Person of the Year - Gayle Bradbeer
Ergonomic Evaluation Update
First, a sincere thank you to Ellen Nedzel for agreeing to complete the remaining ergonomic evaluations. Evaluations have been completed for everyone who has expressed the desire to have one or is scheduled in the immediate future. If you were waiting to get an evaluation due to moving or changing equipment I ask that you schedule an appointment with Ellen no later than May 1st as any equipment you might need will should be ordered within the next two weeks to meet fiscal year deadlines.
Speaking of the end of the fiscal year, everyone who is in need of a new chair needs to submit that request to Becky Robinson no later Friday, May 1st. If you would like to view available chair models, please follow this link: http://www.coloradoci.com/ then click "seating", "view catalog" and "task". All chairs will be ordered in Companion Navy fabric. If none of the available chairs will work for you due to a special requirement, please contact Becky as soon as possible to discuss alternate options.
Please, contact Marical Farner if you have had an evaluation, but still do not feel that all of your ergonomic needs have been met or if initial work space solutions are not standing the test of time and need to be reconsidered.
Update from the Technology Department:
Last week Niraj was in Microsoft Server training and Doug took some vacation so we had some Bugzilla tickets pile up. Hopefully we will get things under control early this week. Projects we are working on: continuing to set up computers and improve our procedures for doing so, ordering Camtasia for those who need it, installing software for ILL (a big job), working out switch/jack issues in the Special Projects area, and working on a research plan for the Learning Commons, among other things. Niraj will talk to ITS about changing some network set ups, based on knowledge he gained from his class. We are gathering information about all of the applications on our servers so that we can begin the move to virtual servers at ITS. This set up will provide better backup, more up to date hardware and be more economic for the library.
Help! We are having trouble determining what has been purchased and when it was received. We document purchases in the department but we need some cooperation. When anything technology related arrives please sent it to 256 first so that we can document receiving it and make sure we get the licensing information, informational materials, etc. We also need to see if anything is missing. I have put a procedure in writing on the on the wiki here. Please feel free to comment, give us suggestions, etc.
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