Blia Vang

Assistant Director of Campus Life for Housing & Residential Living

Film Studies Program Support CoordinatorAssistant Professor of German

Waseda Program Assistant

Assistant Professor of Theatre Arts

Assistant Professor of Statistics

Assistant Football Coach – Defensive Coordinator (full-time)

Assistant Vice President of Communication

Animal and Psychology Lab Technician

Financial Aid Counselor

Assistant Football Coach

Schmidt Fellow/Instructor of Chinese

Assistant Women s Basketball Coach

Bjorklunden Staff Assistant & Weekend Student Program Manager

Assistant Director of Admissions – Diversity, Inclusion, & Access Coordinator

Custodian

Instructional Designer

Please note the following planned power outages on campus that are scheduled in the coming weeks:

• Thursday, July 19: 11:00pm –  Saturday, July 21 at 7:00am. This will impact Music Drama, Shattuck, Chapel and Plantz.
• Thursday, August 2: 4:30am – Saturday, August 4 at midnight. This will impact the Quads, Sage, Trevor, and the Wellness Center.
• Monday, August 6: 2:30pm – Tuesday, August 7 at 7:00am.  This will impact the entire campus.
  • As a result of this outage, campus will close at 2:00pm on Monday, August 6.
  • Employees will be paid for their full regularly scheduled hours that day; hours should be recorded as standard hours worked.
    • For example, if your regular eight hour shift ends at 5:00pm, you will be paid for the hours not worked between 2:00pm and 5:00pm.

Please contact Facilities if you have questions or concerns around these outages.

This is a friendly reminder that Lawrence University is tax exempt from sales tax on goods and services purchased in Wisconsin.  Last week Financial Services obtained over $350 in refunds for sales tax that should not have been paid.  Please try to keep our exemption in mind when making purchases on behalf of Lawrence University during our new fiscal year 2018-2019.   Vendors should not need anything more than the Wisconsin tax exempt form that can be found on the Financial Services website.  The link is below.

http://www.lawrence.edu/info/offices/financial_services/accounts_payable/accounts_payable_forms.

Other states where LU maintains sales tax exemptions include:

 Florida

 Illinois (does not apply to lodging)

 Massachusetts (does not apply to meals and/or lodging)

 Minnesota (does not apply to meals and/or lodging)

 New York

 Colorado

Please contact Jill Senso, X6544 to obtain the sales tax form that vendors in these states will need.

Thank you in advance for your cooperation!

The following colleagues have been hired or rehired within the last couple of weeks. If you see them on campus, please welcome them to Lawrence! 

• Rosie Bauer – Swim Camp Counselor (Athletics)
• Hannah Birch –  Assessment Coordinator (Psychology)
• Eryn Blagg – Swim Camp Counselor (Athletics)
• Anthony Cardella – Piano Teaching Intern (Academy of Music)
• Elizabeth Ceranski – Summer Painter (Facility Services)
• Brianna Hauge – Assistant Women’s Basketball Coach (Athletics)
• Lindsay Holsen – Summer Research Assistant (Spanish)
• Ashley Layton –  Instructor (Off ­- Campus Programs)
• Zachary Lee – Materials Management Assistant (Office of Campus
  Safety)
• Gavin Lefeber – Summer Materials Management Assistant (Office of Campus Safety)
• Ethan Paladini – Summer Technology Intern (Information Technology Services)
• Timothy Platt – Summer Maintenance Assistant (Facility Services)
• Isaac Portoghese – Materials Management Assistant (Facility Services)
• Jackson Schipper – Summer Lifeguard (Athletics)
• Ana Skolaski – Facilities Painter (Facility Services)
• Rachel Taber –  Summer Bjorklunden Staff Assistant (Bjorklunden)
• Laura Wierschke – Assistant Women’s Basketball Coach
• Emily Wilson – Executive Assistant (Office of Diversity and
  Inclusion)
• Jessica Wilson – Temporary Custodian (Custodial)
• Andrew Woodbury – Summer Electrical Assistant (Facility Services)

The following colleagues have recently moved to a new position within Lawrence. Please take the time to congratulate them on their new position! 

• Susan Chadwick – Associate Registrar (Registrar’s Office)

Animal and Psychology Lab Technician

Assistant Director of Admissions – Diversity, Inclusion, & Access Coordinator

Assistant Football Coach

Assistant Football Coach – Defensive Coordinator (full-time)

Assistant Professor of Statistics

Assistant Professor of Theatre Arts

Assistant Vice President of Communication

Assistant Women s Basketball Coach

Bjorklunden Staff Assistant & Weekend Student Program Manager

Campus Safety Officer

Custodian

Financial Aid Counselor

Instructional Designer

Schmidt Fellow/Instructor of Chinese

Waseda Program Assistant

Please see the below message from Dan Meyer, Director of Facility Services:

After 12 years at Lawrence, two as the Energy Engineer and ten as the Director of Facilities Services, I am planning to reduce my hours to half time in January 2019 and retire fully around July 2019.  I will be assisting in the transition to a new director and will then oversee energy initiatives during the next 12 months.

Thank you for all of the support and encouragement to me and the Facility Services staff throughout the past 12 years.  The entire Facility Services team and I take great pride in our work and our ability to make improvements and keep things running on a daily basis.

Thanks,

Dan

Campus Safety Officer

Assistant Vice President of Communication

Animal and Psychology Lab Technician

Financial Aid Counselor

Conservatory Admissions Fellow

Assistant Football Coach

Schmidt Fellow/Instructor of Chinese

Assistant Women s Basketball Coach

Prospect Researcher

Administrative Assistant to Annual Giving

Bjorklunden Staff Assistant & Weekend Student Program Manager

Assistant Director of Admissions – Diversity, Inclusion, & Access Coordinator

Custodian

Visiting Assistant Professor of Physics

Director of Human Resources

Instructional Designer

All HR forms can now be found in one convenient location in the Forms Library on the Human Resources webpage. Here you will find forms relating to Benefits, Payroll, Safety & Injury, Reporting, FMLA, Employee Information Changes, etc. Please contact HR if you need any assistance in finding a form that is not located in the Forms Library.

As we approach FISCAL YEAR END JUNE 30, 2018, please be reminded of the following :

• In order to allow the Financial Services office to prepare for Lawrence University’s annual audit, we ask that you approve invoices for the fiscal year ending 06/30/18 and have them to the Financial Services office by Friday, July 13^th. Any invoice received in our office after July 13^th will be entered into the 2018-19 fiscal year regardless of the date on the invoice or the date of the delivery of the product or service. If you are expecting an invoice that needs to be posted to the 2017-18 fiscal year, but have not received it by the deadline, please contact Financial Services to work out a solution.

• Invoices will be entered in the fiscal period for which the delivery of the product or service relates. For example, if an invoices is dated June 25^th, 2018 but is for a services that will be provided after July 1^st, the invoice will go to the next fiscal year. Conversely, if the invoice has a date of July 5^th, 2018 but was for services provided prior to June 30^th, that invoice will be posted back to the 2017-18 fiscal year.  Purchases or services that are to be reflected as June 30, 2018 expenses need to be purchased and received by June 30, 2018.
  • Purchases WILL be considered made/paid by June 30, 2018 if they are purchased on an LU purchasing credit card, regardless of whether the item/service has been received by June 30

• Down payments will not be considered an expense as of June 30, 2018.
  • LU has to be in receipt of the item purchased by June 30, 2018 to be considered a valid expense to hit the books as of June 30, 2018.

• It is NOT necessary that the invoice be in hand by June 30, 2018; however, Financial Services needs to be made aware that the expense is to be dated for fiscal year June 30, 2018 if it will not be clear on the invoice when the invoice is received after fiscal year end.

• If you have a specific invoice for which you would like to make an exception, please contact Brandie Jewett X6542 or Amy Price X7164 with any questions.