Human Resources

Summer Greetings to LU Faculty and Staff!

We have had a weekend event cancel here – so there are open rooms in the lodge Friday, August 2nd and Saturday, August 3rd. Below and attached are the details. Check it out. If the timing works for you to come stay with us – email Alex today!!   

Faculty/Staff Visit Details

• Check in will be after 5pm on Friday, August 2. 
• All guest rooms will be ready to go by 5:00pm on Friday. Doors will be propped and keys will be in the rooms. There will be a copy of the room chart and the floor plan on the registration table at the main entrance. Please find your room on the floor plan and make yourself at home!
• Rooms will be set up Student Program Style. Which means linens will be in the rooms – but beds will not be made
• No meals will be served and the commercial kitchen will not available for personal use
• However the catering kitchen with ice machine and refrigerator will be available. The catering kitchen is located off of Vail Hall across from the elevator.
• As for meals – please plan on sampling local fare, having picnics, using the catering kitchen for easy prep meals, etc. As mentioned, there is an ice machine in the catering kitchen – so you could keep a cooler in your car and picnic on the grounds or while out and about exploring the county! J
• If you do plan on eating here – please bring disposable dinnerware as the commercial dishwasher will NOT available and there will not be any staff to clean up after you.
• There are also small refrigerators located throughout the building – one each in the Dining Room, Lakeside and North. Additionally there is a full size refrigerator in the Mud Room. The Mud Room is located next to Lakeside
• There will not be staff on hand to clean up over the weekend – so please plan on being self-sufficient while here!
• Check out is at 10am on Sunday. We’ll be doing the traditional Lawrence ‘leave it as you found it’ gig. Your room will have a cleaning caddy and instructions under the bathroom sink. Please be sure to clean your room for the next guest!
• Rooms will be $70/night/room. There will be an envelope in your room with the amount due on it. Please leave a check or cash in the envelope on the desk in your room and the staff will pick it up Sunday after your departure.

We’re taking reservations on a first come first served basis. Please email Alex if interested.

In the recent Common Council vote, the revised smoke-free indoor air ordinance now prohibits the use of vaping and all forms of e-cigarettes.

Lawrence University maintains a smoke-free policy within the employee handbook. This policy had been updated to prohibit the use of vaping and all forms of e-cigarettes to maintain a clean air workplace in the comfort of all individuals.

If you would like to review the policy, it can be found here .

Effective July 1, 2019, the following will be added to the Lawrence University Travel and Business Expense Policy. 

LU recognizes that use of a per diem may be preferable in exceptional circumstances. The use of a per diem could be both an exception to the requirement of receipts and, potentially, to the daily maximum meal allowance. When authorized, per diem rates can be provided to cover lodging, meals and incidental expenses, or meals and incidental expenses only. 

In these circumstances, the per diem use must be authorized in writing and in advance by the Provost or a cabinet member and by the Controller.  When proposing a per diem for travel expenses, the requestor must include an attachment provided by Financial Services that outlines the following:

• a justification for the use of a per diem;
• the basis for determining the proposed per diem rate that will not exceed the federal per diem rate for the location of travel
• the specific days to be worked away from home;
• the location of where the services will be performed;
• the business purpose of the travel, and,
• if applicable, a sponsoring agency’s authorization to use a per diem.

With our FISCAL YEAR END JUNE 30, 2019, now in the rear-view mirror, 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 06/30/19and have them to the Financial Services office by Friday, July 12^th. Any invoice received in our office after July 12^th will be entered into the 2019-20 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 2018-19 fiscal year, but have not received it by the deadline, please contact Financial Services to work out a solution.

• Unless there has been a consistent alternate posting method for a routine vendor invoice that Financial Services is aware of, 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, 2019 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, 2019 but was for services provided prior to June 30^th, that invoice will be posted back to the 2018-19 fiscal year.  Purchases or services that are to be reflected as June 30, 2019 expenses need to be purchased and received by June 30, 2019. 
  • Purchases WILL be considered made/paid by June 30, 2019 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, 2019.
  • LU has to be in receipt of the item purchased by June 30, 2019 to be considered a valid expense to hit the books as of June 30, 2019.

• It is NOT necessary that the invoice be in hand by June 30, 2019; however, Financial Services needs to be made aware that the expense is to be dated for fiscal year June 30, 2019 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.

Effective July 1, 2019, the following will be added to the Lawrence University Travel and Business Expense Policy. 

LU recognizes that use of a per diem may be preferable in exceptional circumstances. The use of a per diem could be both an exception to the requirement of receipts and, potentially, to the daily maximum meal allowance. When authorized, per diem rates can be provided to cover lodging, meals and incidental expenses, or meals and incidental expenses only. 

In these circumstances, the per diem use must be authorized in writing and in advance by the Provost or a cabinet member and by the Controller.  When proposing a per diem for travel expenses, the requestor must include an attachment provided by Financial Services that outlines the following:

• a justification for the use of a per diem;
• the basis for determining the proposed per diem rate that will not exceed the federal per diem rate for the location of travel
• the specific days to be worked away from home;
• the location of where the services will be performed;
• the business purpose of the travel, and,
• if applicable, a sponsoring agency’s authorization to use a per diem.

As we approach FISCAL YEAR END JUNE 30, 2019, 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 06/30/19 and have them to the Financial Services office by Friday, July 12^th. Any invoice received in our office after July 12^th will be entered into the 2019-20 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 2018-19 fiscal year, but have not received it by the deadline, please contact Financial Services to work out a solution.

• Unless there has been a consistent alternate posting method for a routine vendor invoice that Financial Services is aware of, 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, 2019 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, 2019 but was for services provided prior to June 30^th, that invoice will be posted back to the 2018-19 fiscal year.  Purchases or services that are to be reflected as June 30, 2019 expenses need to be purchased and received by June 30, 2019. 
  • Purchases WILL be considered made/paid by June 30, 2019 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, 2019.
  • LU has to be in receipt of the item purchased by June 30, 2019 to be considered a valid expense to hit the books as of June 30, 2019.

• It is NOT necessary that the invoice be in hand by June 30, 2019; however, Financial Services needs to be made aware that the expense is to be dated for fiscal year June 30, 2019 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.

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

Kristen Greiner – Assistant Director of Campus Services, Conferences & Events (Warch Campus Center)

Julian Cohen – Summer Maintenance Assistant (Facility Services)

Milly Figueroa – Summer Custodial Assistant (Custodial)

Jacob Grewe – Campus Safety Officer (Office of Campus Safety)

Sara Jacques – Custodian (Custodial)

Frances Marshall – Campus Safety Officer ( Office of Campus Safety)

Christina Schrage – Summer Conference Assistant (Warch Campus Center)

Caroline Swords – Research Associate (Psychology)

Trey Tennessen – Fire Safety Assistant (Office of Campus Safety)

We would like to invite those who attended the Collaborative to complete an evaluation.

Please visit the Collaborative webpage to find the evaluation form. We greatly appreciate your reflections as well as your input on future Learning at Lawrence programming.

Materials and presentations are available on the Learning @ Lawrence webpage.

Thank you to everyone who attended the Learning @ Lawrence Collaborative! We hope you enjoyed the sessions and were able to gather some key takeaways from these discussions. Sincere appreciation to all the presenters; your support made this event possible.

If you would like to complete an evaluation, please visit the Collaborative webpage to find the evaluation form. We greatly appreciate your reflections on this year’s event as well as your input on future Learning at Lawrence programming.

In the coming weeks, materials and presentations will be available on the Learning @ Lawrence webpage.

As we approach FISCAL YEAR END JUNE 30, 2019, 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 06/30/19and have them to the Financial Services office by Friday, July 12^th. Any invoice received in our office after July 12^th will be entered into the 2019-20 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 2018-19 fiscal year, but have not received it by the deadline, please contact Financial Services to work out a solution.

• Unless there has been a consistent alternate posting method for a routine vendor invoice that Financial Services is aware of, 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, 2019 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, 2019 but was for services provided prior to June 30^th, that invoice will be posted back to the 2018-19 fiscal year.  Purchases or services that are to be reflected as June 30, 2019 expenses need to be purchased and received by June 30, 2019. 
  • Purchases WILL be considered made/paid by June 30, 2019 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, 2019.
  • LU has to be in receipt of the item purchased by June 30, 2019 to be considered a valid expense to hit the books as of June 30, 2019.

• It is NOT necessary that the invoice be in hand by June 30, 2019; however, Financial Services needs to be made aware that the expense is to be dated for fiscal year June 30, 2019 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.