Staff

What is a PHA?

The Personal Health Assessment is a tool that highlights how our lifestyle choices directly impact overall health. Two scores are provided:

• Your Lifestyle Rating is based on your self-reported daily habits related to nutrition, physical activity, alcohol consumption, stress and depression, and tobacco use.
• Your Biometric Score is based on tobacco use, Body Mass Index (BMI), blood pressure, cholesterol levels, and blood sugar.

The Personal Health Assessment Report provides personalized feedback, tips to improve your lifestyle habits, and resources for more information.

Who is eligible to participate?

All staff and faculty are welcomed and encouraged to participate in the PHA process.  Participation is also encouraged for the following individuals covered under the Lawrence University medical plan: spouses/domestic partners of employees, retirees and spouses/domestic partners of retirees.

Note for Medical Plan Participants

Participation by employees, retirees covered under the medical plan, and spouses/domestic partners covered under the medical plan will provide the discounts to the medical plan premium.  All participants must complete both the biometric screening and the lifestyle questionnaire to receive the premium discount. The questionnaire can be completed 5 days after your biometric screening appointment.  Discounts are provided based upon participation and are not scoring or result based.

How do I sign up?

The PHA schedule books quickly.  To ensure you receive your preferred appointment time, do not delay in scheduling your appointment, click here to sign up:  https://www.thedacare.org/pha.

What is the PHA schedule?

The PHA schedule is as follows:

Please contact your HR Representative if you have any questions regarding the PHA process including scheduling your assessment.

Thank you,

Human Resources

The final version of the Handbook is now available. The acknowledgement process started on Monday through Voyager.

As a reminder, the acknowledgement form will automatically appear after logging into Voyager. The form does have a bypass option allowing you to ignore the form and continue to have access to Voyager. To bypass the form simply click the “Bypass” button.

The bypass option is only be available for a limited time before requiring staff and faulty members to acknowledge the handbook in order to access Voyager. We encourage all to utilize this time to review the Handbook and become familiar with the revisions.

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! 

Maureen ChavezKruger – Visiting Assistant Professor of Theatre Arts (Theatre Arts)
John LaPrairie – Bon Appetit: Baker (Contracted Dining Services)
Skylar Liebzeit – Assistant Football Coach (Athletics)
Angi Long – Associate Registrar (Registrar’s Office)
Madeline Marquardt – Financial Aid Counselor (Financial Aid Office)
Joanna Morey – Arioso Girl Choir Manager (Academy of Music)
John O’Neill – Interim Music Librarian (Conservatory of Music)
Lynda Marie Pietruszka – Bjorklunden Staff Assistant (Bjorklunden)
Trey Rosenkranz – Assistant Women’s Soccer Coach (Athletics)
Daniel Rothbauer – Assistant Football Coach (Athletics)
Max Westphal – Assistant Football Coach (Athletics)
Matt Wilfuer – Assistant Athletic Trainer (Athletics)
Terra Winston – Associate Dean for Spiritual and Religious Life (Spiritual Religious Life)

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

Becky Barthelmess – Associate Registrar (Registrar’s Office)
Dan Erickson – Financial Aid Counselor (Financial Aid Office)
Andrew McSorley- Reference and Digital Liberal Arts Librarian and Assistant Professor (Library and Media Center)

Starting Monday, August 27th the final version of the Handbook will be available. The acknowledgement process will also begin on Monday. The process will be conducted through Voyager to ensure that everyone had to opportunity to review the revised Handbook.

After logging into Voyager, the acknowledgement form will automatically appear. The form will have a bypass option allowing you to ignore the form for the time being and continue to have access to Voyager. To bypass the form simply click the “Bypass” button.

The bypass option will only be available for a limited time before requiring staff and faulty members to acknowledge the handbook in order to access Voyager. We encourage all to utilize this time to review the Handbook and become familiar with the revisions.