Internal Communications
Dr. Kimberly Barrett, Vice President of Diversity & Inclusion is hosting open office hours. The first session of open office hours for Fall Term is being held on October 15, 2018. Drop by Sampson House, 2nd floor and share ideas, concerns, comments, etc. Appointments are not required, people will be accommodated on a first come-first serve basis.
Date & Time: October 25th, 8:30 – 9:30 AM
Location: Nathan-Marsh Pusey Room, 3rd Floor Warch Campus Center
Women faculty and staff are invited to come together for conversation and coffee, to create a network of support and discuss strategies to thrive on campus as the university continues to aspire to achieve gender equity.
Please RSVP to div-Inclusion@lawrence.edu
Group Session
Join John Conway from Advanced Capital Group on the following dates to learn more on investment options in the WAICU/Transamerica Multiple Employer Plan (MEP). This session will also explore new plan features which were effective on June 1, 2018. No RSVP Required
Sessions time and dates:
Monday, October 15th, Warch Campus Center Cinema from 11:00am – 12:00pm
Monday, October 15th, Warch Campus Center Cinema from 1:00pm – 2:00
1:1 Meetings
A representative from Transamerica will be on campus to meet one – on – one on Monday, October 15th from 8:30am – 5:00pm. The representative is available to answer any questions regarding the WAICU Retirement Readiness Plan or assist with the rollover of retirement plan from prior employer. Appointments will be held in the Alice Chapman Hall Room 140. Appointments must be scheduled in advance.
Learning at Lawrence is launching their first Cross Campus Connections training session of the new academic year, led by Steve Armstrong, Director of Information Technology, on the topic of Password Manager.
Join us Wednesday, October 17th from 10:10am – 10:50am in the Warch Campus Center Cinema to learn from Steve and gain a better understanding of password security and protecting yourself from cyber threats.
Save the date for the upcoming insurance Open Enrollment Benefits Fair in the Warch Campus Center – Somerset Room on Thursday, November 1st, 2018 from 10:00 am – 2:00 pm.
New this year! Due to limited changes to the benefit plans for the 2019 plan year, the Open Enrollment Benefits Fair will take the place of open enrollment meetings. This event will provide an opportunity to meet with the University’s benefit providers, obtain benefit enrollment forms and the updated benefit guide, and talk with members of the Human Resources team about enrollment for the upcoming year.
Benefit providers who will be available to meet with you include:
Additionally, the following University offices will be available to meet with you:
The deadline to submit any open enrollment changes, additions, or drops to Human Resources is Monday, November 19th, 2018 at 4:00 pm.
If you do not wish to make changes to your current benefit elections, you do not need to submit open enrollment forms, with the exception of flexible spending. The flexible spending enrollment form must be completed if you want to participate in health and/or dependent care flexible spending in the 2019 plan year/calendar year.
Unable to attend, but still have questions or need the benefit guide and forms? Contact Human Resources with your request.
We look forward to seeing you at the Open Enrollment Benefits Fair!
James Forman Jr., author of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction for Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America, will deliver a talk that explores the rise of mass incarceration and its disproportionate impact on people of color. The talk will be followed by a signing of his book.
Lecture and Signing with Pulitzer-Winner James Forman, Jr.
Thursday, October 11 at 7:30 p.m.
Wriston Auditorium
The event is free and open to the public and no registration is required.
Forman, a professor at Yale Law School, seeks to understand why many African-American leaders for decades supported a get-tough “war on crime” that so profoundly impacts communities of color. Forman’s work is “an examination of the historical roots of contemporary criminal justice in the U.S., based on vast experience and deep knowledge of the legal system, and its often-devastating consequences for citizens and communities of color.”
This event is sponsored by the Cargill Sustainability Grant, the Mia Paul Poetry Fund, and the Fox Cities Book Festival.
This talk will imagine ways that delight, joy, and love are integral to the ways we care for the land, but also to the ways we care for ourselves and each other as the land.
Ross’s reading will be followed by a book signing.
Ross Gay is the author of three books: Against Which; Bringing the Shovel Down; and Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude, winner of the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award and the 2016 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. Ross is a founding board member of the Bloomington Community Orchard, a non-profit, free-fruit-for-all food justice and joy project. Ross teaches at Indiana University. His new book, The Book of Delights — will be released in Spring 2019.
See upcoming events, celebrations and LU’s community report in the October Staff Monthly: Staff Monthly_October
We invite the Lawrence Community to Wellness Fair 2018 – Gratitude. Centering around the theme of gratitude, our wellness fair offers an opportunity to engage with campus and community partners invested in various aspects of wellness.
Join us on Tuesday, October 9th in Warch (Somerset) from 11am-1pm and 6pm-8pm. In addition to stopping in to visit our wellness partners, the Wellness Fair will be the site of the first campus flu shot clinic of the season (free for staff and a $20 charge for students) and will also provide the opportunity to win a variety of prizes (1-hr massage, 1-hr guided kayak tour, fit bit, prize baskets, and more). We hope to see you there!
