The Sixth Edition of HR Connections is now available to view online! https://www.ithaca.edu/hr/documents/connections/hr_connections_sp10/
IN THIS ISSUE:
STRESS!
Stress is inevitable and we all have to live with it. Fortunately, there are easy ways to stop stress before it causes harm to your body, mind and spirit. The following are some proactive steps to make stress work for you by controlling your body’s response.
The Robert S. Colbert Wellness Clinic - GET HEALTHY NOW!
The Wellness Clinic, located in Room 302 of the Center for Health Sciences building, is OPEN and ready to help you further your healthy lifestyle goals!
IC Benefits Fair Wellness Update
Remember going on a SAFARI this past November and prowling through the amazing array of benefits providers and community organizations? If you completed your passport game, it navigated you directly to the Work/Life vendor table. We asked for your input on “What Does Wellness Mean To You?” View the top 10 “activities” you told us support your wellness!
Work/Life Integration
Work/Life Lines (monthly tips via Intercom) and Lunch and Learns (monthly educational workshops) connect you to hot topics each month which bring awareness or provide support to you around the integration of work and life. These monthly tips will offer healthy ways to help integrate your work and life by providing information through reminders, inspiration, awareness, resources and more!
Flexible Spending Account Deadline
If you made pre-tax payroll contributions to the Health Care FSA and/or the Dependent Care FSA during 2009, you have until March 31, 2010 to submit eligible expenses incurred from January 1, 2009 through December 31, 2009.
Tuition Remission
We remind you to please be aware of deadlines when submitting forms to the Office of Human Resources to receive Tuition Remission and Cash Award benefits.
TIAA-CREF Individual Client Services
Alicia Skaly, our TIAA-CREF Individual Client Services Consultant, comes to campus twice a month to provide personalized financial advice and planning services to help you in pursuing your retirement goals.
BeneFits your Life – SPOTLIGHT ON BENEFITS!
Beginning with this issue, each newsletter will highlight one of IC’s benefits, respond to your questions, or share success stories from your colleagues. This semester’s spotlight is on BalanceWorks, your Employee Assistance Program through eni.
Wellness Resources @ IC’s Doorsteps
- Center for Health Promotion - Wellness Wednesdays! Eat your lunch while improving your health at the Center for Health Promotion's "Wellness Wednesdays" series. All programs will be held from noon-12:50 pm in the Cayuga Lake Room of the Campus Center.
- Library – Find It Here! Did you know that library resources are available to all employees with IC email accounts? Check out the library for ebooks, dvds, current fiction, and children's literature (family reading) collections.
- Recreational Sports – Outdoor Recreation – Get Outside! Looking for somewhere new to explore? Recreational Sports has a number of trails and outdoor resources in a handy list!
- Wellness Clinic – IC FIT KIDS! Does your child or children have fitness goals or could benefit from some additional indoor exercise in a fun, supportive and exciting environment? The Wellness Clinic may be the solution! Consider the IC FIT KIDS! Program!
Affinity Groups
Affinity Groups provide a unique opportunity for Ithaca College staff and faculty to support one another by offering resources specifically set up to meet their needs and address their common interests.
Ithaca Community Cultural Events
- In commemoration of Black History Month, The History Center and Southside Community Center invite you to a special History Café celebrating the history of Ithaca’s Southside. “Passing It On: The Southside Story” (18 minutes) February 25, 2010.
- In celebration of Black History month, “The African Diaspora's Dance” will consider African diasporic dance throughout the Americas. Presented by Sabia McCoy Torres on February 26, 2010
- Introducing the CULTURA! Storyteller Series! The Tompkins County Public Library, Cornell University Latin American Studies Program and the Latino Civic Association of Tompkins County are proud to announce the CULTURA! Storyteller Series. The program, directed by Carolina Osorio Gil, features a guest Storyteller representing a different Latin American country each time, who will share a historic, folkloric, or personal tale from that country, as well as an artistic activity that will relate to the story.
- The Tompkins County Public Library will host Kenneth A. McClane for a reading and discussion of his latest book, Color: Essays on Race, Family and History. February 27, 2010
- Sister/Friends Luncheon, an event celebrating sisterhood during Women's History Month, will take place Thursday, March 18, 2010, in Ithaca College’s Emerson Suites. The guest speaker is Amy Dickinson, advice columnist of "Ask Amy."
Administrative Professionals Breakfast Celebration
The Administrative Professionals Working Group (APWG) invites all Administrative Professionals to attend the annual Administrative Professionals Breakfast Celebration on Wednesday, April 21, 2010 from 8:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
Supervisory Academy
We are pleased to announce the successful graduation of Ithaca College’s second Supervisory Academy class! The next Supervisory Academy session: June 7 – 11, 2010.
Direct Deposit for Students
Encourage your student employees to sign up for direct deposit! Direct deposit provides a convenient, secure, and easy way to access the earnings from their on-campus job. Individuals who choose direct deposit have their money deposited in their personal bank account and have access to the funds the morning of pay date.
National Student Employment Week
This spring we will once again honor our student employees and their supervisors during National Student Employment Week. We hope that on April 13, between 11:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m., supervisors will take time to stop by Clark Lounge in the Campus Center and enjoy some time to kick back and relax with your student employee!
Employee Recognition Celebration
Our annual Recognition Celebration is for Thursday, April 22, 2010, at noon, in the Emerson Suites. Employees being honored at this year’s event have had an anniversary between June 1, 2009 and May 31, 2010.
PAID TIME AWAY
The Office of Human Resources would like to prepare the campus community to move to the on-line recording of our vacation, personal, and sick time through the Oracle Time and Labor system. All non-unionized staff and administration will be able to record our Paid Time Away (PTA) – vacation, personal, and sick time on-line beginning June 1, 2010.
The Chronicle’s: “Great Colleges to Work For”
Ithaca College has registered to participate in The Great Colleges to Work For Survey process that will take place in March and April of 2010. Now in its third year, the Great Colleges program has quickly become the premiere recognition program in higher education. Loosely based on the popular Fortune magazine list, “100 Best Companies to Work For”, Great Colleges is designed to recognize institutions that are great places to work and to compile detailed benchmarking data about industry trends. Instead of ranking institutions in one big list like Fortune does, the Great Colleges program recognizes groups of colleges for specific best practices and policies, such as tenure clarity, collaborative governance, work/life balance and compensation and benefits.
Copies of the newsletter will be distributed to benefits eligible employees in the coming week.
Enjoy!
