11/14/1974, Delores Fisher
11/1/1999, Caryn Scoville
11/2/2000, Karen Witt
11/19/2001, Deborah Melvin
11/4/2002, Mat Miller
11/3/2003, Barbara Jones
11/30/2004, Shannon Cary
11/1/2006, Matthew Stephen
11/5/2006, Colleen Smith
11/24/2008, Tyler Dwyer
11/22/2010, Ryan Buttrey
Flu Shots and Health Screenings
The University of Missouri Total Rewards invites you to join Healthy for Life, an incentive-based wellness program designed to help you actively manage your health. By completing a personal health assessment and health screening, primary subscribers to the UM Health Care plan will receive $100 in a tax-favored account to use for medical expenses in 2012 Benefit Plan year.
This year, we’re partnering with Cerner Health to provide straightforward tools to help you work toward better health. You can participate in the program now. It’s simple. Here’s how:
Date: Weekdays except Thursday (Healthcare employees only)
Time: 6:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
Location: Staff Health
* APPOINTMENTS ARE ONLY NEEDED FOR NEW HEALTHCARE EMPLOYEES, ALL OTHER HEALTHCARE EMPLOYEES ARE FIRST-COME, FIRST-SERVE
This event is done in conjunction with the annual health screening and is co-sponsored by Staff Health and Healthy for Life
Date: Every Tuesday & Wednesday
Time: 8-11 a.m.
Location: Wellness Resource Center, Room G202
* THIS EVENT IS FOR SCREENINGS ONLY, NO APPOINTMENTS WILL BE TAKEN.
*This event is co-sponsored by the Wellness Resource Center and Healthy for Life
Date: Nov. 7
Time: 8:30 a.m.-12 p.m.
Location: Heinkel Building, Room 200 (Healthy for Life lobby)
* THIS EVENT IS FIRST-COME, FIRST-SERVE, NO SCREENING OR FLU SHOT APPOINTMENTS WILL BE TAKEN.
Date: Nov. 8
Time: 1-4 p.m.
Location: MU Ellis Library
* FLU SHOTS ONLY, NO SCREENINGS
*This event is co-sponsored by MU Student Health and Healthy for Life
Date: Nov. 9
Time: 9-11 a.m.
Location: Center for Family Policy & Research, Room 1400 (Entrance #6)
* SCREENINGS BY APPOINMENT ONLY
*NO APPOINTMENT FOR FLU SHOTS
*This event is co-sponsored by MU Student Health and Healthy for Life
Date: Nov. 9
Time: 1-4 p.m.
Location: Hulston Hall, Room
*SCREENINGS BY APPOINMENT ONLY
*NO APPOINTMENT FOR FLU SHOTS
*This event is co-sponsored by MU Student Health and Healthy for Life
Date: Nov. 10
Time: 1-5 p.m.
Location: Townsend Hall, Room
*SCREENINGS BY APPOINMENT ONLY
*NO APPOINTMENT FOR FLU SHOTS
*This event is co-sponsored by MU Student Health and Healthy for Life
*Smaller screening clinics are available, please check your Cerner Health account for dates/locations.
FREE flu shots will be provided for those 12 years and older enrolled in a UM Health Care plan. To receive the vaccination, bring your health insurance card and a completed Flu Vaccine form. Those not enrolled in a UM Health Care plan can receive a vaccination for $15 cash or check, along with the completed Flu Vaccine form.
To receive the $100 Incentive, complete both the personal health assessment and health screening by April 30, 2012.
I want to learn more about the Healthy for Life program.
Share your Success Story
Do you have wellness success story or know of one that may motivate others to become healthier? Have you stopped smoking, lost weight, or decreased stress in your life? If so, we would love to hear about it! E-mail Melissa Willett with your accomplishments or contact information for the person you are suggesting by give her a call at (573) 884-1397.
Tips for Mindful Eating Blog
‘Tips for Mindful Eating: It’s more than just about food’ is a new blog that offers a weekly post with tips, articles, research, reflections, and opportunities to practice mindful eating and living through the way that you eat, move, work, play and relate to yourself, others, and the world. It grew out of the ten week program entitled “Eat for Life” developed by Dr. Lynn Rossy and Hannah Bush, M.A. offered through the wellness program. Click here to subscribe to weekly posts.
Massage Therapy Services—Faculty/Staff Discounts Available
De-stress this semester through massage therapy. Licensed Massage Therapist Jeff Rioux provides this service in his office at University Hospital (GL-20). He also provides department chair massage in three-hour blocks. To schedule an individual appointment or chair massage, call Healthy for Life at 884-1312.
If you’d like to buy a gift certificate, stop by Medtique Gift Shop in University Hospital, the Healthy for Life office at 205 Heinkel Building on campus, OR drop a check in campus mail to 205 Heinkel Building specifying the length of session you want. Make checks payable to Healthy for Life.
| Faculty and staff receive a discount: | Hours of availability: |
| 30 minutes: $35 | Mondays & Tuesdays: 10 a.m.-7 p.m. |
| 60 minutes: $50 | Wednesdays: 1-7 p.m. |
| 90 minutes: $70 | Thursdays: 11 a.m.-7 p.m. |
Campus Dining Services offers Zoutrition
Zoutrition is an online tool that provides users with nutritional information for 15 of Mizzou’ s restaurants. In addition to providing nutritional information, Zoutrition assists customers in making wise choices to meet their nutritional goals when dining on-campus. To experience Zoutrition, visit dining.missouri.edu and click the Zoutrition logo in the lower right hand corner. This tool helpful to:
o Identify and select well-balanced meals.
o Confirm the nutritional content of their food choices.
o Identify possible allergens and food intolerances.
o Select preferences for specific types of diets such as vegetarian or vegan.
Please help welcome Annelise Freeman, E-Learning Librarian. Annelise began working with the MU Libraries this week, on a six-month contract to explore, with librarians, faculty, and others, ways to improve library services to students having any kind of E-Learning experience. Her organizational home is in Research and Information Services Division, and she will meet regularly with the RAIS Department Heads group. She will be meeting with the MU Libraries’ Web Groups, the Assessment Committee, the Instruction Committee, individual librarians, staff at Mizzou Online, and many others in order to make recommendations regarding the libraries’ E-Learning presence. Annelise is an experienced secondary classroom teacher and curriculum developer, accustomed to using all kinds of computerized tools in her teaching. She also completed her Masters of Science in Information Science degree last May at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. She, her husband and baby boy relocated to Columbia in August. Welcome, Annelise!
A reminder that the Annual Enrollment Change Period for enrollment/changes in benefits effective 2012 will end on November 4, 2011. You are now able to initiate enrollment changes online through UM’s myHR at https://myhr.umsystem.edu. However, if you are not making changes to your current benefit program, no action is required on your part. Coverage will continue into 2012.
Exception: If you currently participate in the Flexible Spending program and/or wish to do so in 2012, you must enroll or re-enroll at this time.
Information on plan changes and costs for 2011 can be found at http://www.umsystem.edu/totalrewards/benefits. Contact Faculty and Staff Benefits at 882-2146 for additional information.
In anticipation of winter, it seems prudent to review MU’s policy on suspending business operations due to inclement weather. As per Policy 1:010, http://bppm.missouri.edu/chapter1/1_010.html, from the Business Policy and Procedure Manual, only the Chancellor (or in the Chancellor’s absence, the Provost) has the authority to cancel classes or close the campus in the event of an emergency. In most circumstances the University will not close and it will maintain its teaching, research and service activities in accordance with established schedules and operational demands even if classes are cancelled. Even when classes are canceled, campus operations typically will not be suspended due to severe weather.
If weather conditions affect an employee’s ability to travel to and from work, the same policy cited above delineates how to account for the time missed. Options include using paid leave and adjusting one’s work schedule during the same week (if possible) with supervisor approval.
Related to this, employees who suffer a slip, trip or fall while on University grounds should report the incident as a potential Workers’ Compensation claim. For employees in branch libraries, ask your department head about the procedures for reporting an injury. For employees in Ellis Library, contact Security at 882-4220. Be sure to inform your supervisor, as well.
If you have questions regarding any of this, please contact Leo at 882-9166 or via e-mail at AgnewL@missouri.edu.
Nominations are being solicited for the fall 2011 Student Excellence Award. The purpose of the award is to recognize those student assistants who are dedicated, creative, and/or industrious. Any student assistant employed in any MU Libraries department is eligible for consideration. The recipient will receive a certificate of appreciation which will be presented to the student in his/her own department.
The nomination deadline is Friday, Nov. 18. The award will be announced before the end of the semester. Please forward nominations to Leo Agnew, 104 Ellis Library. The nomination form can be found at http://mulibraries.missouri.edu/staff/committees/staffdevelopment/development_opportunities/employee_awards/student.htm. In the event of multiple nominations, the ‘extra’ forms will be retained for consideration for the fall 2011 student award.
It has been a while since the award was last given. As such, it seems prudent to list the criteria:
*You will notice the monetary award has been dropped. It is the hope of SDC that student recipients will still find value in being nominated for the award and that supervisors will want to recognize outstanding student assistants via this award.
It has been a while since we have looked at the LIA/LIS level increase request process. Here are three documents which will help us get reacquainted with the process: Level and Competency Statements (Levels and Competency Statements); Level Assessment Form (Level Assessment Form); and Directions for Determining Competency Levels (Directions for Determining Competency Levels).
To access other documents and information associated with the level increase process, go to http://mulibraries.missouri.edu/staff/admin/classification/reclassification.htm.
I’ve received a request to hold info sessions for individuals in LIA/LIS titles plus their supervisors…that sounds like a good idea to me. Look for announcements in future editions of News Notes.
Leo
Web tip of the week, Oct. 24, 2011- Downtown sales tax
http://mulibraries.missouri.edu/muse/index.php/2011/10/26/web-tip-of-the-week-oct-24-2011-downtown-sales-tax/
Web tip of the week, Oct. 31, 2011- financial resources
Congratulations to Billi Heater, our Health Sciences Library Administrative Assistant!
Billi received the September MU Service Champion Award from the campus Staff Advisory Council.
This award recognizes employees “who go above and beyond, who perform their duties day after day with an exceptional work ethic and attitude that makes them stand out”, and “embody the University’s core values: Respect; Responsibility; Discovery; Excellence.”