Thank You to all who so generously donated to the Holiday Food Drive for the Food Bank and Second Chance. Kathy Peters was the raffle winner of a $25 gift card to the University Book Store.
Our totals are as follows:
Food Bank: 90 pounds of food; $711.00 in cash donations.
Second Chance: 37.5 pounds of food; $40.00 in cash donations.
This was a very successful Food Drive.
Thank you also to Colleen Smith for collecting items in my absence.
–Sue Barnes, MULSA Community Service Chair
Stop by 104 Ellis to get one! Branches can contact me, and I will send them through campus mail.
–Shannon
You may access spring hours here. Please contact me if you would like the Admin office to make copies for your department. –Shannon
Two employees will be terminating with MU Libraries.
Brooke Shannon last day 12/19/2012
Length of service: 0 years, 9 mos., 07 days
Start date: 03/12/2012
Last day worked: 12/19/2012
Department: Circulation
Title: Library Information Assistant
Adam Banning last day is 01/01/2013
Length of service: 12 years, 8 mos.
Start date: 05/15/2000
Last day worked: 01/01/2013
Department: LTS
Title: User Support Analyst-Expert
Earn Your $100 Wellness Incentive
As part of your 2013 benefits, you are eligible for a wellness incentive. Healthy for Life is an incentive-based wellness program designed to help you earn your incentive and actively manage your health. By completing a personal health assessment, health screening, and 240 minutes of physical activity, primary subscribers to the UM health plans will receive $100 in a tax-favored account to use for medical expenses in 2013 Benefit Plan year.
Earn $100 in 3 Easy Steps:
Ready to get started?
2013 Screening Schedule:
Spring Wellness Classes
Learn to eat for health and enjoyment
Discover the benefits of this innovative approach to weight management through Healthy for Life’s Eat for Life course. This 10-week program uses mind-body practices (meditations and yoga), the principles of mindful and intuitive eating, skills training, and group support to guide you in making lifestyle changes that will help you create a healthier relationship to your food, mind, and body. If you have a history of chronic dieting, have rigid “healthy” rules about eating, or find yourself eating when you’re stressed, bored, or unhappy, this may be the program for you.
· In Person Orientation: Wednesday, Jan. 23 (12-1 p.m.)
· In Person Class: Wednesdays, Jan. 30-Apr. 17, no class on Feb. 8 or Mar. 27 (12–1pm)
· Online Orientation: week of Jan. 18
· Online Class: week of Jan. 25-Apr. 5 (except spring break)
· Online Registration Deadline: Monday, Jan. 14
· Cost: $50 for faculty, staff and family members ($25 refunded with full participation); $180 for community members
Watch informational videos, complete your registration form and email RossyL@umsystem.edu to enroll.
Lower your stress in just 8 weeks
Helping employees manage stress effectively is a key goal of Healthy for Life. The wellness program offers eight-week Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction classes at minimal cost to benefit-eligible employees looking to manage today’s busy lifestyles in a healthy way. This is an 8–week class teaching meditation, yoga and other mind-body techniques for managing stress. There is a $40 registration fee, $20 reimbursement if you attend seven of the eight classes.
· Orientation: Wednesday, Jan. 16, from 5:30–6:30 p.m.
· Classes: Wednesdays (Jan. 23-Mar. 20), from 5:3 –7:30 p.m.
· Full Day Retreat: Saturday, March 9, 9 a.m.–4 p.m.
Get moving with physical activity classes
Chair Massage 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. |
Million Step Pedometer Program
This on-going program is designed for the University of Missouri’s faculty and staff to get moving through counting their steps. For $15, participants will receive a pedometer and a log book. Once you reach 1 million steps, you get to keep the pedometer and you’ll receive a T-shirt, certificate and a $15 refund. There are a variety of prizes for every additional million steps you take—with no limit. To enroll, contact wellness@umsystem.edu.
Ride to Wellness Program
This program is designed for the University of Missouri’s faculty and staff to get moving through counting their miles. For $20, participants will receive an odometer and a log book. Once you reach 500 miles, you get to keep the odometer and you’ll receive a T-shirt, certificate and a $20 refund. There are a variety of prizes for every additional 500 miles—with no limit. To enroll, contact wellness@umsystem.edu.
Weight Watchers
Faculty and Staff are eligible for Weight Watchers discounts:
_____________________________________________________________________________
Blaine Snow
Healthy for Life: TE Atkins UM Wellness
myTotal Rewards, Wellness
Program Coordinator, MU, UM System and MU Health Care
205 Heinkel Bldg.| Columbia, MO 65211 | 573.884.1312 (Phone) | 573.884.3123 (Fax)
Faculty & Staff: To earn your $100 Wellness Incentive, visit www.healthyforlife.umsystem.edu
Throughout the years email has become one of our most readily used forms of communication. You cannot buy something online, register a product, or even leave a store without someone asking you for your email address. In fact, we use it so often we can become desensitized to its true purpose and desired intention.
The objective for your email account should differ widely depending on whether it is your University account or your personal account. As a best practice, your University account should be regarded as work-related and reserved for what it has been truly designed for: University business. Use your personal account for everything else such as personal communications, coupons, purchase confirmations, product registries and updates, and so forth.
Here are few reasons why it is essential to compartmentalize your private and professional electronic communications:
It enhances your security consciousness. If you do not offer your University email address to financial organizations (such as your bank or PayPal) you can be certain that the emails you receive through your University inbox claiming to be from one of these entities is truly a phishing attempt. The best approach with phishing is to simply delete the message. If you would like to report it, you may send it to abuse@missouri.edu. When reporting phishing, please send the original email as an attachment by dragging and dropping it into a new message box.
Your University email account maybe more secure if you are using it for professional use only. You should not use your University account for non-work related website registrations. Registering your information with various sites can be risky as some sites are less secure than others. If your personal account becomes compromised due to insecurities, the integrity of your University account will remain intact. Note: you should have different passwords for each of your accounts and each site you access!
It improves your productivity and helps you stay organized. Personal emails or spam can interfere with your work and increase the likelihood of important work-related emails getting over looked or lost within the mix. Separate email accounts grants you the opportunity to direct non-work items to your other email account making it easier for you to stay on task while at work.
There are legal obligations regarding the accessibility of your sent/received email. There may be a legal need to review University communications in which case your email communications may be made available. Most people would prefer their personal communications not be scrutinized or reviewed as part of this process, thus even more incentive to have separate professional and personal email accounts.
The University’s spam filtering tools may block certain inbound emails. The University employs spam filtering tools in an effort to reduce unwanted inbound email. The University will accept requests for email address exceptions (this is known as whitelisting); however, the requestor must be able to provide legitimate cause for this exception. Whitelisting requests that do not pertain to University business may be declined.
HSL’s team, Lottes of Steps, consisting of team captain Darell Schmick, Shelly McDavid, Amanda Sprochi, Diane Johnson, Caryn Scoville & Mike Spears logged a total of 5,319,234 steps in the Tiger Institute’s Columbia Steps Challenge Competition, placing 39th out of 199 teams.
Diane Johnson coauthored a paper with Deborah Finfgeld-Connett:
“Literature search strategies for conducting knowledge-building and theory-generating qualitative systematic reviews,” Journal of Advanced Nursing
Volume 69, Issue 1, pages 194–204, January 2013