Healthy for Life Update

New! Financial Wellness Program
Cultivating financial wellness can be as easy as completing a few steps annually. This year, the University of Missouri System has gathered the financial resources available to you in the financial wellness webpage, your one-stop-shop for educational information, tools, and events designed to help you become and stay financially well. Lay the foundation for your financial wellness in 2016; access the resources available to you today! The Financial Wellness program provides resources and classes available to ALL full-time/part-time faculty and staff.

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Ready to explore Financial Wellness? Click Here!


Wellness Incentive: Tier 1 ends April 30…only 1 week left!
Tier 1 of the 2016 Wellness Incentive ends April 30. Complete these two simple steps in order to earn $100* in your final May paycheck and help define what wellness means to you:

  1. Sign a wellness pledge, which most eligible employees** signed during Annual Enrollment in October 2015.
  2. Complete a Personal Health Assessment (PHA)—this online questionnaire takes about 15 minutes and is designed to identify any potential health risks. Log in to the Wellness Portal to complete your PHA.

Educate yourself to discover ways you could improve your health. Then, invest in yourself by participating in Tier 2 activities that help you reach your goals. Check out http://umurl.us/incentive for more information. For questions, please contact the HR Service Center at (573) 882-2146 or HRServiceCenter@umsystem.edu.

*2016 Wellness Incentive earnings will be taxed and voluntary retirement contributions will be deducted, just like with other earnings.

Want to check your point total? See #12 in the Quick Start Guide to learn how to review your point total and find answers to many frequently asked questions.


Financial Wellness Workshop
Create a Budget, Ditch Your Debt, and Start Building for the Future

When: Friday April 29, 2016

Time: 11:00a.m. -12:00p.m.           

Location: General Services Building, Room 194B

Registration: Online or call 800-642-7131

Visit http://umurl.us/finwell for more information.

As a Healthy for Life sponsored workshop, eligible participants will receive 25 Wellness Incentive points. Contact wellness@umsystem.edu for questions.


Healthy for Life Event Calendar
Are you looking for Healthy for Life classes and workshops happening on your campus? The Healthy for Life Event Calendar has what you are looking for. You may access this calendar anytime from the Healthy for Life home page. Use ‘Event Category’ to refine your search by campus, event type or wellness incentive eligible items.

Go to the calendar now!

Check with LTS if you’re using macros

Are you using macros as part of your Microsoft Access, Excel or Word processes? LTS would like to know!

It was recently discovered that Microsoft macros could be exploited; your computer could be taken over for malicious means if you are using macros in Microsoft products. The way to be protected is to either not use macros at all, or to have macros ‘signed’. A signed macro simply means that the macro has been certified to be safe to use. Once the certification process is complete, the macro may be used.

LTS would like to be able to provide signed certificates to all needed macros so that they may be used safely.

Please contact us at asklts@missouri.edu or 884-6404 so we may start the process of securing your work.

Changes in Ellis Library Administration Office

Ellen Blair, fiscal officer, will be retiring on July 30. At that time Kathy Peters will take over as her iterim replacement. In addition, Steven Hammer, fiscal assistant, will be retiring on July 1. His position will be combined with the executive assistant positition that was formerly held by Mark Ellis. That posistion will be posted.

Decisions about new reporting structures that will need to be made because of these changes will be made soon.