The Office of Human Resources would like your opinion–please vote.

A few years ago, Brandeis began the tradition of a holiday celebration for all faculty and staff, and your response and participation has been wonderful. We look forward to continuing the tradition, and would like to have the arrangements enable as many of you to participate as possible.

We have done this in two different configurations in the past years–the Holiday dinner in Levin from 5-7 p.m., and the Holiday party (prizes & raffles) in Levin from 2-4 p.m. We would love to know your preference as we schedule this year and future years. Please complete this survey, your vote will be anonymous. That's all you need to do to participate, and we appreciate your taking time to respond.

It’s that time of year to nominate a Brandeis staff member for The Lou Ennis Staff Award and The Louis and Helen Zirkel Staff Award.

This is your opportunity to nominate an individual who excels in the performance of his/her job responsibilities and goes above and beyond to make a contribution to the well-being and the vitality of the Brandeis community. Nominees must be full-time administrative or support staff.

Please complete the nomination form and return to Giovanna Abeiga. Direct all questions to Giovanna by phone, 6-4464 or email.

 For more information about the awards, please visit the Office of Human Resources.

The Resilience Fair, sponsored by The Care Team, Health and Wellness Promotion (HAWP), Prevention, Advocacy and Resource Center (PARC), and the Dean of Students Office, will host interactive tables and workshops for students to meet campus resources that support resilience–skills needed to bounce back from challenges, grow from failure, and build capacity to navigate and overcome difficult situations. Departments supporting undergraduate and graduate student resilience across campus will host tables. Short (20 minute) drop-in programs include Meet a Therapy Dog, Mindfulness, and Yoga. Raffle for prizes, table giveaways, ice cream, and more. All faculty, staff, and students are welcome. For more more information please contact Wendy Gordon-Hewick.

The Office of Finance and Administration will be selling tickets to the 2019-2020 Boston Celtics home games, available for purchase by faculty, staff and post-docs. For information please visit the Office of the Executive Vice President for Finance and Administration website.

With the end of the calendar year approaching, it is a perfect time for employees to review their vacation balances. The University vacation policy limits balances that employees are allowed to carry-over to the next calendar year. On January 1, 2020, employees who have balances that exceed the carry-over limit will have their balances reduced. Please plan ahead and use your accrued time to avoid losing any vacation time. As always supervisors approval is required before vacation leave can be taken. Please visit the Human Resources Website to view the paid time off policy.

A shuttle will run from the Brandeis campus to Market Basket Mondays through Fridays. A 12 passenger van will leave Brandeis from Spingold Circle operating on the following schedule:

• Departure from Spingold Circle: Noon | 12:30 p.m. | 1:30 p.m. | 2:30 p.m.
• Departure from Market Basket for return to campus: 1 p.m. | 2 p.m. | 3 p.m. | 4 p.m. (final trip back to campus)

The schedule may vary slightly due to traffic and weather conditions.

For more information or questions please contact Ed Callahan at ecallaha@brandeis.edu.

Now that the semester has started, University Records Management would like to remind faculty and staff to take some time to think about managing their files—both paper and electronic. URM’s LibGuide can help you understand your role in supporting the documentation of university history and meet legal and contractual requirements. Think about your records now and learn more about URM services.

Human Resources is kicking off the following Management “Nuts and Bolts” workshops as a pilot program to provide managers with key knowledge and tools. Managers can register for any or all of the following workshops:

• TBD | Learning About Different Positions Types
• Thursday, Oct. 3 | Performance Reviews—Coaching and Counseling
• Tuesday, Oct. 15 | Legal Aspects of a Supervisor
• Thursday, Nov. 7 | Introduction to Leave Policies
• Thursday, Dec. 5 | How to Conduct One-on-Ones

To register or for more detailed information please visit the Human Resources Training and Professional Development web page.

All Brandeis faculty and staff are invited to exhibit their artwork in JustArts, the sixth biannual faculty/staff exhibition. Faculty emeriti and post-docs are also welcome to participate.

For more information and to register please visit the JustArts web page.

Please contact Ingrid Schorr at ingrids@brandeis.edu or 781-736-5008 with questions.

Beginning in this month, Student Accessibility Support (SAS) will host monthly Accessibility Community Lunches in Shapiro Camps Center Room 313 open to the entire Brandeis community. These brown-bag lunches will offer a time and space for students, staff and faculty to talk informally about topics including accessibility, become better acquainted, and to experience a sense of a campus accessibility community. The lunches are planned for noon on Monday, Sept .23, Wednesday, Oct. 23, and Monday, Nov. 25. For more information please contact Kaitlyn Rogers at kaitlynrogers@brandeis.edu.