Beginning August 1, Information Technology Services will require off-campus faculty, staff, and students to use Pulse Secure to remotely access on-campus Windows, Mac, and Linux services and workstations. This change will specifically affect Remote Desktop and SSH protocols. This step is being taken to comply with audit findings from the University’s cyber insurance carrier as well as commitments to the Board of Trustee’s Risk Management & Audit committee and guidance from our external security consults. If you need assistance connecting to the Brandeis VPN Service, please visit https://www.brandeis.edu/its/services/network-connectivity/vpn.html or contact the Brandeis Help Desk by sending an email to help@brandeis.edu, or calling 781-736-4357 for more information.

Qualtrics is a robust online survey tool used to conduct survey research, gather feedback or collect data to support your department needs. It is available to all Brandeis students, faculty and staff for no additional cost. To create your account please go to brandeis.qualtrics.com and log in with your Brandeis username and password. Staff, faculty and graduate students can request an upgrade code to unlock greater functionality by emailing dataservices@brandeis.edu. Visit our webpage to sign up for one of our Qualtrics workshops, request a training session for a group, or to make an appointment to learn more about Qualtrics.

Jazz Dottin, an academic administrator for the International and Global Studies Program and Environmental Studies Program, started a YouTube Channel called Black Gems Unearthed. She started Black Gems Unearthed in 2020 to share stories she has learned about Black history in her home state of Massachusetts. Jazz can be reached at jasminedottin@brandeis.edu.

FRESH Pantry will be open this summer for free access to non-perishable food and hygiene products for all Brandeis students and employees!

**Please Note: although FRESH is open this summer, the Game Room will remain closed to other activities.

For more information on food resources, follow @freshbrandeis on Instagram or visit the FRESH Pantry website.

Beginning this week and continuing into August, underground steam line repairs will be taking place along Loop Road.

On upper-campus, work will take place between Rabb and Mandel. Work will not block the Loop Road but please be mindful of construction vehicles as they will pull in and out of traffic lanes from time to time.

On lower campus, work will take place from the loading dock of Sherman Dining hall uphill towards the front of Rose Art Museum. At times, throughout the summer, the roadway in this area may be reduced to a single lane of travel. Access to Hassenfeld parking will remain open, but please drive with caution in this stretch of roadway. Expect to see construction vehicles and workers in this area, particularly behind the Faculty club.

Please use caution around these construction areas while you travel the campus. If you have any questions, please email Michael McGarry.

On Monday, June 20, ITS will begin a new method to update Windows software on ITS-managed computers. This new update method will be accompanied by a pop-up message giving the user the option to "snooze" the installation for a limited amount of time in the event that it is not a convenient time. The update will eventually install on its own once the max number of delays has been reached. This new approach to updates will prevent ITS-managed computers from falling behind in security updates, as many have done over the past two years. Users may see a pop up in the bottom right of their screen informing them they have updates pending. There will be two options to select: Ok (installs the updates) and Snooze (allows the user to select a time between 15 minutes and 2 hours to delay the install). After the update installs, users will need to reboot, but will also have the ability to snooze the reboot if it's not a convenient time.

Library Summer Workshops - Open to all members of the Brandeis community!

Citation Management

• Introduction to Zotero, 10 - 11:20 a.m., Thursday, June 23

Data Services and Software

• Data Visualization with R, 1 - 1:50 p.m., Tuesday, June 21

• Bivariate Analysis with Stata 1 - 1:50 p.m., Thursday, June 23

3D Printing

• Intro to 3D Printing with Flashforge, 10 a.m. - noon, Friday, July 15

Archives and Special Collections

• Researching in Archives, 12 - 12:30 p.m., Thursday, June 30
• The Beginnings of Brandeis: A History in Pictures, noon - 12:30 p.m., Tuesday, July 12

An ongoing paper shortage prevents us from distributing the Summer 2022 issue of Brandeis Magazine to our entire mailing list. As a result, all faculty and staff — including those who, through Workday, have opted to receive the magazine’s print edition — will be sent an email with a link to the magazine’s digital edition when it goes live in July. We hope to be able to restore your preference for how you receive the magazine with the next issue. We apologize for the disruption, and we thank you for your understanding. If you have any questions, please email magazine@brandeis.edu.

The Brandeis University Employee Assistance Program (EAP)  has resources and services available to help. The EAP services are provided by New Directions and are free, confidential and available 24 hours a day, every day. Please login to the New Directions website and enter the company code ‘brandeis university’ or call them directly at 800-828-6025. For support related to the recent shooting in Texas, click on the purple banner in the middle of the page.

The Brandeis Sustainability Committee has created a list of teaching resources for faculty to prepare for the Year of Climate Action. These include lesson plans, tools faculty can use to quantify climate solutions, multi-media resources, and climate data.

The Office of Sustainability is also compiling a list of faculty and courses who will be supporting the year through their courses or research. We would like to highlight your work on our website as we have already done with some faculty. Please contact mfischer@brandeis.edu to be included in this list.

Brandeis' partnership with Harvest Table for campus food service will formally begin on July 1, 2022. An informational email on what to expect will go out in late June. In the meantime, you may have questions -- about dietary needs, catering, student employment, etc. Please send all inquiries to harvesttable@brandeis.edu.

As the fiscal year is coming to a close, the Division of Business and Finance would like to remind budget managers and others with financial transaction responsibilities to review your departments' financial reports. Please refer to the year-end memo for a list of deadlines and milestones. The last day to submit any accounting entries for fiscal year 2022 is Friday, July 15.   

For questions, please contact a member of our team. 

In advance of the fall bill coming in early July, new students should access the Nelnet Student Account Portal to set up an account and add authorized parties. Please complete the following steps to ensure account access:

1. Set-up Nelnet account - Students should log in to the Nelnet Student Account Portal to set up their student profile. Refer to the Nelnet - Account Access job aid for detailed instructions.
2. Add parent or authorized parties access - Refer to the Nelnet - Add Authorized Payers job aid for detailed instructions. Students should not share their Nelnet log-in credentials with their parents. They must set up parents as Authorized Parties with their own log-in credentials.

We will send a notification to students and authorized parties when the information is ready in Nelnet.