The Fall 2023 bill is now available to students and families via the Nelnet Student Account Portal and will be due on August 4, 2023. The link to the e-bill was sent by e-mail to students and their Authorized Parties. The e-mail came from our billing partner, Nelnet, from the email address noreply@campuscommerce.com with subject: BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY BILL AVAILABLE. If you do not receive the email, please check your spam filters.

Students can access their billing details by clicking the Nelnet Student Account Portal link found within the Student Account worklet in Workday. Students who have never accessed the Nelnet Student Account Portal before will need to set up their student profile (refer to the Nelnet - Account Access job aid for detailed instructions) before they can view the bill.

In order for parents, guardians, sponsors, or another party to receive the student's tuition bill, view the student account, and make payments, the student must add them as Authorized Parties in Nelnet. Once they are set up as an Authorized Party, parents/guardians can access Nelnet directly with their own usernames and passwords; they cannot use the student's log-in credentials to access the portal.

Review your e-bill and the Transaction Details in Nelnet. If you have questions about the balance or payment options contact Brandeis Student Financial Services at sfs@brandeis.edu or 781-736-3700.

To help balance work achievements and life activities, Brandeis offers a variety of programs, services and resources to help our employees attain a healthy lifestyle. For more information visit Human Resources website under Employee Benefits/Work-Life Balance.

Take advantage of our upcoming wellness webinars through Fidelity Investments and Tufts.

Fidelity Web Workshops

• Make the Most of Your Retirement Savings, July 18, noon, Register Here
  Learn how to maximize your retirement savings, ways to save for retirement beyond your workplace savings plans, and steps you can take today to get prepared for retirement.
• Fundamentals of Retirement Income Planning, August 9, noon, Register Here
  Learn how the building blocks of an income plan can offset the key risks in retirement, as well as how you can use Fidelity’s resources to feel more confident as you prepare to make the move from saving to spending.

Tufts – Living Well at Home

Join daily wellness programs and webinars at Tufts Well-Being webinar series and Guided Mindfulness Sessions. For more information visit Human Resources website under Employee Benefits/Work-Life Balance/Well-Being.

Open to all members of the Brandeis community:

• Intro to 3D Printing with Flashforge, 1 - 2:30 p.m., Monday, July 17
• Machine Learning: Image Recognition with Tensorflow (1), noon - 1:30 p.m., Tuesday, July 18
• Intro to Vinyl Cutting & 2D Graphics, 3 - 4 p.m., Tuesday, July 18
• Machine Learning: Image Recognition with Tensorflow (2), noon - 1:30 p.m., Wednesday, July 19
• Data Analysis with R (1), 9 a.m. - noon, Monday, July 24
• Data Analysis with R (2), 9 a.m. - noon, Tuesday, July 25

Open to all graduate students:

• Graduate Writers Workspace (campus/Zoom), 1 - 4 p.m., Monday, July 17
• Assessing Your Own Work for Clarity and Structure, 10 - 11 a.m., Thursday, July 20

Brandeis will be making a critical improvement to our systems' security and user data protection. Effective Tuesday, August 15, our DUO Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) system will require re-authentication every seven days using the "trust this browser" option.

The Brandeis security team identified the urgent need to reduce re-authentication time to seven days, down from 15 days, in response to recent security incidents. We appreciate the community's support in securing Brandeis's network and systems and will provide additional information before the update.

Please visit the ITS website to learn more about DUO Multi-Factor Authentication, including best practices for authentication with personal devices. If you have additional questions about DUO authentication, don't hesitate to contact ITS Security.

The Supreme Court issued a decision on June 30, 2023 prohibiting Biden from moving forward with his one-time student debt relief plan, which means that no debt can be discharged under this program. Interest on federal student loans will start accruing on September 1, 2023, and first payments will be due in October. When designing a new debt relief program, the Department of Education will consider ways to ensure that borrowers making payments do not reduce their eligibility for debt relief. Please visit the Federal Student Aid debt relief website for updates.

Faculty, staff, and postdoctoral scholars can now update their Workday profiles to include education information. Users can view and add education information under the Career tab on their Workday profiles. Before changes are published to faculty education profiles, the requested updates will be sent to their Deans’ Offices for approval. Academic affiliates with a courtesy appointment to Brandeis should contact their academic unit for assistance in adding their education information. Instructions to Add Education Information are available on the Workday@Brandeis website.

The Technology Help Desk is open to support your technology-related issues at the following times:

• Monday - Thursday, 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.
• Friday, 8 a.m. - 4 p.m.
• Saturday and Sunday, closed

The Help Desk staff is committed to providing high-level technology support and service to the Brandeis community this Summer. Our team of technology support specialists is located in the Goldfarb Library, Level 1. Community members can also get support by sending an email to help@brandeis.edu or calling 781-736-4357. For more information, including a detailed support schedule for Summer 2023, please visit the ITS website.

The Department of Student Engagement (DSE) is seeking dedicated staff and faculty to volunteer as advisors to our undergraduate student clubs and organizations. DSE views the role of advisor as one of mentorship, support, relationship-building, and knowledge-sharing as students transition in and out of their leadership roles. In addition to supporting the needs of the student club or organization, an advisor should serve as an intermediary with other university departments, creating consistent, clear expectations of policies and procedures across organizations. With the help of advisors, we hope to build a more cohesive student experience and develop strong leaders in all of our student organizations.

Any Brandeis staff or faculty member, or graduate student in good standing with the university, can serve as an advisor to a student organization. The general expectations of advisors include:

• Meet with the organization’s executive board at least once a semester and offer other time to meet as needed.
• Understand DSE club policies and help hold club members accountable. Training will be provided to advisors on general policies and expectations.
• Utilize the Campus Groups platform to support student organization event management, finances, and general club activities.
• Maintain communication with DSE staff including an email group and once a month meeting (as fits with the advisor’s schedule).

Club advisors will have the opportunity to form meaningful relationships with students and will be able to make a lasting impact on the Brandeis community by connecting with other faculty and staff members and supporting the role of students in co-curricular activities. Additionally, club advisors will be eligible to be nominated as Advisor of the Year at the annual Prizes and Awards Ceremony.

If you are interested in possibly serving as an advisor to an undergraduate student organization, please take five minutes to complete the Club Advising Interest Form. Please note that completion of the form does not guarantee you an advisor position, it is simply a tool to gauge interest. Thank you for your participation and support.

Campus Planning & Operations are recognizing and celebrating the hard work and dedication of their employees.

We are inviting you, our campus partners to send personal thank-you messages to any of the Campus Planning & Operations members or their departments.

As a reminder, the organizations included in Campus Planning & Operations are: University Events, Environmental Health and Safety, Facilities Services, Capital Programs, Campus Planning, Energy & Utilities, Sustainability, University Services, and our Business Office staff.

We know this would mean a lot to our employees to hear from campus members and partners. Please email your message to Facilities@brandeis.edu by July 24.

The Department of Facilities Services will be performing its annual electrical shutdown Saturday, August 12, and Sunday, August 13 from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. each day. This work allows the Department of Facilities to exercise and test equipment that is vital to the electrical infrastructure supporting Brandeis University.

Only the following buildings will be affected:

• Aug 12 - Chiller Plant, Foster Bio, Kosow, Crown Center, & Usdan
  • Aug 12 - The following buildings will have power but NOT AC (due to Usdan being down): Brown, Goldfarb, Schwartz, Swartz Hall, Olin-Sang, Golding, Lown, Mandel, Abraham-Shapiro, Rabb Graduate Center & Lemberg
• Aug 13 - Rosenstiel, Edison Lecks, & Shapiro Science Center

Please contact Facilities Services at 781-736-8500 or visit the Department of Facilities Services website for more information.