The Broncho Beat – December 2021 Issue

Feature Story: Adjusting to the Great Reshuffling—A Guide for the Tired 2021 Performance Appraisals Winter Break Housekeeping Years of Service Micro-credentials Student Employment Reminders Tech Corner: Staying Connected this Season Staff Senate Update Faculty Senate Update November New Employees December…

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Feature Story: Adjusting to the Great Reshuffling – A Guide for the Tired

Erika Cerda, assistant vice president, Talent Management If you haven’t heard, the “great reshuffling” is the new moniker for the “great resignation”. I like to think of it as a corporate rebrand. Whatever you’d like to call it, employees are…

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2021 Performance Appraisals

Sydney Wood, specialist, Employee Relations It’s that time of the year again! As we look forward to 2022, it’s time for us to reflect on the challenges we’ve faced and our achievements over this past year. Performance appraisals provide a…

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Winter Break Housekeeping

Jeff Mlekush, coordinator safety operations, Environmental Health and Safety Shortly, we will all be enjoying the winter break. Before the break, here are a few housekeeping items to put on your to-do list before you leave campus. Remove all holiday…

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Years of Service Micro-credentials

Mary Deter-Billings, manager, Employee Relations Employee Relations has partnered with LX Studio to offer micro-credentials which will be showcased through a digital badge to celebrate significant milestones in faculty and staff member’s career at UCO. Starting this month, faculty and…

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Student Employment Reminders

Brittany Holbrook, talent operations specialist Student employees remain active in Paycom from Fall to Spring automatically.  If a student fails to meet enrollment requirements for Spring, they will be terminated during HR’s “Enrollment Audit” which is completed by the HR…

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Tech Corner: Staying Connected this Season

Stephanie Edwards, manager of web strategies and OIT communications, IT During this busy holiday season, make sure you can securely access your UCO information from wherever your travels might take you! UCO’s VPN, or “Virtual Private Network”, AnyConnect makes it…

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Staff Senate Update

Ellen Schmidt, master electrician, Mitchell Hall Theatre The Staff Senate met on Tuesday, Nov. 2. Our guest speaker was Christopher Lynch, Vice President for Enrollment and Student Success. We passed two amendments to the Staff Senate Bylaws: SSA 2021/2022- 001…

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Faculty Senate Update

Kristi Archuleta, Ed. D., professor, Department of Adult Education & Safety Sciences The regularly scheduled November meeting was held on Thursday, Nov. 11. Guest speakers began with Provost Charlotte Simmons giving an update on Academic Affairs and progress regarding the upcoming budgeting process. Additionally, the follow guest speakers provided special presentation about…

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November New Employees

Bonnie HowardAssociate DirectorUndergraduate Admissions Glenda KeltonProject ManagerInformation Technology Jennifer MolockInclusive Community OfficerPeople & Culture Stephen ScottDesktop Support SpecialistInformation Technology Brad StairProject ManagerInformation Technology Isaac StropesSystem Admin IIInformation Technology Mark VaughnAssociate DirectorUndergraduate Recruitment Alexas BrownRetention CoordinatorStudent Support Services Selena RomeroTemp PT…

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December Years of Service

28 Years Keith Webb 27 Years Vickie Garlitz 25 Years Guy Ellis 19 Years Michael Wallo 18 Years William Mccormick 17 Years Katrina Shaklee 15 Years Jane Womble 13 Years Kirsten Davis 11 Years Heather Peck 9 Years Cynthia Sapper…

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December Birthdays

1 Sutapa RoyDouglas Miller 2 Stephen WagnerCarrie KoutsJacob Black 3 Mary CarverDavid RehfeldGina SiglSharla WeathersKari Luttrell 4 Mansur ChoudryLauren AkinsJill Priest 5 Darrell FordKarla Osby 6 Abbie LambertRyan SharpKanika Bhargava 7 Tiffany YoderKristen MerrittRhonda BarnettMegan Fletcher 8 Jadith ZieglerKristen Gregory…

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