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HRD Training
HR Development lists current announcements, training resources and schedules on its Web site at http://bama.ua.edu/~hr/st-dev/index.htm.

Building Community
Communication
Continuous Quality Improvement
Computer Workshops
Performance Development
Personal Safety
Job Openings
Miscellaneous

BENEFITS REVIEW

Building Community

Building Community -- Human Relations for the 21st Century.

Human Relations for the 21st Century is designed to develop human relations skills, heighten awareness of others and foster a sense of community throughout the UA campus. Workshops that bear the Building Community logo are available to UA employees.

Who Moved My Cheese -- HRD Team, May 14, 9:30-11:30 a.m.
The Diversity Experience -- HRD Team, Date TBA

Communication

Advanced Connections -- Moving Quality Service Beyond the Basics -- HRD Team, scheduled by request

Continuous Quality Improvement

CQI Leadership Seminar Series. CQI workshops are part of the Leadership Seminar Series designed for people in academic and administrative organizations, such as deans, department chairs, directors, managers, assistant and associate directors and faculty who lead projects, or plan on moving into leadership roles. All workshops will be facilitated by John Dew, director for Continuous Quality Improvement. Contact the CQI Office at 348-9831 to schedule workshops, which are designed for 2-4 hours.

Computer Workshops

E-Course -- HRD Team, May 15-17, 9 a.m.-noon
Windows for E-Course -- HRD Team, May 15-17, 9 a.m.-noon

Performance Development

Conducting Performance Reviews -- HRD Team, May 21, 1:30-3 p.m.; May 30, 8:30-10 a.m.; June 4, 8:30-10 a.m.; June 12, 1:30-3 p.m.; June 21, 8:30-10 a.m.; July 1, 1:30-3 p.m.

Personal Safety

Right to Know -- Janie Fowler, Health and Safety, May 23, 8:15-8:45 a.m.

Job Openings

The University of Alabama is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer. For the latest job update, call the UA job line, 348-7780. For a full line listing of available positions, visit the Employment Office web site. Remember that office, technical, clerical, maintenance and service positions stay on the Job Line only five days. Faculty positions are listed under the appropriate college or school.

Miscellaneous

New Employee Orientation introduces all new UA employees to campus life and provides them and employees with a status change (regular, part-time or temporary) an opportunity for benefits advisement and enrollment. New employees and employees with status change must pre-register and attend a New Employee Orientation session within the first 30 days of employment to be eligible for health insurance. Sessions are offered every Monday.

Three ways to register and to check out training manual:

Call 348-7125
Fax to 348-2072
Email mkarrh@fan.ua.edu

Human Resources Development training sessions will be conducted at G54 Rose Administration building unless otherwise stated. Persons with special needs should contact Margie Karrh.

The Training Resource Center (TRC) offers videos for a staff development "lunch and learn" program. The TRC accommodates six to eight people.

Benefits Review

By Sandra Abrams, Manager of Benefits

Tuition Grant Applications -- All regular full-time and part-time faculty and staff employed for six continuous months are eligible to receive educational benefits through the tuition grant program sponsored by UA. The program applies to the payment of tuition only.

The tuition grant provides the eligible faculty or staff member's full tuition credit for up to three course hours during the fall and spring semesters and six course hours during the summer term. Regular part-time employees will receive a prorated amount of tuition grant based upon their FTE (full-time equivalency).

Spouses and dependent children of eligible faculty and staff members may receive 50 percent tuition credit at the standard on-campus in-state tuition rate. Eligible dependent children must be unmarried and under age 24 on the first day of classes.

Effective January 2002, the taxation of graduate course credit has been eliminated and will not be taxed to the employee. However, graduate course credit taken by dependents of employees will be taxed to the employee at the end of the semester in which the dependent was enrolled and received a tuition grant. This will usually occur in June for the spring semester, September for summer term and December for the fall semester.

Details of the policy and the forms may be obtained from the Benefits Office. One form is valid from fall semester through the end of the summer term. Forms for the academic year beginning fall 2002 through summer 2003 should be received in the Benefits Office by July 19, 2002. For information, call the Benefits Office at 348-7117.