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Good afternoon.
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Welcome to the September staff council meeting.
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Thank you for coming today.
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I called the meeting to order at 12:06.
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And who does the minutes in Jen's absence?
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You.
Me? Okay.
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So I hope you had a chance to take a look at the minutes
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and find any discrepancies or have any thoughts,
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but need a motion to approve the minutes
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from the August meeting please.
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I, Susan, will make motion
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to approve the August meeting minutes.
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Thank you.
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And a second?
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I will second.
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Okay.
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Thank you, Nicole.
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All those in favor of approving the minutes,
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please raise your hand.
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Anyone who does not approve?
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Any abstentions?
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All right.
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So the minutes for August half been approved.
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So this is an opportunity
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if you'd like to introduce yourself
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and share a little bit about yourself.
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So this is the public comment thing period
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we finally get to utilize.
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(people laughing)
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Not to put any pressure.
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You can say pass and that's fine too.
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Well, my name's Karen Coleman.
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I'm the executive assistant for the Vice Provost
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for Academic Affairs and Student Success.
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I'm also the Academic Program review coordinator
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in the office.
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This is my third week.
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I'm enjoying it.
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Being back at UVM.
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I worked here many years ago in the development office
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and in the provost office.
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I was here for 17 years, left and come back.
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Most recently, worked at Champlain
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and was on the staff council there.
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And I just enjoyed being on active and involved on campus.
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So this staff council's a great place to be.
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What is something at the staff council
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at Champlain that you really appreciated or liked?
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Well, I was co-chair
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for the Welfare and Advocacy Committee.
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So I really enjoy being able to help, you know,
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share input with the powers that be
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in terms of, you know, staff-related issues,
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you know, whether it's benefits or pay or whatever.
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So I enjoy that, being able to help the staff move forward.
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And are the staff
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at Champlain union any highest?
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Are they represented by Union?
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No.
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No, they're not.
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Okay.
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So here at UVM, a lot of staff, most of the staff
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are represented by the union.
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So the staff council has shifted in responsibilities.
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We do have a committee
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that represents the non-represented staff,
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and of which there are around 600 employees.
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And that's the compensation and benefits committee.
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And the rest of staff council lets the union handle
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of the employee related items specific
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to a represented staff.
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And we focus on community engagement, social committee,
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and professional development.
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And those have different charges of umbrellas under them.
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But we would certainly welcome suggestions and input.
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Thank you.
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Okay.
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Anyone else out there who wants to?
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Nope. Okay.
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Up here if you want public.
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Okay.
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You're up, Alan.
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I am up.
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I gotta stop put myself in this agendas.
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So we now have a full slate of committee co-chairs.
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And to make it official, the full staff council is charged
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with voting approval of those co-chairs
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that the committees have already voted on.
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So the slate is Meredith and John for CBB,
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Nicole and Jennifer Payne from PPD,
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Maureen and Susan from the social committee,
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Lee and Chelsea from committee engagements.
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So I ask for a motion to approve those appointees.
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Great.
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And a second.
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I'll second.
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Thank you.
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Any discussion?
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Questions?
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Okay, hearing none, all in favor,
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please raise your hands.
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Can lower those.
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Any opposed?
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Any abstentions?
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I see three hands up.
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Jennifer, Cindy, and Perry, just to confirm,
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are you abstaining?
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I am not abstaining.
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You're not abstaining? Okay.
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Okay.
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Congratulations our new co-chairs.
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So we're gonna move around a little bit
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'cause we're ahead of the game here today.
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And when Betty Jo, is she coming in person?
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Do we know?
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Yeah.
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Okay, we'll just jump into that when she arrives.
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So just a little bit of an update.
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Lindsey Moore has an accepted a position outside of UVM,
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so she will not be serving on staff council anymore.
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And so in her place, I have appointed Catherine
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as a parliamentarian for the executive committee.
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And with that change, Amanda, you had put yourself out there
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for that large member.
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If you would like to revisit that,
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we can offer that off to...
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(moderator faintly speaking)
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You know, and then Alan, would you mind following up
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with any details for that?
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Okay.
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Hi, Jonathan.
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Thanks for coming.
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We have a little bit of extra time.
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Jonathan, is there anything that you wanted to share
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with the council or just here to listen in today?
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Just here to.
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Okay.
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Hi.
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Sorry I'm late.
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Emily, you're good.
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We're here for fun. (giggles)
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Let's move forward with the standing committee updates.
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We're a little bit ahead of schedule. (faintly speaking)
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Kinda jumping around a little bit.
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Which committee would like to start us off today?
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I'll start
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since (faintly speaking) probably.
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Susan, I congratulations on being co-chairs.
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We have not yet met, but we have a meeting on the books.
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Or we haven't got a meeting on the books yet,
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but we will have a meeting on the books.
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I mean for, yeah, the two of us get together,
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so we're just putting the wheels in motion.
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So we have no formal report and just encourage anybody
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who has any ideas about social activities.
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We're gonna continue I think the slate
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that something else has been successful in the past,
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but as always, we're open up other things
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as one time events come up or new ideas surface.
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Feel free to share it.
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Yeah. (faintly speaking).
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We have PTD or we need engagement.
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I can go.
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Thank you.
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For PPD.
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So we met on, yeah, I don't know what day,
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I think it was like August 20th or something.
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So we did our, you know, voted on the chairs.
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We did that.
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We talked about the Cat Chat.
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So we have confirmed our three speakers for Cat Chat
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for September 19th.
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And it will be held in Memorial Lounge
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in the Waterman building.
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(participants chattering)
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Let's see.
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We discussed...
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Is there some background noise or something?
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There's something going on behind us.
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Oh, okay, okay.
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We talked about a repair cafe.
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We kinda tossed that around what that would look like.
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And then we figured out that in November,
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there's an America Recycle's Day.
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So Karyn McGovern is gonna reach out to Corey
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and ask him if he can send the info
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about the America Recycle's Day.
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And then we can share that information in the staff line.
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So there's that.
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We talked about our goals for FY'25
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and getting like closer connected with Jack Dorkey
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and his needs over in talent development.
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So we're working with him.
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He's talking about, you know, all the things
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that he's doing on campus.
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We're reaching out to see how we can help him, you know,
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either do, you know, create new offerings
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or promote his offerings.
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And he's also working with Mind Edge
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or with Pace on Mind Edge courses
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and offering a 50% discount to staff.
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So we can help promote that as well.
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We're gonna have...
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In the past, I'm just trying to think of his name now.
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Gosh, it just jumped out of my head.
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Alan, who used to attend our meetings.
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Joel Shapiro.
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Joel Shapiro. Thank you. (chuckles)
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So we were gonna invite Jack to maybe attend our meetings,
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listen in and we can kind of have discussion
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about, you know, either some make suggestions to him
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about things to offer or he could tell us
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and we can help promote it.
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So it would be great.
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It will be great to have him at our future meetings.
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The other two things that we kind of talked about,
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we talked about the professional development fund
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and we did award, I think, eight people
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the scholarship this time around.
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So our team just met and we did that.
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Other business that Alan brought up was the HR meeting
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and Monica would like to talk to Jack
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about SharePoint training.
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So more to come on that.
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But that's all.
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Basically, that's all I have.
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Thank you.
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Next with community engagement.
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I can do the report since Lee's not here yet.
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Of course, Chelsea's brand new to the chairmanship.
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If you attended the executive board meeting,
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that's what I was gonna say.
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I have my notes here.
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Discussed reengaging with the book club.
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Sky, maybe you can help me with this too 'cause yeah.
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And the folks in our community engagement.
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So the book club, campus tours, crafting, gatherings
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were all discussed too to get going again for the fall
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and spring.
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What else?
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CSA.
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The CSA program.
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This is going strongly.
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Yeah, there's a lot of response to the CSA program.
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About 80 folks signed up for the first phase
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and 60 for the second phase.
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And, of course, we have had negotiated Allison Spain,
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had negotiated three free shares per week
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during the course of summer.
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So with over 150 people showing interest
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in being able only able to offer three shares per week.
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There's clearly an interest in that.
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So the committee might pursue additional shares next year
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or might not do it at all.
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It's be able to the committee to do,
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but it's going pretty well.
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A few little hiccups early on
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with getting the shares out to, but that's okay.
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And what else?
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Is there anything else?
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Not that springs to mind.
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There was some talk of volunteering,
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sort of union sanctioned volunteering
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and working with the powers that be in HR
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to make that thing.
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That's a very long term.
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Well, I assume it will take a while.
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Has there ever been any consideration
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of staff counsel purchasing AECSA share for
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that we could wanna re-off potentially
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if we're such on gravy?
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There hasn't been that discussion.
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If the funds are there,
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I'm sure (faintly speaking) donated would be.
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Or, you know, additional donations
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or additional funds to consider.
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Yeah.
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I think, I guess, what I'm trying to get at,
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I think, sometimes these opportunities
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can really be just that opportunities
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like they're showing like an undiscovered
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or unknown need and then how can we meet that need
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or how can we better, how can we find solutions
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that can meet those needs, right?
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So any thinking about?
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CBD?
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CBD?
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Meredith or John.
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John's gonna talk.
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(people laughing)
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Yep.
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I'll chime in.
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We had our meeting and are definitely working
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on our priority list that we've established from last year.
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We followed up with HR on several issues
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and are waiting to hear back on some of the information.
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But we are rolling right along actually.
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Okay. Thank you.
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Alan include the officer's update.
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So we had meetings with the president,
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strategic communication.
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Jonathan, human resources.
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Who else did we need with?
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That's it.
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Anybody have any questions about those meetings?
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I'm gonna throw in some new information that I shared
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with the executive board.
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Cindy's got her hand up.
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Okay.
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Go ahead, Cindy.
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Thanks, Monica.
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I'm curious if you have more information
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about the years of service recognition
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for the one, three and five years folks,
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and if, how that's gonna roll out
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and who will be responsible for that recognition?
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'Cause I'm just...
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If it's gonna be the departments
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that are responsible for this,
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we need some guidance and heads up on that.
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I can swing
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to that a little bit now actually, Jennifer.
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Yeah, we can both
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'cause we just had our (faintly speaking) service.
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(moderator laughing)
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So good question.
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I'll start and then you wanna add in, KD?
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Sure. Yeah.
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So HR is managing that process
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and what they're doing is they're sending out an email
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to those individuals with those different service levels
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thanking them.
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And then you get to pick a gift
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depending on your service level.
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So I have to go pick up my UVM hat.
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I think it was an umbrella, socks or a hat.
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I got posters.
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Oh, you got posters.
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Okay.
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Wow, that's a good one.
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And just heard from a couple people already
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how much they appreciate that
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and it's just a thoughtful like recognition,
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like so HR is managing that.
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And Alan, you wanna add to that?
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Yeah, I think you've covered it.
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I moved from doing recognitions
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during the staff appreciation week,
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recognizing all the years of service
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for everybody all at once to doing it within the month
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that they come to their year of service
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and also expanding it to the one, three and five year folks
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where before, I think it started at 10, 15, 20, 25
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or something like that.
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And as Monica said,
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HR and Liv is basically managing that whole process.
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So Cindy, you shouldn't have to do anything.
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And that wasn't mine.
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Well, maybe it was a little bit of my motivation.
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So has that been communicated to everybody too?
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Do you know?
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I've heard heard it through different venues
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of just because of where my office is,
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but it'd be good for everybody to know,
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both supervisors and staff who won't really expect this.
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And I think it's great.
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This is nothing against it.
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I'm just, you know.
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Supervisor is copied on the email.
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It's hard to like where am I?
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Supervisor is copied on that email,
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so they find out via email.
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That's all I know of.
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Okay.
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Okay, thanks.
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Would you like us to request that
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just like a little statement
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of what's happening be published in inside UVM?
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I don't think that would be a bad idea.
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Just so supervisors won't get caught off guard
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and say, oh, yeah, I guess,
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I should have been paying attention
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to your three year anniversary.
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But, you know, it's just good
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to communicate what changes are happening,
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And this is a positive change.
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So, you know, it's good news.
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I haven't seen it.
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Maybe we can get Gene. (faintly speaking)
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Gene, communications person for HR
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and we could reach out to her.
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Okay. Let's do that.
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Thank you.
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Great question and suggestions, Cindy.
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Great.
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And just so you know, I think Nicole's been mentioning this,
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but we virtual folks are not seeing the room anymore.
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We're just seeing like a screensaver.
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Working on it.
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Okay.
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(participant faintly speaking)
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Thank you.
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Might have to suffer with that through the meeting.
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I was just gonna mention a few things
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that I shared with the executive committee,
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share with the greater staff council
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since the senior leadership meetings have taken place.
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One is may have heard that Suresh Garimella
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has taken an accepted position as president
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of Arizona State.
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So we will have Patty Prelock as the interim president
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when that transition takes place this fall.
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And then there's a call out for the vice provost position
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and I think that's closing this week or next week.
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Very short timeframe for those applications to get in
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and we reviewed.
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Part of that process is going to be a search
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for a new president,
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which is managed by the board of trustees,
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and they will be employing a search firm.
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They welcome our input.
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So if you have thoughts, ideas,
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or hear from your constituents about things
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that you think people are looking for
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in the next UVM president, please share that with us
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and we can bring that to the senior leadership meetings.
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It's a great opportunity to, you know, put out there,
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you know, what you think the needs should be.
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That should be addressed.
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The process will be made available on a webpage,
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which I'm not sure if that's live.
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Is it live?
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Not live yet.
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But communications is building a webpage
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to address specifically the presidential search.
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So you will be able to direct your constituents
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and yourself to that page for updated information
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and just what that process looked like, expect.
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I think last time around, there was some concern voiced
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by staff about why didn't we have more people on campus
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as finalists.
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There are variety of reasons for that
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that may or may not be the case again.
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And I think that we just wanna be able to provide
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as much information as possible about the process
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so everybody can understand there is a process
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and that it's being followed in the interest
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of finding the best new president for the organization.
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(participant faintly speaking)
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Any questions on that?
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(participant faintly speaking)
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Any thoughts about the presidential search at all?
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The second thing that came up was just a safety meeting
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with the different activities happening in Burlington.
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There's some, you know, concern.
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And make sure Ling is looking at, you know, the processes
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and just educating students.
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If you're student facing, you know, safety in numbers,
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nothing good happens after midnight.
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(participant laughing)
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You know, we talked a little bit
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about no matter how many safety guidelines
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you put out there, the beer goggles get in the way.
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So, you know, just reminding students
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and each other about, you know, how to be safe,
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have the CATSafe app on your phone,
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make sure students have it and that it's readily accessible,
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'cause a lot of times things can happen quickly.
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You wanna be able to just have that at your fingertips.
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And there's just different groups of people
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in the Burlington area that are trying to get attention
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and just to be very aware of your surroundings.
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And, you know, basically, not give those groups the space
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to bother you or cause any problems as best you can.
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Any questions about that?
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I don't have a question about that.
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I didn't have question about this presidential staff search.
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And is that, that'll be communicated, I guess, centrally,
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like once the website's up or?
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Yeah, absolutely.
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So the presidential search lives with the board of trustees
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(participant faintly speaking)
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New responsibility.
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It's not implicated administrative responsibility
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to the board.
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We will have administrative liaisons
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and search all that will get underway,
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I think, relatively soon.
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But the board has to take action to initiate it.
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What Monica mentioned,
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there will be a UVM board/presidential search.
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I think it is where the BRL will land on
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where all the communications that go to the community
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will also be posted there.
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There'll be timelines, there'll be guidelines.
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Also, the board will hire a search firm.
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I'm almost certain that make sense
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to not hire a search firm to assist.
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And then that the search firm also have a big role
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in supporting the board and executing the disparity.
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So doing things like listening sessions and taking these.
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So some of that is the purview of it,
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like the search handles that,
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but all of that communication should start to unroll
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over the next couple weeks. (faintly speaking)
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I think his final day.
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So he has been in that,
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he will begin at University of Arizona, not Arizona State.
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Oh, thank you.
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(participants chattering)
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It matters to him.
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(participants laughing)
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Thank you.
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On October 1st.
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So we have to say his last day be Monday, September 30th.
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The Patty's appointment is effective upon departure,
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so that'll be likely should start October 1st.
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So there's a month?
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No, September 30th.
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September 30th.
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(participants chattering)
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Last day. First day. (faintly speaking)
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And then the same thing like the acting provost
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would begin October 1st also.
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So it's all happening soon.
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Thank you.
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And what I can share
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is that there will be a search committee
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and staff does have a role on that committee.
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And I'm just getting clarification from the board,
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like in the bylaws, it spells out how many faculty
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and how many students.
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It doesn't have a specific number for staff.
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So I'm waiting for Ron to let us know.
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And we can also invite Ron to come
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and speak to staff council a little bit about that process
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that where they're headed.
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I'm expecting to hear back from him
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within about five to seven days.
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We emailed mid last week.
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And so I think he's gonna have more information
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to share probably early next week is my guess.
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So I'm gonna have to assume
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that means we get at least one person
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on the search committee, as we're mentioned.
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So it could be more than that.
550
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And then we can have a larger discussion
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about who that staff member should be.
552
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That is the board.
553
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(participants chattering)
554
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I don't know.
555
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That's a good question. Yeah.
556
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Maybe on the board of (faintly speaking).
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So just to be clear,
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based on what I've know,
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the board has all authority over the composition
560
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of the search committee,
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which the side of the search committee,
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it's only thing that is prescribed in the university manual.
563
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(participant faintly speaking)
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Is that there are four faculty members.
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Four in the search committee, elected by the...
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So the faculty get to choose their evidence.
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,Okay.
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Through a kind of convoluted process.
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But then everybody else, even the student,
570
00:29:19.260 --> 00:29:21.095
there was also two students that are meant
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to be on the board or on the search committee.
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And they can recommend students.
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The SGA can recommend the students to the board,
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but the board use everybody except for (faintly speaking).
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00:29:34.721 --> 00:29:38.430
And can also appoint more faculty that can...
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00:29:38.430 --> 00:29:42.040
The board has a lot of authority in presidential,
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it's one of their main.
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They have a lot of.
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But they decided they have a lot of leeway
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to construct the search committee (faintly speaking)
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but have a manual process. (faintly speaking)
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(participants chattering)
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And I would say, I mean, from my point of view,
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staff is bill defined.
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Okay.
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Or because everybody from Richard Kate
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to every other person,
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student, employee is technically staff
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as far as the manual is concerned.
590
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Okay.
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Thank you.
592
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That's great.
593
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Great information.
594
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But Ron, as chair of the board of trustees,
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did say that he really is looking for
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and welcomes input, you know,
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regardless of who ends up sitting on the search committee
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you know, that they're still room for that.
599
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So we kinda hopped around a little bit.
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And now Bettyjo's here.
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Welcome.
602
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Hi.
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And we're excited to have you
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just chat a little bit with us about what you've been doing
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since you started with the university
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and what your group is up to.
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Sure, sure.
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I don't know if we can share slides,
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but if not, I can kind of just-
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I can either do it or you can do it,
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but sure, wherever you prefer
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If you're already connected,
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that would be wonderful.
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We'll do that.
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Yeah.
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Well, hello everyone.
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I haven't met everyone
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but I think we have a little familiar faces, which is great.
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I'm Bettyjo Bouchey, I'm the chief officer
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of professional continuing education here at UVM.
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I'm gonna talk a little bit about PACE today.
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Some of you may be very familiar with what we do.
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Some perhaps less so, so happy to fill in some gaps
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for those that may be new to the PACE environment
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but also to talk a little bit
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about what we're up to this coming year as well.
627
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So with that, let' see
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Yeah.
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I don't see this fine at all.
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00:32:02.360 --> 00:32:06.643
(participant faintly speaking)
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(participants chattering)
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Can people online see it and hear or no?
633
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They should be able to hear it.
634
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They should be able to see it.
635
00:32:22.493 --> 00:32:23.761
And just folks here can't see it.
636
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I don't know why.
637
00:32:24.594 --> 00:32:26.152
Okay.
638
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At any rate, of course, that would be in the recording
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and happy to to share this slide around.
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If you're not familiar with PACE,
641
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we are actually over on 23 Mansfield.
642
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If you've seen the old Planned Parenthood building,
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that is where's located,
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right across the street from the firehouse,
645
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which is a delight I imagine.
646
00:32:50.880 --> 00:32:55.170
So I joined the institution in February of this year.
647
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So super grateful to be here.
648
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And we closed on house in June.
649
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So I am not living on campus anymore.
650
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And some of you know my stories about living on campus,
651
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so I won't belabor that.
652
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But in talking about what PACE does,
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I think some of the best ways
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that I've heard it described maybe is aligning
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to literature over the last few years
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around this 60 year curricula.
657
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Has anyone ever heard that terminology before?
658
00:33:25.920 --> 00:33:29.070
So essentially, there were a couple of researchers
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that coined this term to say,
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you could ostensibly recruit a student or a learner once
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and serve them for 60 years, right?
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00:33:40.980 --> 00:33:43.620
And so from my perspective,
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PACE is really a critical enabler
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around that 60 year continuum.
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Whereas we already have traditional mechanisms
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to attract undergraduate and graduate students
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certainly in the face-to-face environment at UVM
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for many, many years, right?
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Whereas then PACE has this way of creating other new on
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and off ramps into the institution,
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whether that spans from our youth programs all the way down
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to middle school into the pre-college dual credit
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and dual enrollment space.
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We help administer summer university as well.
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So those are some other sort of, I guess,
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for lack of better word, some of our younger on ramps
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and off ramps that we might help our academic units with.
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But then all the way into our graduate programming,
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particularly this year,
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and I'll talk about this in just a second,
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we're spending a lot of time talking to academic units
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about launching more online graduate degree programs
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as a way to build some of our graduate population.
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but also knowing it's very difficult
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to only do that on campus,
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especially as we think about a contemporary adult learner
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who may not be able to attend classes full-time
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during the day, right?
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So then after that grad online space,
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we help our academic units with micro-credentials,
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fairly often graduate certificates of a study,
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and hopefully making these stackable
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into this larger master's degree.
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And then we do quite a lot of non-degree
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and non-credit work as well.
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A lot of times when people think about PACE
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they think about only the non-credit piece,
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which is totally fine
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because that is a super important part of our portfolio
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as we think about really living our land grant mission
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and serving the state of Vermont
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and upskilling our workforce, right?
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So we've spent a lot of effort over the past two years
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and will continue to sort of double down
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on employer engagement,
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understanding, you know, across the entire state,
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not just in Chittenden County,
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but what are the needs of our employers?
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As you can probably guess, they have just as much
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of a challenge attracting talent as we do.
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00:36:12.840 --> 00:36:15.690
And so the behooves them as it behooves us
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to upskill their current talent as their businesses change.
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And so we can be a key component to that.
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And then perhaps our last stop on that 60 years
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is our Osher Lifelong Learning Institutes.
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00:36:28.080 --> 00:36:31.740
So we do have an OLLI unit that on campus
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that is housed in PACE and we also do that statewide.
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00:36:35.730 --> 00:36:39.830
So that OLLI space, if you haven't...
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Since any time looking at our offerings,
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we've grown a lot in our OLLI learners
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over the past three years and we've just bridged over
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to serving 10,000 learners last year.
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So exciting.
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10,000 enrollments rather.
725
00:36:57.330 --> 00:36:58.710
My apologies.
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00:36:58.710 --> 00:37:01.020
This headcount versus enrollment thing
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00:37:01.020 --> 00:37:06.020
is continuing to bust my brain here and there.
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00:37:06.060 --> 00:37:09.570
So we have a fairly diverse portfolio.
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We hover around 50 different programs
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that we administer over the course of the year
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on just almost as many employees.
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00:37:17.250 --> 00:37:20.850
So it's a busy unit and we do a lot of different types
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of programming even within those particular areas.
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So that's sort of some baseline knowledge on PACE.
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Any questions about our portfolio
736
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before I talk a little bit about some of our focal areas
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for this year?
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Anyone online?
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No.
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Okay.
741
00:37:44.790 --> 00:37:45.840
Yeah, Monica.
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Do you have any programming
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that you'd like to spotlight for UVM employees potentially?
744
00:37:51.480 --> 00:37:52.530
Or?
745
00:37:52.530 --> 00:37:56.993
Actually, we are working with HR right now
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00:37:56.993 --> 00:38:01.170
on some future professional development opportunities,
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particularly around sort of the emerging leaders space.
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00:38:06.150 --> 00:38:09.150
And so we are working on some of that as we speak.
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00:38:09.150 --> 00:38:12.630
So maybe just to be continued on that.
750
00:38:12.630 --> 00:38:13.620
Okay, thank you.
751
00:38:13.620 --> 00:38:14.933
Yeah, thank you.
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00:38:15.900 --> 00:38:20.040
So last slide for me, these are just our strategic pillars.
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00:38:20.040 --> 00:38:25.020
They say just because for me, a strategic plan are pillars
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00:38:25.020 --> 00:38:27.570
that help us understand our directionality
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00:38:27.570 --> 00:38:30.783
and kinda keep us coalesced around goals.
756
00:38:31.710 --> 00:38:35.820
Our first three pillars really are about programming,
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00:38:35.820 --> 00:38:39.360
whether that be in our degree space, our non-degree,
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00:38:39.360 --> 00:38:42.300
our upskilling and non-credit,
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00:38:42.300 --> 00:38:45.360
as well as how we serve different types of learners
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00:38:45.360 --> 00:38:46.470
as I talked about.
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00:38:46.470 --> 00:38:47.730
So those three pillars
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00:38:47.730 --> 00:38:52.730
are about how we do one of three things probably
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00:38:53.010 --> 00:38:54.660
is the best way to say that,
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where we help our academic units bring new programs
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to market or do that more quickly
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or perhaps with some very sort of surgical precision,
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00:39:07.260 --> 00:39:09.210
where, you know, the second piece
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is we're helping our workplaces,
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our employers in the state upskill their talent
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as I mentioned.
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00:39:16.560 --> 00:39:20.160
And that third piece, you know, just creating new leaders
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00:39:20.160 --> 00:39:22.950
into our programming here at UVM.
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00:39:22.950 --> 00:39:27.120
So that's what those three pillars are really focused on.
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00:39:27.120 --> 00:39:31.110
And the last two pillars being focused on the how.
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What does it mean?
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Once we have these opportunities,
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00:39:35.669 --> 00:39:39.090
we wanna create learning experiences that are high impact.
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00:39:39.090 --> 00:39:42.030
We wanna do that aligned with our faculty expertise,
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with our research expertise.
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00:39:44.460 --> 00:39:46.860
There are many times over the past few months
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where we have talked to an employer
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00:39:48.330 --> 00:39:51.960
who said they needed X type of upskilling
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00:39:51.960 --> 00:39:54.570
and we've perhaps even referred them to CCB
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because that's their expertise, right?
785
00:39:57.510 --> 00:40:00.810
So looking at the state as an ecosystem,
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not just, you know, sort of trying to grab
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around the edges always.
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And we can always collaborate with 'em
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on future opportunities as well.
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And then that fifth pillar is how we do that
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with our employees.
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So we are an all staff unit,
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so I think several of our folks come in
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and out staff council over the years.
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I'm sure Nick Hathaway, you know,
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she's kind of like a fan favorite here in staff council.
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I'm sure you're aware of all the great work that she does.
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But thinking about how we really sort of harness
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that the talent that we have in the unit,
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not only to keep our talent but to upskill them
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over the years as well
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and make sure that we're evolving with our academic units
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and with the state needs as well.
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So that is just to sort of in a nutshell.
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And so as we think about this year,
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again, really focusing a lot on online degree launches.
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So some of you may have heard some of that,
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some of those dialogues happening in your units
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over across campus,
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but we are excited to start doing that work
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in earnest this year.
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So more to come there as well.
813
00:41:17.730 --> 00:41:18.843
Questions for me?
814
00:41:19.860 --> 00:41:21.750
What are some of the programming
815
00:41:21.750 --> 00:41:24.690
or online opportunities that you're working on
816
00:41:24.690 --> 00:41:25.800
if you can share that?
817
00:41:25.800 --> 00:41:27.600
Yeah, I would love to share that right now,
818
00:41:27.600 --> 00:41:29.970
but it'll be a better right after...
819
00:41:29.970 --> 00:41:33.060
Right around October 1st is kind of our internal deadline
820
00:41:33.060 --> 00:41:36.300
to say we kinda need those commitments by that date,
821
00:41:36.300 --> 00:41:39.150
so that all of the rest of the deadlines kind of can be met
822
00:41:39.150 --> 00:41:42.420
for the academic year with the idea that students
823
00:41:42.420 --> 00:41:47.420
would come into those programs probably fall of next year,
824
00:41:47.640 --> 00:41:48.810
perhaps earlier,
825
00:41:48.810 --> 00:41:51.873
but we have some infrastructure to work on there.
826
00:41:53.040 --> 00:41:55.560
Will staff be able to get tuition remission
827
00:41:55.560 --> 00:41:57.570
with the online graduate programs?
828
00:41:57.570 --> 00:42:01.200
I would assume that the tuition remission
829
00:42:01.200 --> 00:42:03.400
would be the same for online programs
830
00:42:03.400 --> 00:42:05.790
as it would for any other
831
00:42:05.790 --> 00:42:07.770
though that might be a good follow up for us
832
00:42:07.770 --> 00:42:08.913
just to make sure.
833
00:42:11.035 --> 00:42:12.135
That's great question.
834
00:42:17.545 --> 00:42:18.480
I know, right?
835
00:42:18.480 --> 00:42:20.130
Any questions online?
836
00:42:24.060 --> 00:42:25.010
Chad?
837
00:42:27.330 --> 00:42:28.163
Just a comment.
838
00:42:28.163 --> 00:42:30.960
I would like that confirmed for some staff interest.
839
00:42:30.960 --> 00:42:32.850
I'm assuming that she's talking
840
00:42:32.850 --> 00:42:33.780
about this (faintly speaking).
841
00:42:33.780 --> 00:42:37.280
(participants chattering)
842
00:42:39.390 --> 00:42:41.070
I think what's exciting about it too
843
00:42:41.070 --> 00:42:45.450
is that, you know, we're looking at our own talent pool
844
00:42:45.450 --> 00:42:49.230
as something, you know, not as stagnant, but scalable
845
00:42:49.230 --> 00:42:52.860
and providing opportunities for individuals to learn
846
00:42:52.860 --> 00:42:55.560
and grow and move throughout the organization.
847
00:42:55.560 --> 00:42:57.000
So I'm excited about that.
848
00:42:57.000 --> 00:42:58.550
Yeah, very as well.
849
00:43:04.230 --> 00:43:05.683
Well, thank you for coming today.
850
00:43:05.683 --> 00:43:08.700
(faintly speaking) Nice to see you.
851
00:43:08.700 --> 00:43:10.080
That nice walk across campus.
852
00:43:10.080 --> 00:43:11.873
What a gorgeous day.
853
00:43:11.873 --> 00:43:13.770
This is a real Vermont summer day.
854
00:43:13.770 --> 00:43:15.020
That's right.
855
00:43:16.211 --> 00:43:17.700
Well, thank you again everyone.
856
00:43:17.700 --> 00:43:19.053
Bye. Thank you.
857
00:43:25.542 --> 00:43:28.890
Who we have left?
858
00:43:28.890 --> 00:43:30.933
Who's talking nominating committee?
859
00:43:34.020 --> 00:43:35.130
That would be me.
860
00:43:35.130 --> 00:43:36.080
Okay.
861
00:43:37.740 --> 00:43:38.610
Let's see.
862
00:43:38.610 --> 00:43:43.397
Let me get down here real quick to that space center bylaws.
863
00:43:45.810 --> 00:43:49.377
All right, so as many of you know,
864
00:43:49.377 --> 00:43:51.033
and if you don't, you will now,
865
00:43:52.200 --> 00:43:55.830
Jennifer and Monica served a two year term as president
866
00:43:55.830 --> 00:43:59.130
and vice president there just again the second year
867
00:43:59.130 --> 00:44:01.650
of that two year term.
868
00:44:01.650 --> 00:44:05.550
So their terms end on June 30th, 2025.
869
00:44:05.550 --> 00:44:08.100
When that happens, that kicks in the need
870
00:44:08.100 --> 00:44:13.100
for the nominating committee to come back into play,
871
00:44:13.380 --> 00:44:14.223
so to speak.
872
00:44:15.090 --> 00:44:18.780
The nominating committee is basically responsible
873
00:44:18.780 --> 00:44:23.780
for kind of the recruitment inventing of potential nominees.
874
00:44:24.120 --> 00:44:26.210
The person that leads the nominating committee
875
00:44:26.210 --> 00:44:28.020
is the parliamentarian.
876
00:44:28.020 --> 00:44:32.460
Catherine Hall would be the chair then of that committee.
877
00:44:32.460 --> 00:44:34.980
And then the rest of the committee is made up of seven
878
00:44:34.980 --> 00:44:37.383
in six additional individuals.
879
00:44:38.250 --> 00:44:40.920
Two individuals selected by the executive board,
880
00:44:40.920 --> 00:44:42.270
so they will be responsible
881
00:44:42.270 --> 00:44:44.643
for determining two additional people.
882
00:44:45.660 --> 00:44:47.190
Two individuals selected
883
00:44:47.190 --> 00:44:49.920
from within staff council membership,
884
00:44:49.920 --> 00:44:53.670
so anybody that's currently on this meeting that are members
885
00:44:53.670 --> 00:44:54.870
or anybody that is a member
886
00:44:54.870 --> 00:44:59.070
that's not in this meeting can serve.
887
00:44:59.070 --> 00:45:02.643
And then I get to pick two people from whoever I wanna pick.
888
00:45:03.870 --> 00:45:06.153
Staff council office, which is me.
889
00:45:07.410 --> 00:45:09.060
So that's the composition.
890
00:45:09.060 --> 00:45:11.580
It's usually a better practice
891
00:45:11.580 --> 00:45:14.280
to get that committee formed sooner rather than later.
892
00:45:14.280 --> 00:45:17.340
You think, wow, geez, June's forever away.
893
00:45:17.340 --> 00:45:18.450
It goes by fast.
894
00:45:18.450 --> 00:45:21.183
This process will go by in so quickly.
895
00:45:22.410 --> 00:45:24.240
People that are eligible for running
896
00:45:24.240 --> 00:45:26.720
or anyone that has served on staff council
897
00:45:26.720 --> 00:45:29.100
as a representative for at least six months
898
00:45:29.100 --> 00:45:31.380
within the last six years.
899
00:45:31.380 --> 00:45:33.720
So I do have a running list of eligible folks
900
00:45:33.720 --> 00:45:35.583
and a bunch of people actually to add on to that
901
00:45:35.583 --> 00:45:39.453
over the last year that have served as new people.
902
00:45:40.710 --> 00:45:42.960
Any questions about the nominating committee
903
00:45:42.960 --> 00:45:47.223
and what it's all about, what they do, what happens?
904
00:45:48.270 --> 00:45:49.890
What if they expressed interest
905
00:45:49.890 --> 00:45:52.473
in continuing to run or continuing to be?
906
00:45:52.473 --> 00:45:53.340
That's a good question.
907
00:45:53.340 --> 00:45:58.290
The presidents can run for one additional consecutive term.
908
00:45:58.290 --> 00:46:00.587
There is no limitation that I've ever been able to find
909
00:46:00.587 --> 00:46:02.760
on the vice president.
910
00:46:02.760 --> 00:46:05.610
Even if they choose to want to serve,
911
00:46:05.610 --> 00:46:06.960
there is still an election
912
00:46:06.960 --> 00:46:09.630
and nominations would still be sought
913
00:46:09.630 --> 00:46:12.000
from the eligibility list
914
00:46:12.000 --> 00:46:15.990
for a potential AT contested election, which is always good.
915
00:46:15.990 --> 00:46:17.940
But we haven't had one in quite a time.
916
00:46:19.840 --> 00:46:22.200
And I think we just need to clarify
917
00:46:22.200 --> 00:46:24.930
that if you're serving on the nominating committee,
918
00:46:24.930 --> 00:46:29.930
that makes you ineligible to run for those offices.
919
00:46:29.970 --> 00:46:33.210
So if you have any interest in running for those offices,
920
00:46:33.210 --> 00:46:35.360
we would not wanna serve on that committee.
921
00:46:40.350 --> 00:46:42.060
So I guess my question right now then
922
00:46:42.060 --> 00:46:43.890
since we're kinda still on topic,
923
00:46:43.890 --> 00:46:45.750
is there anybody here interested
924
00:46:45.750 --> 00:46:47.640
in serving on that committee
925
00:46:47.640 --> 00:46:49.940
or do you wanna ask me some questions about it?
926
00:46:49.940 --> 00:46:51.993
So I mean, email, you know, whatever.
927
00:46:54.240 --> 00:46:58.620
The time commitment is really largely based
928
00:46:58.620 --> 00:47:03.390
on kind of the reach out efforts.
929
00:47:03.390 --> 00:47:05.100
Usually how the committee works
930
00:47:05.100 --> 00:47:09.840
is the list gets broken down, I'll reach out to X, Y, and Z
931
00:47:09.840 --> 00:47:11.910
and I'll reach out to A, B and C.
932
00:47:11.910 --> 00:47:14.880
People like being asked rather than expect them to come
933
00:47:14.880 --> 00:47:17.130
and say, hey, I wanna do this.
934
00:47:17.130 --> 00:47:19.230
So usually the committee kinda breaks the list down
935
00:47:19.230 --> 00:47:22.713
and makes inroads to the folks that are eligible.
936
00:47:24.120 --> 00:47:25.320
They will then meet with anybody
937
00:47:25.320 --> 00:47:27.060
that fills out the nomination form,
938
00:47:27.060 --> 00:47:29.250
and like I said, invent those folks to determine
939
00:47:29.250 --> 00:47:31.740
if in fact the nominating committee feels
940
00:47:31.740 --> 00:47:35.100
that they are good enough to run.
941
00:47:35.100 --> 00:47:39.360
And then an election will happen no matter what,
942
00:47:39.360 --> 00:47:42.360
even if Monica and Jen decide to run again or just Monica
943
00:47:42.360 --> 00:47:44.880
and some new person, whatever the combination is,
944
00:47:44.880 --> 00:47:49.450
there is an election held for all staff to vote on that.
945
00:47:50.730 --> 00:47:53.820
If it's uncontested, there is a write in option as well
946
00:47:53.820 --> 00:47:56.073
that people can write in people at that time.
947
00:47:57.810 --> 00:48:00.260
That should all get finished by...
948
00:48:01.530 --> 00:48:04.230
Well, it should get finished by June 1st of next year.
949
00:48:05.370 --> 00:48:10.080
And we're still trying to recruit staff
950
00:48:10.080 --> 00:48:10.980
for staff council.
951
00:48:10.980 --> 00:48:12.750
We have a variety of openings
952
00:48:12.750 --> 00:48:15.630
that Alan can always help you identify
953
00:48:15.630 --> 00:48:18.720
but people can serve at large.
954
00:48:18.720 --> 00:48:22.770
So I think we'd like to see, you know, increased membership
955
00:48:22.770 --> 00:48:24.840
over the next...
956
00:48:24.840 --> 00:48:26.490
You know, I'd love to see if these membership
957
00:48:26.490 --> 00:48:28.263
before the beginning of the year.
958
00:48:29.280 --> 00:48:31.230
COVID kind of threw a wrench in things
959
00:48:31.230 --> 00:48:33.030
and then we had the union.
960
00:48:33.030 --> 00:48:35.160
So I think it's been a time
961
00:48:35.160 --> 00:48:38.970
where, you know, it just fell off people's radar.
962
00:48:38.970 --> 00:48:40.380
But there's a lot of opportunity
963
00:48:40.380 --> 00:48:45.380
to engage not only across campus with other departments
964
00:48:45.450 --> 00:48:47.430
and communities,
965
00:48:47.430 --> 00:48:51.600
but also we have a voice with senior administration
966
00:48:51.600 --> 00:48:53.620
and we have meetings with them
967
00:48:54.660 --> 00:48:56.190
and it's an opportunity for us
968
00:48:56.190 --> 00:48:59.820
to collect all that information from across campus
969
00:48:59.820 --> 00:49:01.443
and bring it forward.
970
00:49:02.370 --> 00:49:06.437
Ideas, suggestions, you know,
971
00:49:06.437 --> 00:49:09.273
and if there's areas that need to be addressed.
972
00:49:10.590 --> 00:49:13.377
We have that that exists within the staff council.
973
00:49:13.377 --> 00:49:17.440
And so Jen and I work really hard to honor that
974
00:49:18.840 --> 00:49:21.783
and bring forward all that information.
975
00:49:32.296 --> 00:49:34.020
Yeah, something fun.
976
00:49:34.020 --> 00:49:37.263
We usually have a fall retreat.
977
00:49:39.510 --> 00:49:42.240
So those of you, was anybody there last year
978
00:49:42.240 --> 00:49:43.650
for the fall retreat?
979
00:49:43.650 --> 00:49:45.817
That was a lot of fun, wasn't it a lot of fun?
980
00:49:45.817 --> 00:49:46.650
Yeah.
981
00:49:46.650 --> 00:49:47.820
Let's do something fun again.
982
00:49:47.820 --> 00:49:48.770
That's what I said.
983
00:49:50.850 --> 00:49:53.280
Community building in a very tasteful manner,
984
00:49:53.280 --> 00:49:55.127
like I think that was the important takeaway,
985
00:49:55.127 --> 00:49:56.790
'cause sometimes you hear that
986
00:49:56.790 --> 00:49:59.523
and you're like cringe, what's gonna be going on?
987
00:50:00.360 --> 00:50:01.920
But we did have a lot of fun
988
00:50:01.920 --> 00:50:06.270
and I would certainly welcome something similar again
989
00:50:06.270 --> 00:50:08.370
if people are interested.
990
00:50:08.370 --> 00:50:11.010
But suggestions, ideas,
991
00:50:11.010 --> 00:50:13.410
let's think about that in the next week
992
00:50:13.410 --> 00:50:15.063
and forward those to Alan.
993
00:50:16.020 --> 00:50:17.550
Can be off campus, right?
994
00:50:17.550 --> 00:50:19.554
On campus.
995
00:50:19.554 --> 00:50:20.387
Well, it's easier to do on campus.
996
00:50:20.387 --> 00:50:21.762
Easier to do on campus
997
00:50:21.762 --> 00:50:22.830
for everybody involved, I think.
998
00:50:22.830 --> 00:50:23.750
What was done last year.
999
00:50:23.750 --> 00:50:26.850
(participants chattering)
1000
00:50:26.850 --> 00:50:27.870
Oh, you want me to recap?
1001
00:50:27.870 --> 00:50:29.220
Yeah.
1002
00:50:29.220 --> 00:50:31.037
Well, just only because I don't remember the name
1003
00:50:31.037 --> 00:50:34.440
of the person who ran it, but it was a community building
1004
00:50:34.440 --> 00:50:36.360
and we had different fund events
1005
00:50:36.360 --> 00:50:39.541
that were really, and you missed it too.
1006
00:50:39.541 --> 00:50:41.490
So for that reason why.
1007
00:50:41.490 --> 00:50:43.020
Yeah.
1008
00:50:43.020 --> 00:50:48.020
We used Devin Farkas who was the outdoor coordinator person
1009
00:50:48.930 --> 00:50:52.680
in student affairs mostly.
1010
00:50:52.680 --> 00:50:57.360
And he ran very good session two, three hours,
1011
00:50:57.360 --> 00:50:58.893
something like that of team building
1012
00:50:58.893 --> 00:51:01.110
for more than staff council.
1013
00:51:01.110 --> 00:51:03.240
So a lot of different fun exercises.
1014
00:51:03.240 --> 00:51:04.983
There was food so you get to eat.
1015
00:51:06.390 --> 00:51:10.290
It sometimes and historically has happened in conjunction
1016
00:51:10.290 --> 00:51:11.850
with the staff council meetings,
1017
00:51:11.850 --> 00:51:14.610
so either before or after the staff council meetings.
1018
00:51:14.610 --> 00:51:18.540
You already kinda here to some degree.
1019
00:51:18.540 --> 00:51:19.470
Last year, it was not.
1020
00:51:19.470 --> 00:51:21.210
It was actually totally separate time,
1021
00:51:21.210 --> 00:51:23.010
which I think worked as well.
1022
00:51:23.010 --> 00:51:24.360
It is in person.
1023
00:51:24.360 --> 00:51:26.410
There is not a virtual option
1024
00:51:28.440 --> 00:51:32.100
usually because of the type of information.
1025
00:51:32.100 --> 00:51:35.433
We also have had in the past senior leadership come.
1026
00:51:37.530 --> 00:51:42.270
COVID kinda ran past issues with over the last couple years.
1027
00:51:42.270 --> 00:51:45.123
So I think last year was the first one that.
1028
00:51:47.042 --> 00:51:48.170
We did one before that.
1029
00:51:48.170 --> 00:51:49.003
We had.
1030
00:51:49.003 --> 00:51:50.310
And then there was one in 2019,
1031
00:51:50.310 --> 00:51:52.290
which was my first year in the job.
1032
00:51:52.290 --> 00:51:53.610
Wait, when was the one we did
1033
00:51:53.610 --> 00:51:56.430
the cultural food?
1034
00:51:56.430 --> 00:51:57.660
I mean, so good.
1035
00:51:57.660 --> 00:51:58.493
Yeah.
1036
00:51:58.493 --> 00:51:59.326
Was that retreat?
1037
00:51:59.326 --> 00:52:00.570
That was the year before last.
1038
00:52:00.570 --> 00:52:01.680
Oh.
1039
00:52:01.680 --> 00:52:04.550
Yeah, I don't think that was a retreat.
1040
00:52:04.550 --> 00:52:06.120
Or was that just a meeting?
1041
00:52:06.120 --> 00:52:07.439
I just remember the food.
1042
00:52:07.439 --> 00:52:10.680
(participants chattering)
1043
00:52:10.680 --> 00:52:12.540
We also have had 16 leaders come
1044
00:52:12.540 --> 00:52:17.370
and do some speaking around organizational change.
1045
00:52:17.370 --> 00:52:19.500
Patty Prelock came and gave her really good talk
1046
00:52:19.500 --> 00:52:21.273
about that 2019.
1047
00:52:22.110 --> 00:52:25.890
We had the CIO come and talk at that meeting.
1048
00:52:25.890 --> 00:52:27.960
We had a person come from within staff
1049
00:52:27.960 --> 00:52:30.840
to teach everybody how to juggle, which was fun.
1050
00:52:30.840 --> 00:52:33.659
I still have canon juggling balls in my office.
1051
00:52:33.659 --> 00:52:36.570
So, you know, really, it's up to you all
1052
00:52:36.570 --> 00:52:39.870
what you wanna accomplish in general,
1053
00:52:39.870 --> 00:52:42.533
which you wanna accomplish in that two or three hours.
1054
00:52:46.980 --> 00:52:49.163
Is there a date we're aiming for?
1055
00:52:50.940 --> 00:52:51.848
Depend on who's (faintly speaking).
1056
00:52:51.848 --> 00:52:54.630
If it's traditionally held in October.
1057
00:52:54.630 --> 00:52:56.460
Or has it moved around a lot?
1058
00:52:56.460 --> 00:52:57.300
It's moved around a little.
1059
00:52:57.300 --> 00:53:00.543
It's in the fall, so it's moved before December.
1060
00:53:01.740 --> 00:53:04.170
You know, the idea is to get it sooner rather than later
1061
00:53:04.170 --> 00:53:05.580
if you're gonna do some kind of team building,
1062
00:53:05.580 --> 00:53:06.570
it's not a team building thing,
1063
00:53:06.570 --> 00:53:08.020
it can be a little bit later.
1064
00:53:08.910 --> 00:53:11.130
November gets, I think, tricky almost.
1065
00:53:11.130 --> 00:53:15.180
Then you're like Thanksgiving and then it's winter break.
1066
00:53:15.180 --> 00:53:16.697
Probably October is (faintly speaking).
1067
00:53:20.340 --> 00:53:22.470
And just what would be meaningful?
1068
00:53:22.470 --> 00:53:25.060
Like what would be helpful to staff council
1069
00:53:26.250 --> 00:53:28.923
or what you think we could benefit from?
1070
00:53:31.260 --> 00:53:34.710
I think there probably always will be some element
1071
00:53:34.710 --> 00:53:36.930
of, you know, bringing in a senior leader
1072
00:53:36.930 --> 00:53:39.694
just even for a brief introductory remarks.
1073
00:53:39.694 --> 00:53:44.550
So I think that sounds like adding this year.
1074
00:53:44.550 --> 00:53:45.473
Yep.
1075
00:53:50.760 --> 00:53:53.613
Yeah, so send us your ideas, your thoughts.
1076
00:53:54.480 --> 00:53:55.980
There definitely will be food.
1077
00:53:59.580 --> 00:54:01.050
Anything jumping out at anyone?
1078
00:54:01.050 --> 00:54:03.960
Was anybody, were you with us last year or something?
1079
00:54:03.960 --> 00:54:05.220
No.
1080
00:54:05.220 --> 00:54:06.390
In Georgia until like February.
1081
00:54:06.390 --> 00:54:07.540
Oh, okay.
1082
00:54:09.960 --> 00:54:11.820
I mean unless there's any opposition,
1083
00:54:11.820 --> 00:54:14.460
I would really vote for having Devin come back.
1084
00:54:14.460 --> 00:54:17.223
That was just an incredible experience.
1085
00:54:18.420 --> 00:54:23.420
So unless we get a better idea, that'll be our fallback.
1086
00:54:23.640 --> 00:54:26.100
Is Centennial Woods still open?
1087
00:54:26.100 --> 00:54:29.394
Is like hiking through Centennial Woods or?
1088
00:54:29.394 --> 00:54:32.370
(participant faintly speaking)
1089
00:54:32.370 --> 00:54:33.203
Could be.
1090
00:54:33.203 --> 00:54:36.123
October gets a little tricky weather wise, but yeah.
1091
00:54:36.990 --> 00:54:37.823
That would be a good walk
1092
00:54:37.823 --> 00:54:39.564
for the committee.
1093
00:54:39.564 --> 00:54:40.560
(participants chattering)
1094
00:54:40.560 --> 00:54:42.150
Yeah, did one.
1095
00:54:42.150 --> 00:54:44.413
That was the very first one that they did.
1096
00:54:44.413 --> 00:54:47.397
(participants chattering)
1097
00:54:47.397 --> 00:54:49.110
The other thought I had too
1098
00:54:49.110 --> 00:54:53.610
for community engagement was if they wanted to do anything
1099
00:54:53.610 --> 00:54:57.300
around like just getting the word out
1100
00:54:57.300 --> 00:55:00.210
about, you know, voting in the election.
1101
00:55:00.210 --> 00:55:02.940
I know the student government, I talked to Mater,
1102
00:55:02.940 --> 00:55:06.750
she is working with her organization
1103
00:55:06.750 --> 00:55:09.690
to help get word out about, you know.
1104
00:55:09.690 --> 00:55:13.200
Well, we could potentially partner with them
1105
00:55:13.200 --> 00:55:15.150
if we're interested.
1106
00:55:15.150 --> 00:55:17.640
It seems to fall in community engagement.
1107
00:55:17.640 --> 00:55:19.170
What you think?
1108
00:55:19.170 --> 00:55:20.070
From reading in the paper,
1109
00:55:20.070 --> 00:55:22.200
it sounds like everybody in Vermont
1110
00:55:22.200 --> 00:55:24.240
is going to be mailed a ballot
1111
00:55:24.240 --> 00:55:27.660
and you can either mail it back or drop it off
1112
00:55:27.660 --> 00:55:30.022
or bring it with you that day to put through the machine.
1113
00:55:30.022 --> 00:55:31.350
Just put through the machine.
1114
00:55:31.350 --> 00:55:32.880
So everybody will receive the ballot.
1115
00:55:32.880 --> 00:55:36.420
So it's a matter of encouraging them to fill it out
1116
00:55:36.420 --> 00:55:38.430
and hand it one way or another.
1117
00:55:38.430 --> 00:55:39.750
Yeah, it's really interesting.
1118
00:55:39.750 --> 00:55:42.420
I haven't dived dove deep on the numbers
1119
00:55:42.420 --> 00:55:43.800
but, you know, there's a certain number
1120
00:55:43.800 --> 00:55:44.970
of registered voters.
1121
00:55:44.970 --> 00:55:47.340
And then from that pool,
1122
00:55:47.340 --> 00:55:50.520
there's a certain number of people that vote.
1123
00:55:50.520 --> 00:55:54.210
And I think especially being on campus, you know,
1124
00:55:54.210 --> 00:55:57.750
it's great to share that experience
1125
00:55:57.750 --> 00:56:00.600
or that thought with the students, you know,
1126
00:56:00.600 --> 00:56:02.940
about this is their time
1127
00:56:02.940 --> 00:56:06.840
where they can exercise their political opinion
1128
00:56:06.840 --> 00:56:09.303
in a very formal process.
1129
00:56:10.950 --> 00:56:13.920
And then certainly, I'm sure Maters looking
1130
00:56:13.920 --> 00:56:15.510
at, you know, how that affects students
1131
00:56:15.510 --> 00:56:17.730
that aren't from Vermont, right?
1132
00:56:17.730 --> 00:56:20.370
Probably having those conversations earlier versus later,
1133
00:56:20.370 --> 00:56:22.200
like if you're interested in voting
1134
00:56:22.200 --> 00:56:26.073
and you're not registered in Vermont, how does that happen?
1135
00:56:28.770 --> 00:56:30.420
I already had a student come into our office
1136
00:56:30.420 --> 00:56:31.560
thinking we're printing mail,
1137
00:56:31.560 --> 00:56:33.900
wondering where they can mail the drafts and key ballot.
1138
00:56:33.900 --> 00:56:35.910
So there's already, but it's too still for that.
1139
00:56:35.910 --> 00:56:37.670
It must have been a primary.
1140
00:56:37.670 --> 00:56:39.420
Must have been a primary. Yeah.
1141
00:56:39.420 --> 00:56:40.763
But yeah, so.
1142
00:56:43.410 --> 00:56:45.077
Thank you.
1143
00:56:45.077 --> 00:56:47.273
What do we have left bottom here?
1144
00:56:48.720 --> 00:56:52.040
Now this is the opportunity for the council members
1145
00:56:52.040 --> 00:56:54.120
to just bring up any new business thoughts.
1146
00:56:54.120 --> 00:56:57.540
We talked a little bit about Instagram last meeting.
1147
00:56:57.540 --> 00:57:00.240
I'm not sure if we've had too much traction on that.
1148
00:57:00.240 --> 00:57:04.140
That's a pretty large process because it's time consuming
1149
00:57:04.140 --> 00:57:06.450
but there's definitely interest out there
1150
00:57:06.450 --> 00:57:07.620
and building that out.
1151
00:57:07.620 --> 00:57:10.110
And then if there's anything else.
1152
00:57:10.110 --> 00:57:11.790
I think I was gonna make a note
1153
00:57:11.790 --> 00:57:14.760
on that same topic of just thinking about ways
1154
00:57:14.760 --> 00:57:16.440
that you're reporting to your constituents,
1155
00:57:16.440 --> 00:57:18.540
whether it be pulling things
1156
00:57:18.540 --> 00:57:21.540
that you think they'd be interested in and emailing them out
1157
00:57:21.540 --> 00:57:24.120
or writing a summary of our meetings and emailing that out.
1158
00:57:24.120 --> 00:57:26.040
But just ways for you to communicate
1159
00:57:26.040 --> 00:57:28.290
with your constituents is important.
1160
00:57:28.290 --> 00:57:31.090
Maybe sometime we can just share how everyone does that,
1161
00:57:32.550 --> 00:57:34.680
but that's, I think, one of our goals for this year
1162
00:57:34.680 --> 00:57:35.943
was better communication.
1163
00:57:40.890 --> 00:57:42.390
So that this information
1164
00:57:42.390 --> 00:57:44.523
doesn't just end here, right?
1165
00:57:46.645 --> 00:57:48.060
That it really gets out there.
1166
00:57:48.060 --> 00:57:50.790
And we're also trying to attend staff meetings
1167
00:57:50.790 --> 00:57:53.520
across campus this year.
1168
00:57:53.520 --> 00:57:58.440
So if you know what your department division does
1169
00:57:58.440 --> 00:58:00.840
and when those dates are like the first of the month
1170
00:58:00.840 --> 00:58:04.530
or once a quarter, please share that with Alan
1171
00:58:04.530 --> 00:58:09.153
so he can reach out and start scheduling some time for us.
1172
00:58:10.200 --> 00:58:11.940
And I think the length of the minutes
1173
00:58:11.940 --> 00:58:14.890
are included in the staff line, but not every month, right?
1174
00:58:17.129 --> 00:58:18.210
No.
1175
00:58:18.210 --> 00:58:19.440
No?
1176
00:58:19.440 --> 00:58:20.760
Is it on the website still?
1177
00:58:20.760 --> 00:58:21.720
Yes.
1178
00:58:21.720 --> 00:58:22.973
On the website.
1179
00:58:24.304 --> 00:58:29.304
It's not a bad idea though. (faintly speaking)
1180
00:58:34.303 --> 00:58:36.120
I do wanna just provide a quick update.
1181
00:58:36.120 --> 00:58:37.770
It's in the right up here too.
1182
00:58:37.770 --> 00:58:40.950
But as we move towards Drupal 10
1183
00:58:40.950 --> 00:58:45.750
that sunset is for Drupal 7 is in January
1184
00:58:45.750 --> 00:58:48.570
and we just got an update from the communications team
1185
00:58:48.570 --> 00:58:51.660
that things are progressing as scheduled
1186
00:58:51.660 --> 00:58:53.070
and they've identified areas
1187
00:58:53.070 --> 00:58:54.870
that need a little more targeted attention
1188
00:58:54.870 --> 00:58:59.870
but that's happening in different phases across campus.
1189
00:59:02.070 --> 00:59:04.590
College medicine is a little bit outside of that space
1190
00:59:04.590 --> 00:59:06.690
because they're not on Drupal currently,
1191
00:59:06.690 --> 00:59:11.690
so they don't have as much urgency in converting
1192
00:59:12.450 --> 00:59:15.900
to Drupal 10 as the rest of the campus who's using a version
1193
00:59:15.900 --> 00:59:18.507
that will not be supported at the beginning of the year.
1194
00:59:18.507 --> 00:59:20.340
And sometimes those things are extended
1195
00:59:20.340 --> 00:59:23.760
but I think they were pretty happy with the progress.
1196
00:59:23.760 --> 00:59:27.528
Any concerns or any feedback about that migration?
1197
00:59:27.528 --> 00:59:28.830
(participant faintly speaking)
1198
00:59:28.830 --> 00:59:33.830
It's the platform for our website and web-based information.
1199
00:59:38.550 --> 00:59:41.190
You might have noticed that some UVM websites
1200
00:59:41.190 --> 00:59:42.840
look a lot different than others.
1201
00:59:44.109 --> 00:59:47.443
The new ones, the fancier ones are on Drupal 10,
1202
00:59:49.020 --> 00:59:51.360
and that's affecting different parts of the organization
1203
00:59:51.360 --> 00:59:52.383
in different ways.
1204
00:59:56.970 --> 00:59:59.190
Well, that was a lot of information.
1205
00:59:59.190 --> 01:00:01.350
I'll let you guys go enjoy some of the sunshine
1206
01:00:01.350 --> 01:00:03.500
unless there's anything else to talk about.
1207
01:00:06.690 --> 01:00:08.520
Exciting start to the new year
1208
01:00:08.520 --> 01:00:10.710
and we've got staff appreciation week coming up.
1209
01:00:10.710 --> 01:00:11.744
Oh that's what I was gonna say.
1210
01:00:11.744 --> 01:00:13.320
Yeah. (faintly speaking)
1211
01:00:13.320 --> 01:00:14.760
A lot of good activities.
1212
01:00:14.760 --> 01:00:17.910
We've really partnered with Liv and HR
1213
01:00:17.910 --> 01:00:20.373
and it should be a great week.
1214
01:00:21.510 --> 01:00:25.260
On that note, we have made efforts
1215
01:00:25.260 --> 01:00:28.500
to identify departments and organizations
1216
01:00:28.500 --> 01:00:32.163
and individuals who are not able to attend the barbecue.
1217
01:00:33.120 --> 01:00:35.040
If you know of anybody
1218
01:00:35.040 --> 01:00:37.230
and feel like that hasn't been addressed with them,
1219
01:00:37.230 --> 01:00:40.309
we're trying to make sure we get food to them,
1220
01:00:40.309 --> 01:00:42.480
but I think isn't putting me one of 'em that-
1221
01:00:42.480 --> 01:00:44.400
Liv is on.
1222
01:00:44.400 --> 01:00:45.527
Wanna talk to her about, ask her.
1223
01:00:45.527 --> 01:00:46.950
Do you have any updates
1224
01:00:46.950 --> 01:00:48.633
or additional information, Liv?
1225
01:00:52.500 --> 01:00:53.373
Hi, everyone.
1226
01:00:55.590 --> 01:00:57.300
The staff appreciation committee
1227
01:00:57.300 --> 01:01:00.210
has identified two major groups,
1228
01:01:00.210 --> 01:01:03.180
which is the third shift custodial workers
1229
01:01:03.180 --> 01:01:05.850
and the third shift physical plant workers.
1230
01:01:05.850 --> 01:01:09.870
So we are doing a 10:00 PM, you know, lunch, dinner
1231
01:01:09.870 --> 01:01:12.480
for them on Wednesday of staff appreciation week
1232
01:01:12.480 --> 01:01:13.623
during their shift.
1233
01:01:14.490 --> 01:01:18.150
And so if anyone wants to help with setup for that,
1234
01:01:18.150 --> 01:01:20.130
definitely let me know.
1235
01:01:20.130 --> 01:01:22.080
But we do already have some people that have volunteered
1236
01:01:22.080 --> 01:01:23.880
to help with that sort of coverage.
1237
01:01:23.880 --> 01:01:26.610
I've also been in contact
1238
01:01:26.610 --> 01:01:29.760
but need to still reach out again to Elizabeth Monroe
1239
01:01:29.760 --> 01:01:32.884
who is the, I think, you know, so to speak.
1240
01:01:32.884 --> 01:01:35.460
I don't know if her exact title is HR rep
1241
01:01:35.460 --> 01:01:39.300
for police services, but she is kind of their administrator
1242
01:01:39.300 --> 01:01:42.030
and so kind of working also with the police services group
1243
01:01:42.030 --> 01:01:46.080
just because they may be on campus that day obviously,
1244
01:01:46.080 --> 01:01:48.270
but because of their type of work.
1245
01:01:48.270 --> 01:01:50.970
They can be pulled in obviously many directions.
1246
01:01:50.970 --> 01:01:52.650
So those are the three main groups
1247
01:01:52.650 --> 01:01:56.550
that the staff appreciation committee has been identifying
1248
01:01:56.550 --> 01:01:58.353
and kind of work to solve.
1249
01:01:59.850 --> 01:02:04.850
But other than that, there's no other outreach directly
1250
01:02:05.100 --> 01:02:06.060
to me at least
1251
01:02:06.060 --> 01:02:09.213
and I don't believe to the other committee members.
1252
01:02:10.530 --> 01:02:13.500
So Monica and Jen, I don't know what your vision was
1253
01:02:13.500 --> 01:02:17.520
but happy to help figure out what you...
1254
01:02:17.520 --> 01:02:19.590
Or, yeah, like Print and Mail other people
1255
01:02:19.590 --> 01:02:22.383
that really can't leave their offices.
1256
01:02:23.700 --> 01:02:27.720
Definitely feel free to email me and I'll say Alan as well.
1257
01:02:27.720 --> 01:02:30.170
Alan is also on the staff appreciation committee.
1258
01:02:31.320 --> 01:02:34.860
So if you wanna email us or, I guess, email Monica,
1259
01:02:34.860 --> 01:02:36.240
I don't know how you wanna do it, Monica,
1260
01:02:36.240 --> 01:02:37.770
but however we can support.
1261
01:02:37.770 --> 01:02:40.140
Those are the only updates I have, I guess
1262
01:02:40.140 --> 01:02:41.100
I have a question, Liv.
1263
01:02:41.100 --> 01:02:42.580
Yes.
1264
01:02:42.580 --> 01:02:44.400
So Print and Mail does shut down between 12 and 1
1265
01:02:44.400 --> 01:02:45.720
for a dedicated lunch.
1266
01:02:45.720 --> 01:02:47.430
Our office doesn't have that privilege
1267
01:02:47.430 --> 01:02:50.400
but we always have to have somebody in our office.
1268
01:02:50.400 --> 01:02:54.120
But our office, as you might know,
1269
01:02:54.120 --> 01:02:55.380
works on a hybrid schedule
1270
01:02:55.380 --> 01:02:58.410
and we had discussed possibly the possibility
1271
01:02:58.410 --> 01:03:00.270
of doing staff appreciation week
1272
01:03:00.270 --> 01:03:01.770
and this might be something for the future
1273
01:03:01.770 --> 01:03:05.280
where it falls halfway like a Wednesday to a Wednesday
1274
01:03:05.280 --> 01:03:06.750
as opposed to a Monday to a Friday.
1275
01:03:06.750 --> 01:03:09.150
So those people who are on the hybrid schedule coming in
1276
01:03:09.150 --> 01:03:11.250
every other week aren't left out,
1277
01:03:11.250 --> 01:03:14.400
which they are left out of a lot of activities
1278
01:03:14.400 --> 01:03:15.360
because it only falls
1279
01:03:15.360 --> 01:03:17.973
within a certain week some of the things.
1280
01:03:18.976 --> 01:03:21.513
So that's another consideration for the future.
1281
01:03:22.530 --> 01:03:23.363
No, I think there's...
1282
01:03:23.363 --> 01:03:26.850
I mean, after this year, we really have the opportunity
1283
01:03:26.850 --> 01:03:30.360
to rethink how we would like to do staff appreciation week.
1284
01:03:30.360 --> 01:03:32.040
When I took on staff appreciation week,
1285
01:03:32.040 --> 01:03:34.890
everything had already been booked in the same tradition
1286
01:03:34.890 --> 01:03:35.730
that it has been.
1287
01:03:35.730 --> 01:03:37.650
So I've heard a lot of great feedback
1288
01:03:37.650 --> 01:03:41.310
about remote workers, hybrid schedules.
1289
01:03:41.310 --> 01:03:43.200
Do we want a week in September?
1290
01:03:43.200 --> 01:03:44.760
Is that even a good time?
1291
01:03:44.760 --> 01:03:45.593
Do you know what I mean?
1292
01:03:45.593 --> 01:03:48.090
There's some great feedback that I have.
1293
01:03:48.090 --> 01:03:49.590
So I would just encourage you
1294
01:03:49.590 --> 01:03:51.930
just how Alan was kind of, you know, giving everyone
1295
01:03:51.930 --> 01:03:55.860
the heads up about Jennifer and Monica, you know,
1296
01:03:55.860 --> 01:03:59.403
being coming to the end of their term,
1297
01:04:00.540 --> 01:04:02.730
we are also in like that change of season
1298
01:04:02.730 --> 01:04:04.470
where even those staff appreciation week
1299
01:04:04.470 --> 01:04:06.330
is just about to happen this year.
1300
01:04:06.330 --> 01:04:08.730
We really need to book a lot of those spaces a year
1301
01:04:08.730 --> 01:04:09.563
in advance.
1302
01:04:09.563 --> 01:04:11.370
So now is when the time when we already need
1303
01:04:11.370 --> 01:04:14.010
to be thinking about how we wanna approach next year.
1304
01:04:14.010 --> 01:04:17.193
So if anyone is interested in being on the committee,
1305
01:04:18.090 --> 01:04:20.880
I should really send out a blast soon.
1306
01:04:20.880 --> 01:04:23.580
I was hoping to do it right after staff appreciation week
1307
01:04:23.580 --> 01:04:24.750
to say thank you all.
1308
01:04:24.750 --> 01:04:27.960
What's your feedback and who wants to join for next year
1309
01:04:27.960 --> 01:04:30.180
to already get the ball rolling there.
1310
01:04:30.180 --> 01:04:32.160
So thank you for for sharing that.
1311
01:04:32.160 --> 01:04:33.270
So if you'd like to join,
1312
01:04:33.270 --> 01:04:35.320
please look out for those communications.
1313
01:04:36.330 --> 01:04:37.163
Thank you.
1314
01:04:37.163 --> 01:04:41.400
And Liv, could I ask that you add the library staff
1315
01:04:41.400 --> 01:04:43.470
to your 10:00 PM dinner?
1316
01:04:43.470 --> 01:04:44.303
Both the day
1317
01:04:44.303 --> 01:04:47.403
and the how library have people work until midnight?
1318
01:04:48.930 --> 01:04:50.820
They're custodial staff.
1319
01:04:50.820 --> 01:04:51.780
No.
1320
01:04:51.780 --> 01:04:52.731
Staff.
1321
01:04:52.731 --> 01:04:55.590
Like people staffing the circulation desks
1322
01:04:55.590 --> 01:04:56.733
that each library.
1323
01:04:58.020 --> 01:04:59.970
Oh, okay. Great.
1324
01:04:59.970 --> 01:05:03.000
Can we connect after this about that?
1325
01:05:03.000 --> 01:05:05.880
Because I might need to increase the order for the food.
1326
01:05:05.880 --> 01:05:07.320
I'm so glad you brought that up.
1327
01:05:07.320 --> 01:05:09.930
I know that we have like the custodial services
1328
01:05:09.930 --> 01:05:12.870
who clean the libraries for those spaces,
1329
01:05:12.870 --> 01:05:14.340
but no, I was not aware of.
1330
01:05:14.340 --> 01:05:15.173
But that makes sense.
1331
01:05:15.173 --> 01:05:18.090
The circulation desk is open for long periods of time now
1332
01:05:18.090 --> 01:05:19.801
with students being back.
1333
01:05:19.801 --> 01:05:20.820
Yeah.
1334
01:05:20.820 --> 01:05:22.530
Yeah, let's connect.
1335
01:05:22.530 --> 01:05:24.900
Will you reach out to me?
1336
01:05:24.900 --> 01:05:25.733
I will.
1337
01:05:25.733 --> 01:05:27.203
It will probably be tomorrow but I will.
1338
01:05:27.203 --> 01:05:28.291
Okay, perfect.
1339
01:05:28.291 --> 01:05:29.124
Thank you.
1340
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And Liv, can you.../
1341
01:05:31.993 --> 01:05:34.530
'Cause of a note in the chat,
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01:05:34.530 --> 01:05:37.320
we touched a little bit off on next year's planning,
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01:05:37.320 --> 01:05:39.540
but what's happening for people in extension
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01:05:39.540 --> 01:05:40.920
and remote workers this year?
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01:05:40.920 --> 01:05:44.130
There are some virtual activities that they can do?
1346
01:05:44.130 --> 01:05:48.420
Yeah, there's an invest EAP Finding Joy workshop
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01:05:48.420 --> 01:05:49.680
that's completely online.
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01:05:49.680 --> 01:05:53.610
And then we also for the first year maybe in a while
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01:05:53.610 --> 01:05:57.360
or ever, I'm not sure, it's only my second year here,
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01:05:57.360 --> 01:05:58.890
so someone feel free to chime in
1351
01:05:58.890 --> 01:06:00.390
with what you've done in the past,
1352
01:06:00.390 --> 01:06:02.880
but we're having a scavenger hunt for staff
1353
01:06:02.880 --> 01:06:05.280
and there's also a virtual option for that.
1354
01:06:05.280 --> 01:06:08.850
So anyone that has the weird, you know, one week on,
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01:06:08.850 --> 01:06:10.770
one week off or they're fully remote
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01:06:10.770 --> 01:06:13.140
or potentially going around in-person
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01:06:13.140 --> 01:06:16.260
is just not possible for them, we do have a virtual option
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01:06:16.260 --> 01:06:19.203
and everyone will get a prize for that.
1359
01:06:20.700 --> 01:06:25.080
And then for extension staff, I all reached out to Kathy
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01:06:25.080 --> 01:06:27.900
and Katie from extension.
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01:06:27.900 --> 01:06:32.880
And extension full-time employees, I believe,
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01:06:32.880 --> 01:06:36.330
is what we landed on are gonna get a t-shirt
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01:06:36.330 --> 01:06:40.830
with the new UVM logo on it and branding
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01:06:40.830 --> 01:06:43.140
as part of an appreciation effort
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01:06:43.140 --> 01:06:44.280
just because they are far away.
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01:06:44.280 --> 01:06:46.620
So that'll only include offices
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01:06:46.620 --> 01:06:49.080
that are not able to come into Burlington.
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01:06:49.080 --> 01:06:54.080
So I believe that we identified nine offices or 11.
1369
01:06:54.510 --> 01:06:55.893
I'm learning a lot about Cal's extension
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01:06:55.893 --> 01:06:58.170
that I did not know before,
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01:06:58.170 --> 01:06:59.760
but we're trying to figure out how to get t-shirts
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01:06:59.760 --> 01:07:02.043
to those locations for those folks as well.
1373
01:07:04.110 --> 01:07:05.880
And Perri, correct me if I'm wrong,
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01:07:05.880 --> 01:07:09.120
but I thought you had identified a group of people
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01:07:09.120 --> 01:07:11.520
who were not able to attend the luncheon.
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01:07:11.520 --> 01:07:14.523
Have they been covered in our conversation here today?
1377
01:07:20.100 --> 01:07:21.510
She's working with students so she might-
1378
01:07:21.510 --> 01:07:22.343
Yeah, sorry.
1379
01:07:22.343 --> 01:07:23.610
I'm at the front desk at Living Well,
1380
01:07:23.610 --> 01:07:25.740
so I can't really talk too much.
1381
01:07:25.740 --> 01:07:28.740
But basically my understanding
1382
01:07:28.740 --> 01:07:31.470
is that, you know, we have to leave a certain number
1383
01:07:31.470 --> 01:07:34.980
of staff for our staff both in student health counseling
1384
01:07:34.980 --> 01:07:38.250
and those kind of areas to make sure that there's coverage.
1385
01:07:38.250 --> 01:07:41.820
And then there was also the staff and Print and Mail
1386
01:07:41.820 --> 01:07:45.270
who are delivering mail right now at an unprecedented pace.
1387
01:07:45.270 --> 01:07:46.860
They're getting track to trailer loads
1388
01:07:46.860 --> 01:07:48.183
of mail every single day.
1389
01:07:50.700 --> 01:07:51.533
Yeah.
1390
01:07:51.533 --> 01:07:53.700
I'm sorry I couldn't quite track all of that conversation,
1391
01:07:53.700 --> 01:07:57.030
but those were the two concerns I had.
1392
01:07:57.030 --> 01:07:58.530
Okay, thank you.
1393
01:08:02.100 --> 01:08:04.660
I can reach out to Perri and follow up
1394
01:08:05.670 --> 01:08:07.260
since she's at the front desk right now.
1395
01:08:07.260 --> 01:08:08.880
Perri, you don't have to respond to that,
1396
01:08:08.880 --> 01:08:11.460
but I'll send you an email and maybe we can touch base
1397
01:08:11.460 --> 01:08:13.983
to make sure we get those folks covered.
1398
01:08:15.870 --> 01:08:17.033
Thank you.
1399
01:08:19.620 --> 01:08:21.810
I think it's an exciting staff appreciation week.
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01:08:21.810 --> 01:08:24.000
I'm so thankful for everyone's collaboration
1401
01:08:24.000 --> 01:08:25.170
across the board at campus.
1402
01:08:25.170 --> 01:08:27.780
Partners have just been amazing.
1403
01:08:27.780 --> 01:08:29.010
We can always do better
1404
01:08:29.010 --> 01:08:30.960
and we're never gonna make everyone happy,
1405
01:08:30.960 --> 01:08:33.390
but I'm hoping that enough people can find something
1406
01:08:33.390 --> 01:08:35.130
that they're excited about.
1407
01:08:35.130 --> 01:08:38.010
I know also that Jack Dorkey in talent development
1408
01:08:38.010 --> 01:08:40.320
and human resources offered an opportunity
1409
01:08:40.320 --> 01:08:42.360
for a strength finders workshop,
1410
01:08:42.360 --> 01:08:45.030
and that's open to 50 people.
1411
01:08:45.030 --> 01:08:46.800
There's gonna be free lunch.
1412
01:08:46.800 --> 01:08:49.350
Your department does need to pay for the test,
1413
01:08:49.350 --> 01:08:52.080
but I believe that he's still taking submissions for that.
1414
01:08:52.080 --> 01:08:54.510
So if anyone's interested in that
1415
01:08:54.510 --> 01:08:58.860
or you wanna take that back to your areas,
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01:08:58.860 --> 01:09:00.570
definitely send that along.
1417
01:09:00.570 --> 01:09:03.903
It's on the staff appreciation webpage as well.
1418
01:09:04.860 --> 01:09:05.873
Thank you.
1419
01:09:08.307 --> 01:09:10.320
And maybe everyone
1420
01:09:10.320 --> 01:09:13.688
can send that appreciation webpage link to your constituents
1421
01:09:13.688 --> 01:09:16.410
so they know like what's going on.
1422
01:09:16.410 --> 01:09:17.243
Great.
1423
01:09:18.930 --> 01:09:21.453
It was just featured in the inside UVM Today.
1424
01:09:25.650 --> 01:09:29.010
Printed hanging on your water cooler board,
1425
01:09:29.010 --> 01:09:31.500
whatever, talk about it.
1426
01:09:31.500 --> 01:09:32.910
Depending on the size of your group,
1427
01:09:32.910 --> 01:09:35.610
you can send out a meeting planner, you know,
1428
01:09:35.610 --> 01:09:37.653
for a couple of the things.
1429
01:09:39.450 --> 01:09:40.283
All right.
1430
01:09:40.283 --> 01:09:42.750
Meeting adjourned at 1:16.
1431
01:09:42.750 --> 01:09:43.620
Thank you, everyone.
1432
01:09:43.620 --> 01:09:44.760
Great to see you today.
1433
01:09:44.760 --> 01:09:46.203
Enjoy the sunshine.
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01:09:48.804 --> 01:09:52.304
(participants chattering)