Sick Leave Bank for temporary faculty.
NIU has established a Sick Leave Bank program in which temporary Faculty represented by the Union Professionals of Illinois are eligible to participate.
Participation in the Sick Leave Bank program requires an employee to donate at least one day of sick leave. For employees on less than 100% appointment, one day is determined on the basis of their appointment percentage. Donations will be taken from the 25 days of non-accumulative sick leave granted at the beginning of the academic year. Participation in the program is then established for the current academic year. Consistent with the Illinois Sick Leave Bank Act, the Sick Leave Bank program is designed to assist NIU employees who face major health crises and who have exhausted all other available benefits.
To register for the NIU Sick Leave Bank program for the current academic year, please complete and submit this form by Oct. 31, 2022. If you have questions regarding the NIU Sick Leave Bank program contact Payroll at payroll@niu.edu.
Campus Dining would love your feedback!
Campus Dining values your feedback and looks forward to the opportunity to grow from it. If you're able to take a moment to complete a brief survey regarding your most recent experience at one of their residential dining or retail dining locations. Thank you in advance.
Human Resource Services offers Microsoft Office training.
Due to the overwhelming demand for Office 365 training offered by Human Resources Services (HRS) and trainer Cindy Kozumplik, additional Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint training has been added to the remaining calendar year. Find the full training schedule and/or register for a session.
There are also new courses coming for 2023 with topics in Outlook, Teams and SharePoint, along with some advanced topics for Word, Excel and PowerPoint. If there is a particular area you are interested in learning in these topics, please send to Training@niu.edu.
Cindy will continue to hold office hours in October providing individual assistance in Microsoft
as needed.
We look forward to learning with you!
DoIT to implement Employee Account Lifecycle improvements.
At NIU, we create and store data that is vitally important to protect, including student and prospective student information, health records, financial data, employee information, and much more. That data, the individuals it represents, and the systems that store that data, are the entities we strive to secure. In years past, our ability to protect those entities has been somewhat limited by the internal business processes controlling how long an employee that separates from NIU has access to data and information systems.
Since 2019, we have been implementing improvements to these business processes for various employee types. The resulting business process for the automatic removal of account access of separated employees can be found at the Identity and Access Control webpage. We are now ready to implement the updated faculty employee account lifecycle.
The new account access business process for faculty employees will take effect Oct. 12, 2022 and will impact past and future separated faculty accounts. Please note, that while retiree accounts are not impacted in this change, they will be part for a later change which will be communicated when ready. Thank you for understanding the need for implementing this internal business process improvement. Please review the Identity and Access Control webpage for further information. If you have additional questions, please contact the Service Desk at servicedesk@niu.edu or 815-753-8100.
Faculty Senate seeks Faculty Personnel Advisor.
Faculty Senate is seeking a faculty personnel advisor to serve a three-year term, consisting of the remainder of 2022-23, as well as all of 2023-24 and 2024-25.
The faculty personnel advisor’s role includes such activities as the following:
- Advise faculty members about the personnel policies and procedures within the university and the courses of action open to them.
- Advise and assist faculty members who are experiencing difficulties with the
personnel process.
- Advise and assist faculty members dissatisfied with personnel decisions.
- Observe the workings of the personnel process and recommend needed changes or clarification.
- Advise faculty members pursuing the resolution of other concerns or issues.
For additional information, including a summary of anticipated workload, see former FPA Steven Howell’s 2021-22 Summary of Service.
The advisor must be a full-time faculty member, have experience with the personnel process at various levels and be familiar with the administrative structure and operations of the university. The advisor shall receive an annual stipend equal to one month of the median salary of all tenured professors. For a more detailed description of the faculty personnel advisor role, see Faculty Senate Bylaws, Article 13.
Interested faculty members should send a letter of self-nomination describing their interest and qualifications to Ismael Montana, president of the Faculty Senate, montana@niu.edu, by Friday, Oct. 7. Questions should be directed to Ismael Montana at montana@niu.edu.
NIU Football offers ticket deal for faculty and staff.
For the remainder of the home NIU Football season faculty and staff can buy one ticket and get another for free! Bring a family member or friend to Huskie Stadium this season! Use code "NIUSTAFF" when ordering tickets online or show your NIU Faculty/Staff ID at the ticket window. For more information call 815-753-7225.
