Archive for May, 2018

Save the date for the annual Staff Pre-Session: Thursday, August 16. More details will be available later this summer.

The Water Works Challenge is a month-long personal health challenge designed to increase your water consumption.  This activity will be available to track online beginning June 1 within the My Challenges page on your portal – You can record up to 8 glasses per day.  The goal of the challenge is to drink 150 glasses of water by the end of the month to receive credit.  Record your participation online by June 30 or submit the paper Challenge Tracking Form by July 15 to earn 1 Wellness Point!

Beginning Friday, June 1 we will be live in a new applicant tracking system, Page Up. The new system will handle all employment postings (faculty, staff and student) for the university. We are excited about bringing all of our employment opportunities into one system.

We’re encouraging all hiring managers, whether you hire faculty, staff or students, to sign up for a training session to learn about Page Up. We’re offering multiple sessions this week: Sign Up for Page Up. If you can’t make a session this week watch My ACU News for weekly options beginning next week.

Please join us for a farewell reception honoring Lee De Leon, Director of Athletics. There will be a come-and-go reception celebrating Lee’s service to ACU on Friday, June 8, from 1:30-3:00 p.m., in the Wildcat Stadium, Club Level. Dr. Schubert will make a presentation at 2:15 p.m. Lee has accepted a role as Executive Senior Associate Athletics Director/Assistant Vice President for Development at Purdue and will begin his new role on June 25. We hope you’ll take time to come by and visit with Lee and his family.

It is time for Summer Sports Camps  again!  We offer a 15% discount to all ACU Faculty and Staff who register their little Wildcats for sports camps. Please use these discount codes when you register.
Baseball Camp – ACUSTAFFBB
Camp Wildcat – ACUSTAFFCW
Football – ACUSTAFFFB
Girls’ Basketball – ACUSTAFFWBB
Golf – ACUSTAFFGOLF
Boys’ Basketball – ACUSTAFFMBB
Soccer – ACUSTAFFSOC
Softball – ACUSTAFFSB
Tennis – ACUSTAFFT
Track and Field – ACUSTAFFT&F
Volleyball – ACUSTAFFVB

May’s Health Topic is Healthy Workspace.  Self-report each day you do one of the following: (1) take a conference call/meeting standing or walking, (2) eat lunch away from your desk, or (3) take 15 minutes to organize your desk.  Record at least 20 days of doing one of these activities to receive credit for this activity – all tracking for this activity will be done on the My Challenges page.  Record your participation online by May 31 to earn 1 Wellness Point!

The Campus Store has a limited number of iPad’s (5th generation) on sale starting at $269.  Please see the store for storage size and color availability.

Faculty: Textbook requirements for the fall term should be submitted to The Campus Store through www.facultyenlight.com. Please contact Christiana Cha at textinfo@acu.edu if you need assistance. Thank you for your continued partnership!

The Mail Services’ front window will be closed from 12-1 p.m. during the summer months. If there’s a need for any departmental mail to be sent out between the hours of 12-1 p.m., please knock on Mail Services’ door, and an employee will assist you with your shipment.  If you have questions, please contact Jennifer Gillotti at ext 2865.

The sun is out and this is a great time to remember that a Preventative Skin Exam will earn you 1 point on the Wellness Portal toward your medical discount for next year. In addition to getting your exam, remember to apply and reapply sunscreen often!

To see which sunscreens Consumer Reports ranked best for 2018 and get tips on using sunscreen correctly, visit this WebMD article.