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Protect yourself this coming flu season and come get your Flu Shot Tuesday, October 17th during your lunch break from 12-1pm in the Hunter Welcome Center (Room 254)!

Please join us Oct. 31 starting at 9 a.m. in the Nancy and Ray Hansen Reading Commons as Brown Library partners with the Department of Language and Literature for Cover2Cover – a marathon-style reading of Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan. Stop by, listen, and grab some candy! Each reader will take a 15-minute shift until the entire book is finished. Students, staff, and faculty readers are welcome! If you are interested in being a reader, please sign up here!

The Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) requires employers to file annual reports with the Internal Revenue Service and the U.S. Department of Labor on the status of their various employee benefit plans and to provide employees with a summary of those reports, called a Summary Annual Report. Here is the Full Report filed with the Internal Revenue Service for ACU’s group health plan.

ACU is excited to offer Medicare 101 Sessions to our employees again this year! We are hosting two onsite sessions with a Medicare expert, Tamela Southan, who will be able to answer any questions you may have regarding Medicare, how it works, how Medicare and ACU insurance work together, and how they don’t. All employees who attend one of the sessions will also get a complimentary one-on-one session with Tamela to answer any follow-up questions you may have. Please feel free to invite your spouse to this meeting as well.

 Session 1: Thursday, 10/19, 11 a.m.-12 a.m.

 Session 2: Thursday, 10/19, 2 p.m.-3 p.m.

Both sessions will be held in the LYNAY meeting room 211 in the Hunter Welcome Center.

The information shared in these meetings can be made available for those unable to attend.

All benefits-eligible employees will need to complete their benefits open enrollment for 2024 the week of November 6^th – 10^th. HR staff members will be available that week in the computer lab on the top floor of the Brown Library, Monday-Thursday 8:00-5:00.

All employees enrolled in ACU benefits are encouraged to attend an informational benefits meeting. These meetings will be scheduled during the week of October 23^rd and 30^th. Be on the lookout for additional details.

Offices will close at 4 p.m. Friday, Oct. 13, to allow faculty and staff to attend the Homecoming Carnival at 5 p.m. on the lawn of the Hardin Administration Building and Campus Court. Please display appropriate signage at your offices to notify students and visitors in advance. Carnival registration this year is cashless; you can pre-register children online.

You’re invited to celebrate the beautifully renovated Boone Family Theatre on Thursday, Oct. 19, at 7 p.m., in Boone Family Theatre. There will be a special concert featuring Scott (‘ 81) and Caryl (McGlothlin’ 82) Parker of the group Caryl Mack. Following this performance by talented ACU alumni and student performers, you can tour this amazing facility. Please RSVP online by Monday, Oct. 16.

Multicultural Week, November 13-17, 2023, is an opportunity to celebrate the different ways that diversity is manifested throughout our campus. This joint initiative of the Office of International Students & Visiting Scholars and the Office of Multicultural Affairs is honoring multicultural initiatives & international education by hosting and promoting a variety of events on campus. With that, we would like to invite the ACU community to be a part of creating this experience with us! All departments and student organizations are invited to submit a proposal using this link provided for an event they would like to host as a part of Multicultural Week. Once approved, our coordinating team will include your event on the general calendar which will then be published and promoted across campus. All event proposals are due by Sunday, October 22nd.

Join us for a training opportunity in October to review p-card and travel card expense reporting processes in Concur. The Travel Office will be available to answer any questions you have after the session. If you are not able to attend the campus training sessions and would like to schedule training for your department, please email travel@acu.edu to schedule a training session. The following training sessions will be held in the Lynay Classroom in the Hunter Welcome Center Room 211:

Concur CBS P-Card Training | Wednesday 10/25/2023 | 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm

Concur Travel Training | Tuesday 10/31/2023 | 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm

ACU IT is hosting its next surplus computer auction on Saturday, Nov. 4, in Hart Auditorium. The auction begins at 1 p.m., but doors open for bidder registration at 11 a.m. Follow our Facebook page for additional details at facebook.com/ACUauction. Come join us for the fun, and who knows, you may get a sweet deal on a computer.