Wednesday, June 29, 2022

submitted by vachta@augsburg.edu

We’ve reorganized content on the HR website in an effort to improve clarity and make important tools easier to find.

Forms, policies, staff performance reviews, and payroll information can be found in the “Employee Toolkit”.

IT and HR are working closely together to build data-driven secure forms and approval workflows, reducing the risk of clerical errors, increasing data security, and improving the experience of employees and supervisors. In our ongoing efforts to streamline and go paperless many of our paper and electronic forms are being converted into Webdocs Forms which allows the forms to be saved directly to the employee’s electronic personnel records. If you receive emails from “Augsburg Online Forms” (onlineforms@augsburg.edu) they are being generated by these Webdocs Forms approval paths.

We are in the process of creating and posting new content, especially with the upcoming rollout of SmartRecruiters. The HR team looks forward to providing the most important information and tools for Augsburg employees in one central location!

If you have any questions or feedback please contact hr@augsburg.edu!

Employee Toolkit

submitted by shafer@augsburg.edu

Catherina Kipper, URGO’s Prehealth Professions Specialist, will be returning to the University of MN, having accepted a position as an Assistant Director of Advising in the College of Liberal Arts. In the seven plus years that Catherina worked at Augsburg she established a stellar prehealth science advising program and assisted countless students and alums with their applications and interviews to various prehealth science programs. She also served as the advisor to the newly created and active Pre-Dentistry and Pre-PA clubs.

Students sought Catherina out because she provided honest and thorough advice about how to be a competitive prehealth applicant. She is particularly gifted as a writing coach, painstakingly reading multiple drafts of statements and secondary applications, always helping students find their own voices. Because of her commitment and knowledge, more Augsburg students and alums gained admissions to prehealth programs and more of them had multiple offers.

All of her staff and faculty colleagues immediately noticed her professionalism, deep knowledge of the health professions, dedication to student advancement, cross cultural competency and generous nature. As the only other staff member in URGO, Catherina accepted multiple responsibilities to ensure that the office functioned with a high quality of service–always her standard.

We thank her for her dedicated service to Augsburg and wish her the best in her new position.

Please join us on Thursday, July 7th in Hagfors 101 for cake and well wishes from 2:00 to 4:00 pm.

submitted by ajayi@augsburg.edu

Hello,
My name is Asma Noor. I am a student researcher at Augsburg University, and I am currently seeking Black individuals who are comfortable sharing their attitudes on help-seeking and mental health to participate in a psychology research study.

I am interested in hearing the personal experiences from your community. The study involves a 60-minute one-on-one audio Zoom or in-person (if comfortable) interview. This project has been approved by Augsburg University’s Institutional Review Board (IRB-#2022-20-03).

You are eligible to participate if you are between
1. 18-29 years old,
2. identify as Black American,
3. have lived in Minnesota for at least the past two years.

This study is confidential and completely voluntary. You may choose to withdraw from the study at any time.

Participants will receive a $25 e-gift card for participating in this study. If you are interested in participating, please complete this brief screening form: https://bit.ly/3bicy49.

Feel free to contact me directly at noora@augsburg.edu or my research advisor, Dr. Alex Ajayi, at ajayi@augsburg.edu. Please consider forwarding this to other individuals who may meet the criteria for participation. Thank you for your consideration!

submitted by vachta@augsburg.edu

Staff needing to complete a 90-Day or Annual performance review can initiate their review through the Employee Toolkit on the Human Resources website at https://sites.augsburg.edu/hr/employees/performance-reviews/

Performance reviews will no longer be facilitated by the Hirezon platform.

The performance review form automatically saves your work every 2 minutes. If you need to access a form you previously saved simply launch the performance review form and choose “Load a saved form”. Performance reviews are being conducted through Augsburg’s Webdocs Forms – emails generated by Webdocs forms will originate from “Augsburg Online Forms” (onlineforms@augsburg.edu).

Human Resources is refining and retooling the annual review process and looks forward to robust campus-wide staff annual reviews in the summer of 2023.

Staff performance reviews