Announcements

Nominations open for UC Women’s Initiative until Oct. 14

Nominations are now open for the 2021 UC Women's Initiative for Professional Development (UC WI). Please submit nominations by Oct. 14, 2020.

As in the past, ANR will be sponsoring women academics and staff to participate in the 2021 program. UC WI is committed to enabling the full participation, success and advancement of woman-identified professionals at the University. The program is open to all who support and are committed to this mission.

The program is designed to

• Cultivate a professional network that spans the UC system
• Provide access to top UC leaders — women and men — to learn about their diverse leadership approaches and journeys
• Strengthen skills and confidence through hands-on practice with a range of tools in the areas of:
• Professional development and impact
• Strategic relationship building
• Developing and delivering a compelling narrative regarding one's professional accomplishments and vision
• Negotiating at work
• Peer coaching

The ideal participant:

• Is mid-career faculty, staff or academic employee
• Has demonstrated potential for advancement
• Supports woman-identified professionals and seeks to learn concepts that improve their effectiveness at work and hear about the career journeys of established UC leade

Selected candidates will participate in a cohort that meets for four online sessions during: 

• January-March 2021, or
• April – June 2021
• For exact cohort dates/workshop sessions, see last 3 pages of this document.

Program overview:

Six cohorts of 30 participants each with representatives from every UC location, come together for interactive sessions jointly led by a Coro Northern California facilitator and a UC Facilitator. UC facilitators are past graduates of the program who share their experience and expertise and add a UC perspective. The final session of each cohort program will be a combined capstone event that allows participants to make systemwide connections.

Nomination instructions

Please use the nomination form at https://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/5759587/2020-2021-UC-WI-Nomination-Form.

1. Nominate someone, yourself, or more than one person.
   • You can nominate more than one person without having to fill out a new form each time.
2. A letter of recommendation is suggested but not required.
3. Combine – if there are multiple letters of recommendation – into a single PDF.
4. When prompted foranFAU account – enter “999”
   • Once candidates are selected the Learning & Development Coordinator will send the proper accounting information.

If you have additional files, please send them to ucwomensinitiative@ucop.edu. 

If you are interested in participating in this program, please talk to your supervisor. Supervisors are asked to send in nominations by 11:59 p.m. on Oct. 14, 2020. Late or incomplete nominations will not be considered. 

The program is a collaboration between the UC Systemwide Advisory Committee on the Status of Women and UC Human Resources, and is delivered by CORO, a nonprofit leadership-development organization that has worked with UC for the past decade. UC President Napolitano supports and partially funds the program. ANR will cover registration fees and reimburse travel expenses and half the lodging for those selected.

If you have questions about the program, please contact Jodi Azulai.

 

 

 

 

Show your impact via UC Delivers

UC Delivers communicates your project's measured outcome for your clientele around learning and action and how these contribute to broader UC ANR condition changes and public value. It now displays in a blog format, which makes it easier to share.

We need your stories! Find UC Delivers in your UC ANR portal under Blogs. Click on it to get started and follow this template for structuring your blog post. When you are satisfied with your post, click "make this post live." Since this is a moderated blog, it will be reviewed by blog manager Kit Alviz (kit.alviz@ucop.edu) for content and formatting before it goes live.

UC Delivers can help you…

• …get recognized! 

Blogging on UC Delivers shares the impact of your extension work, positioning you as a leader. UC Delivers posts are shared with UC ANR senior leaders, county directors, Development Services and Strategic Communications, who share the examples of public value with federal funders, legislators, UC regents and potential donors. UC Delivers is featured on UC ANR's About webpage. Stories are also posted on the national Land Grant Impacts database, which is the source of stories shared with members of Congress to show how Americans benefit from investing in agricultural research and extension.

• …grow your network! 

Write a UC Delivers to increase your reach to new and existing clientele via social media. Easily share your UC Delivers on platforms like Twitter and Facebook by clicking “Share” on the upper right side of the blog, and use the new social media summary from your blog post. Also, follow the UC Delivers blog to see your colleagues' outcomes and connect with them.

• …strengthen your merit/promotion! 

UC Delivers are recognized as popular articles in the UC ANR merit and promotion process.

UC opts out of payroll tax deferral

On Aug. 8, 2020, President Trump signed an executive order for U.S. employers to have the option to defer the collection of employee payroll taxes through Dec. 31, 2020.

Two weeks ago, the Internal Revenue Service issued guidance on this optional program. This program would call for the OASDI Social Security taxes deferred from the employees' wages through Dec. 31, 2020, to be repaid by the employees during the January through April pay period of 2021 in addition to their regular OASDI Social Security withholdings for that period. 

After this guidance from the IRS and the National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO), and in consultation with the controllers at every UC location, UCOP has decided that the University of California system should not participate in this optional program at this time.

 

Electronic Records Management webinar Oct. 1

Are you concerned about all of the things you are using to create and receive records while you are working from home? Do you know what you need to manage and how?

The UC Records Management Committee is celebrating Electronic Records Day by hosting the event “Electronic Records Management – Now, More Than Ever!”

The hour-long event will take place Oct. 1 at 10 a.m. Panelists will include experts in archives, records management, privacy and information security. There will be tools to help people with management of their electronic records. After the presentations, speakers will address questions from the audience.

The experts will focus on their areas of expertise in electronic records management. Each area will provide a 10-minute presentation.

You are making history today!

Beyond newsletters, minutes and reports, it's recorded in your email, texts, webpages, chats, and much more. The University Archives strives to collect and preserve this information for tomorrow's researchers and historians. Marlayna Christensen will share tips and strategies for managing and preparing your records for the archives. 

• Marlayna Christensen has been with UC since 1999 and the university archivist at UC San Diego since 2016. As university archivist, she coordinates with offices and organizations across the campus to collect analog and digital records documenting the achievements, challenges, events, and people at UC San Diego, ranging from top administrators to student organizations.

What is Electronic Records Management and what is in it for you?

Members of the UC Records Management Committee will provide some thoughts and tools to help you.

• Kelley Walker is information practices coordinator and campus records manager, UC Davis Office of the Campus Counsel and concurrently serves as interim chief administrative officer for the Vice Chancellor's Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion since September 2019.

• Carolyn Tuft is the assistant director for business intelligence, UC San Francisco Real Estate. She promotes good information governance practices to better manage one of UCSF's most valuable assets, information. Prior to this role, she was the senior digital project manager. As a PM, she facilitated moving to paper lite work processes in preparation for moving to open plan workspaces. 

• Laurie Sletten is the UCOP records manager. She convenes the UC Records Management Committee, which by policy coordinates the ongoing systemwide development and management of policies and procedures that promote sound, efficient, and economical records management in alignment with current laws and industry best practices for the university.

Privacy issues of the day

The rapid development of large-scale programs to address the pandemic and attendant alterations to daily life and work prompts the need for careful consideration of the use and protection of personal data along the way. Join us to discuss the privacy issues of the day and learn about the practices that should guide program design. 

• Pegah K. Parsi, is the campus privacy officer for UC San Diego, where she manages a portfolio of privacy initiatives related to employees, students, applicants, alumni and research participants.

Protecting our digital resources

Protection of records is fundamental to supporting the UC mission. With growing threats from cyber-espionage, cyber-crime, hacktivism and insider threats, it's important the UC community is vigilant in the protection of our data assets.

• David Rusting is the chief information security officer at UC Office of the President, where he leads the collaboration, development and implementation of information security strategy and initiatives across the UC system.

Register in advance for this meeting at https://UCOP.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYld--oqzgjGNGkd4pwjGBLYsLZuQFDmoAp.

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

Water institute calls for research proposals

The California Institute for Water Resources invites submission of proposals to be considered for funding that will begin March 1, 2021.

This year, proposals are requested in the Junior Investigator category only. Funding is for up to two years. One-year proposals may request up to a total of $15,000, and two-year proposals may request up to $25,000 with a maximum of $15,000 in a given year.

Please note that the funding period may fluctuate and is contingent on state and federal budget appropriations. 

The 2020-21 water resources research proposals are due Oct. 30, 2020, at 5 p.m.

Download the full RFP and budget worksheets (Word or PDF).

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