"The measure of a Life is its Service."
Today@Sam will post timely messages of concern to SHSU employees
and students. Notices should be mailed to Today@Sam.edu. Submissions should include a contact
name and phone number.
Please encourage all new benefits-eligible faculty, staff, and graduate student employees in your department to attend a group orientation session on or before their first active duty date. This would also apply to any employees who were not benefit eligible in the Spring, and are now returning to a benefit eligible status in the Fall. Time does not normally allow for individual sessions. The paperwork completed at orientation includes the documents necessary to initiate an employee's payroll setup.
Please note: An employee can not be paid unless the approved Payroll Action Form (PAF) and required benefit and employment documents are completed and received by the Human Resources Department before the appropriate payroll deadline. A list of the Payroll deadlines is available at http://www.shsu.edu/~pay_www/info/action-form.html .
Please make sure that each benefits-eligible faculty and graduate student employee is aware of his/her eligibility status. Each benefits-eligible faculty and graduate student employee, who has not received a benefits packet, should obtain a packet from the Human Resources Department (Estill Building, Rm. 334). In addition to the other documents necessary for payroll setup, insurance enrollment forms must be completed during the employee's initial period of eligibility.
Under current state legislation, there is a 90 day waiting period before part-time faculty, staff, and graduate student new hires are eligible to participate in the health insurance plans. Following the initial insurance enrollment period, the next opportunity to apply for insurance coverage (without a qualifying life event) would be during the next Summer Enrollment period. Additional information is also available concerning Graduate Student Insurance Eligibility and Enrollment at http://www.shsu.edu/~hrd_www/benefits/documents/GRADINFO.doc .
If you have any questions, please contact your area Human Resources Department representative as follows:
Cynthia Bennett -- extension 4-1064
hrd_cab@shsu.edu
Cyndi Wilson -- extension 4-1071
hrd_ckw@shsu.edu
Jenny Zimont -- extension 4-4415
hrd_jlz@shsu.edu
David White -- extension 4-1065
hrd_dlw@shsu.edu
Labor Day – September 1, 2008
Thanksgiving – November 27-28, 2008
Christmas – December 23-31, 2008
New Year’s – January 1-2, 2009
MLK – January 19, 2009
Spring Recess – March 13, 2009
Memorial Day – May 25, 2009
The following days may be observed in lieu of any holiday on which the University is required to be open and staffed to conduct the public business.
Rosh Hashanah – September 30, 2008-October 1, 2008
Yom Kippur – October 9, 2008
Cesar Chavez Day – March 31, 2009
Good Friday – April 10, 2009
This page maintained by SHSU's Communications Office
Director: To Be Named
Assistant Director: Julia May
Writer: Jennifer Gauntt
Located in the 115 Administration Building
Telephone: 936.294.1836; Fax: 936.294.1834
Please send comments, corrections, news tips to Today@Sam.edu.
Phillip Lyons, professor of criminal justice, was interviewed by the Bryan-College Station Eagle in a story discussing the statewide increase in the use of tasers by police departments.
Donald Freeman, chair and professor of economics and international business, was quoted in a number of media outlets, including the LA Times, New York Times and Washington Post, regarding his 1998 study, titled "Beer and the business cycle," that examined sales from 1955 to 1994. In it, he says that economic problems have no effect on alcohol sales.
Larry Hoover, professor of criminal justice, was interviewed by Houston Channel 11 for a two-part series on the Houston Police Department's Crime Response Unit. Hoover said such blanket enforcement tactics can reduce crime by 20 percent, but there is a danger of overzealous policing infringing on constitutional rights.
Friday, Oct. 10
Saturday, Oct. 11
Sunday, Oct. 12
"The measure of a Life is its Service."