This week’s Tennessee Tech Today radio show: https://www.tntech.edu/news/files/TNTech_Today_Show_7-24-20.mp3
This week’s Tennessee Tech Today includes Michael Aikens explaining a $300,000 CARES Act grant for the TCRI CARES project; President Phil Oldham, Pingen Chen and Mohan Rao commenting on the EV Charging Station project; and, in-coming freshman Hailey Jennings and her mom Natalie talking about attending a SOAR session on campus.
Effective May 1, 2020, TN Tech policy 803 Email Use was published. The purpose of this policy is not only to detail the appropriate usage of University email but also to add an additional layer of security to help protect the privacy of our students, employees, and University data. Specifically, this policy prohibits the “bulk forwarding of *tntech.edu emails to personal or private email addresses”
Examples of Violation
Creating a rule that sends your tntech.edu emails to another organization or to a personal address.
Forwarding student worker emails to a student email or vice versa.
Exceptions
Managers may request to have the email for individuals in certain job roles who have left the University or have retired to be forwarded to another email within the University.
Please note that all email forwarding rules violating this policy will be removed on 7/30/2020.
For clarification or questions, please contact the Information Security Office at ociso@tntech.edu.
The Search Committee seeks constructive feedback from the campus community as it relates to the candidate’s qualifications for the Associate Vice President of Facilities and Business Services position. The three candidates are:
Charles Roberts – Interviewed Tuesday, July 7, 2020
Brian Wilcox – Interviewed Wednesday, July 8, 2020
Daniel Papay – Interviewed Tuesday, July 14, 2020
Please complete the survey by July 24, 2020 at https://tntech.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_7PT8Xl7PVBytZzL
Here is this week’s Tennessee Tech Today radio show: https://www.tntech.edu/news/files/TNTech_Today_Show_7-17-20.mp3
This week’s Tennessee Tech Today includes provost Lori Bruce discussing her lecture that reached more than 14,000 students and faculty world-wide; and, Tennessee Tech alum Scott Stallings talks about life on the PGA Tour, his mentor Bobby Nichols and a life-changing physical transformation.
Campus signage designed for the health and safety prevention of COVID-19 is now available for download. You may download and print the standard signs for your area. Custom signage is also available. https://www.tntech.edu/return/signage.php
Here is this week’s Tennessee Tech Today radio show: https://www.tntech.edu/news/files/TNTech_Today_Show_7-10-20.mp3
This week’s Tennessee Tech Today includes David Mullinax, director of campus recreation, discussing the opening of the Marc L. Burnett Fitness and Recreation Center and Golden Eagle head football coach Dewayne Alexander talking about how COVID-19 has impacted the Tech football team.
Virtual Engineering a Future Camp Activities are FREE this year!
Engineering a Future (EAF) is a virtual Summer Camp for girls rising into the 8th or 9th grade in the state of Tennessee. The camp is designed for girls who are interested in becoming problem solvers and creative thinkers. Due to the Pandemic, EAF is being held virtually for the first time. It is a neat opportunity for young women to spend time exploring the ever-changing and exciting field of Engineering. TN Tech faculty, their students, and professional engineers will lead the activities. This year’s experiences will revolve around space exploration.
Sessions include Cyber Puzzles, Missions to Mars and Surfing the Stars, and are offered July 10 through the 24th.
All participants will be required to have access to an internet-ready device in order to join the activities.
Time is of the essence since one of the activities begins July 10th!
This camp is sponsored by NASA and the Society of Women Engineers.
Faculty, staff, and students are invited to a question and answer session with the candidates for the AVP of Facilities position.
The Zoom link to attend the July 14, 2020, session is below.
Tuesday, July 14, 2020
https://tntech.zoom.us/j/91291858873?pwd=ZGtUNFhRVUE5RGhrbUJidWt5cUI3dz09
Meeting ID: 912 9185 8873
Password: 574293
The red zone parking lot across from Pennebaker Hall is reserved for orientation and SOAR guests this summer. We ask faculty, staff and students to use other parking zones on campus during orientation programming.
In addition to the Fraud, Waste, or Abuse reporting form, Tennessee Tech also has a form on Internal Audit’s website for confidentially reporting complaints about accounting, internal control, auditing matters, code of conduct, and other related issues that are NOT fraud, waste, or abuse.
Complainants remain COMPLETELY ANONYMOUS to Internal Audit unless the last section of the form is completed with contact information.
General complaints received on this form are routed to the appropriate campus departments for follow-up. The form can be submitted online or completed, printed, and mailed to Internal Audit, PO Box 5154, Cookeville, TN 38505.
https://tf.tntech.edu/machform/view.php?id=322625
https://www.tntech.edu/internalaudit/pdf/generalcomplaints/gencomp.pdf