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2020 Final Comp Time Payout Information
Human Resources
We aware that many department’s non-exempt employees have not been able to schedule their comp time prior to June 30, 2020. Tech Policy 644 states that employees agree to accrue comp time in lieu of overtime and Tennessee Tech will review budget availability and constraints in all salary decisions. After much discussion, the decision was made to carry forward all non-exempt employee accrued comp time balances. As a result, employees will not receive a payout for comp time in July. gpalmer@tntech.edu | (931) 372-3712
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Premium Holiday and Dental Discounts
Human Resources (Payroll) would like to share with you information regarding your paycheck for May.
Premium Holiday – Earlier this year Benefits Administration (BA) recommended and the State Insurance Committee voted to give all active state and higher education employees a premium holiday for June 2020 coverage. This means there will be no deduction for the health insurance premium this May.
Dental Discounts for MetLife and Cigna Members – In response to COVID-19, Cigna and MetLife are giving a dental premium discount to enrolled members. MetLife will give a 25% discount for April and May coverage and Cigna will give a 25% discount for March, April, and May coverage. Both discounts will impact May paychecks. Benefits Administration has sent emails to all enrolled members for whom they had email addresses in Edison. Member emails included a letter and a flier with a chart showing members’ discounts.
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Tennessee Tech Alumni Book Club to read Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell
For June, the Tennessee Tech Alumni Book Club will read Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know by Malcolm Gladwell. The Alumni Book Club is open to anyone with a Tech connection including faculty, staff, students, alumni, and friends. If you’d like to participate, please join our Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/254358412421446
We’ll discuss Part 1 on June 5. Happy reading!
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Eagle Works Rural Reimagined Award Student Spotlight: Annalicia Larsen
The Center for Rural Innovation held its annual Eagle Works competition on April 18, 2020, and a special congratulations goes to Agriculture student Annalicia Larsen for winning the Rural Reimagined award of $2,500 for the innovative idea that could most impact rural communities! Annalicia’s “Working Women Design Co.” provides pants specifically designed for working women that are both functional and trendy. Annalicia found her inspiration to design pants through her struggle to find ones that she liked to wear while working on her family’s farm growing up. She states, “Just because I’m in Agriculture doesn’t mean I can’t have cute and trendy clothes on. Women have always been in Agriculture, but it’s getting more popular! My overall goal is to serve these women and give them clothes they love to work in.” Rural Reimagined sees a bright future of impacting rural through Working Women Design Co. Wings up, Annalicia! Stay tuned for upcoming stories and updates!
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Apply Now to be a Fall 2020 Peer Mentor!
The deadline to apply to be a Fall 2020 Peer Mentor is quickly approaching, don’t miss your chance to apply! Visit our website at tntech.edu/connections for more information and to apply.
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Crawford Alumni Center to host 90s Trivia LIVE on Facebook May 29 at 7 p.m.
The next Crawford Alumni Center Trivia Night will be May 29 at 7 p.m. CDT on our Facebook page, and the theme is the 90s! Our host will be dressed in her 90s best, so put on some M.C. Hammer pants and grab a Trapper Keeper to keep score! Be sure to follow us on Facebook for the latest information about upcoming trivia nights: https://www.facebook.com/tntechalumni
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Center for Rural Innovation and LBRC Fight COVID-19 Rural Economic Injury
The Center for Rural Innovation (TCRI) is proud to announce its partnership with the Local Business Resource Collective (LBRC), a COVID-19 intervention taskforce with a mission to save small businesses and jobs in the rural Upper Cumberland region. The LBRC is a partnership between the TCRI, the Cookeville Small Business Development Center, the Biz Foundry, and WCTE Upper Cumberland PBS. TCRI Director Michael Aikens states, “We want the entrepreneurs of the Upper Cumberland to know the LBRC is a one-stop-shop to receive no-cost resources to help their businesses survive and thrive throughout the pandemic and beyond.” One free resource the LBRC offers is themed weekly community Zoom calls where business owners can interact with subject matter experts from Tech and the community to discuss topics surrounding remote working strategies, continuity and contingency planning, legal matters, finance, and more.
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Tennessee Tech Today this week
Here is this week’s Tennessee Tech Today radio show: https://www.tntech.edu/news/files/TNTech_Today_Show_5-22-20.mp3
This week’s Tennessee Tech Today includes President Phil Oldham addressing the campus returning for the Fall 2020 semester; Tech alum Bobby Wilson talking about being named executive director of the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency; and Tech alum Sam Matson discussing his appearance on Jeopardy.
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Tornado and COVID-19 Experience Project
The Tennessee Tech University Archives is documenting, preserving, and making accessible the experiences of the university community and the Upper Cumberland following the March 3rd tornadoes and during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Archives is already collecting the official response of the university to the pandemic and tornado, but the nature of such records neglects the personal experiences of people like you! Future researchers will value documentation of the day-to-day lives of people during the pandemic, no matter how mundane it might feel now.
The Archives encourages students, faculty, staff, alumni, and residents of the Upper Cumberland to submit written, visual, audio, or video documentation of their experiences during the pandemic. There are no requirements for style, spelling, or grammar. The Archives will accept materials in any language. Participants are welcome to document what they wish as it relates to their life following the tornado and during the pandemic.
To learn more and submit, see: https://www.tntech.edu/library/archives-project.php
Para español: https://www.tntech.edu/library/pdf/archives-project-spanish-version.pdf
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STEM at HOME
STEM AT HOME is a new initiative to deliver weekly STEM activities that parents/guardians can use to help engage their students during the current school closures.
This week’s STEM AT HOME activity set “A Breath of Fresh Air” is now available for download here: https://www.tntech.edu/education/stem/family-community.php
This activity set includes activities for K-8th students!
Be sure to tag us using #STEMATHOME and @TNTechSTEM so we can share some of the work your students are doing.
Every week we also feature a book reading by faculty, staff, students and community members. If you would be interested to volunteer as a featured reader, please contact Carlos Galindo at cgalindo@tntech.edu
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Tennessee Tech Today
Here is this week’s Tennessee Tech Today radio show: https://www.tntech.edu/news/files/TNTech_Today_Show_5-15-20.mp3
This week’s Tennessee Tech Today includes Tech alumna Amy New, who was recently named the CEO of Cookeville-Putnam County Chamber of Commerce; Dr. Ismail Fidan, Caplenor Award winner; and Commencement video celebration messages from Gov. Bill Lee, Putnam County Mayor Randy Porter, Cookeville Mayor Ricky Shelton and Tech President Phil Oldham.
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College of Business 2020 Faculty and Staff Awards
The College of Business is pleased to announce their 2020 faculty and staff award recipients. Winners include: Cindy Gates, Outstanding Staff Award; Dr. Stuart Wells, Kinslow Award for Excellence in Teaching; Dr. Mark Melichar, Jordan-Wagner Award for Excellence in Research; Dr. Christine Miller, Lifetime Achievement Award; Dr. Susan Wells, Excellence in Service Award; and Dr. Curtis Armstrong, Excellence in Overall Performance Award. The awards established in 1975 by the College of Business Administration Foundation, now recognized as the College of Business Advisory Board, recognize outstanding contributions to business education by the faculty and staff of the College of Business at Tennessee Tech University.
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Crawford Alumni Center to host 70s Trivia LIVE on May 15 at 7 p.m.
Do you still love to play Toss Across? Does the sight of a harvest gold appliance fill you with nostalgia? Then this Crawford Alumni Center Trivia Night is for you! Join us on Friday, May 15 at 7 pm CDT on our Facebook page for 1970s Pop Culture trivia! The host will be dressed in her disco best, so feel free to pull out those bell-bottoms, dress for the decade, and share photos of your costume while you play live trivia with us! https://www.facebook.com/tntechalumni
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Office of Research requests feedback on its resources and services
The Office of Research provides resources and offers services, guidance, and training in an effort to promote, support, and facilitate research and creative activities at Tennessee Tech. We would like your feedback via an online survey to determine how we can better serve the needs of faculty and staff on campus. Efforts have been made to ensure anonymity of respondents, and responses are completely anonymous unless you chose to add personally identifiable information to a comment. Please go to the link below to complete the short survey by May 27. Your feedback is appreciated!
https://tntech.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8wc132BA4FCLn7f
If you have any questions or have difficulty accessing the survey, please contact Jamie Murdock (jlmurdock@tntech.edu).
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Project AWAKEN May 2020 Newsletter
Congratulations on finishing spring semester! The newest Project AWAKEN newsletter is now available at https://www.tntech.edu/awaken/newsletters.php.
Click to read about everything that Project AWAKEN did this semester. Best wishes for a healthy & safe summer!