2017 Holiday Payday Information

December 8, 2017

Christmas break is around the corner and to ensure the correct payment of your wages, we ask you to report your timecards correctly and submit them on time. Please follow the regular holiday policy, founder under “Payroll Guidance for Non-Exempt Employees on Holidays and Shutdown Days” at this link. The actual University holidays are Christmas Day and New Year’s Day.

Timecards are due on the following schedules:

Monthly (exempt) timecards are due by December 18, 2017, for the entire month of December (vacation/sick hours), and will be paid on December 22, 2017. Note that the next paycheck for the monthly employees are not paid until January 31, 2018.
Semi-monthly (hourly) timecards are due by December 14, 2017 for the pay period 12/1/17 to 12/15/17 and will be paid on December 20, 2017. The second half of December timecard is due on December 22, 2017 for the pay period 12/16/17 to 12/31/17 and will be paid on January 5, 2018. This paycheck includes shutdown and Christmas day hours so please report your timecards appropriately to reflect the holiday.
Student timecards are due on December 18, 2017 for the pay period 12/1/17 to 12/15/17 and will be paid on December 22, 2017. The second half of December timecard is due on January 3, 2018 for the pay period 12/16/17 to 12/31/17 and will be on January 10, 2018.

Please be sure to submit and have your timecards approved on time for these accelerated payroll schedule. The 2018 payroll schedule will soon be available on the payroll page.

Contact the payroll office for more information at x8338 or payroll@up.edu.

Kevin Jones, social work, had a poem titled “The Cold Road” published in Juniper, A Poetry Journal. Jones is currently working on a research project exploring the therapeutic effects of poetry writing for youth who have experienced trauma. You can read the poem using this link.

Aziz Inan, Shiley School of Engineering, published, “Birthday curiosities for Kamala Harris,” www.newsindiatimes.com, News India Times, Parikh Worldwide Media LLC, New York, Vol. LI, No. 43, p. 13, October 30, 2020. The same article was also published as “Birthday curiosities for Kamala Harris,” www.desitalk.com, Desi Talk, Parikh Worldwide Media LLC, New York, NY, Vol. XXIV, No. 44, p. 19, October 30, 2020.

September Nelson, nursing, contributed “Lateral integration of care services” in C. R. King, S. O’Toole-Girard, C. G. Rapp (Eds.), Clinical nurse leader: Certification review (pp. 55-64). Springer Publishing, October 2020.

Lars Larson, English, delivered a paper on cyclical displacement titled “West of India: Postwestern Patterns in the Rajneesh Oregon of Wild Wild Country” at the Western Literature Association Conference on Oct. 23 (held online of course, even as it was scheduled to take place in his hometown of San Diego).

Andra Davis, nursing, contributed “Nurse-led telephonic symptom support for patients receiving chemotherapy” (with Bell, J., Reed, S., Kim, K., Stacey, D., & Joseph, J.) in Oncology Nursing Forum 47(6), E199-E210, November 2020.

Simon Aihiokhai, theology, wrote “Encounter: A New Icon of The Martyrs of Uganda” in Portland Magazine. Vol. 39. No. 1. (Fall 2020), 24 – 31.

Jacquie Van Hoomissen and Sarina Saturn co-led a collaborative of faculty who are participating in the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Inclusive Excellence Grant Competition for $1,000,000 to support inclusive excellent in science higher education. They recently learned that the UP collaborative was selected as one of only 108 campuses to participate in the next phase of the competition. They will be participating in an HHMI supported learning community to further understand how to make our campus more inclusive.