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2017-2018 Leadership Green Bay Sponsorship

Each year, the University sponsors one employee to participate in the Leadership Green Bay program. This program was established in 1983 by the Green Bay Area Chamber of Commerce and offers select individuals the unique opportunity to develop leadership skills while enhancing the well-being of the Green Bay area. Program goals include enhancing the participant’s knowledge of the Green Bay community; obtaining a greater awareness of issues that face the Green Bay area; enhancing leadership skills; and making an impact on the Green Bay Community.

Participants meet one day per month, October through May, following a two-day overnight retreat in September. Programs focus on Green Bay’s local economy, education, local history and heritage, diversity and cultural awareness, human services, government, and environment. In addition, small groups work on projects designed to enhance awareness of community problems, identify systems and methods to effect change, and develop their project management, team, and presentation skills. The groups meet on their own time outside Leadership Green Bay sessions.

All UW-Green Bay employees are eligible to express interest in being considered. Supervisors are also encouraged to nominate employees for participation in this program. If nominating an employee, please notify this person to determine if they are willing to participate before submitting. After the deadline, one employee will be selected by the Position Review Committee, and will asked to complete the nomination materials representing UW-Green Bay.

In order to express interest in participation, or to nominate an employee, please complete the Interest Form. This form should be filled out and signed by the employee, their supervisor, and the Dean/Division Head (if applicable). Completed forms must be received in the Human Resources office by Friday, February 24^th for full consideration.

You are also welcome to visit http://www.titletown.org/programs/leadership/leadership-green-bay for more information about this program.

If you have questions, please feel free to contact Human Resources at (920) 465-2390 or hr@uwgb.edu.

Student Employee of the Year Nominations

Now’s a great time to nominate for Student Employee of the Year (SEOTY)!

The Student Employment Office is seeking nominations for the 2017 SEOTY competition. Take advantage of the break between semesters to write a nomination for an outstanding student employee. Applications are evaluated based on reliability, professionalism, quality of work, initiative, and uniqueness of contribution. A special ceremony to recognize nominees and award winners will be held April 10, 2017. Learn more about the program at http://www.uwgb.edu/student-employment/seoty/overview.asp. All nominations (forms available at http://www.uwgb.edu/student-employment/seoty/nominate.asp) are due to the Student Employment Office (SS1100) by February 17, 2017. Please contact Allen Voelker (voelkera@uwgb.edu or 920/465-2556) with any questions.

Student Hours Reminder

As a reminder, UW-Green Bay student employees can work up to 40 hours per week between December 25, 2016 and January 7, 2017, and then must reduce their working schedules down to 25 hours per week starting January 8, 2017 to make sure we are in compliance with the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA). Please review the 2017 Student Bi-Weekly Payroll Schedule at: http://www.uwgb.edu/hr/documents/StudentBiWeeklyPayrollSchedule2017.pdf

If you have any questions about this, please contact Human Resources at hr@uwgb.edu or ext. 2390.

Employee Spotlight: Gail Trimberger

Position at UWGB: Associate Professor of Social Work and MSW Program Chair

Summary of what you do: Teach courses in the Social Work Program and provide administrative oversight of the MSW Program

How long have you been employed: since 2008

Brief history of employment with UWGB: Started as a visiting lecturer with the Social Work (SW) program in 2008. Started my doctorate in 2009. That led to a tenure-track, assistant professor position with the SW Program. I received tenure and promoted to Associate Professor in 2015. I was interim chair of the SW program from 2014-2015 and became MSW Program Chair in 2015.

Three words that describe you: My family offered these three words to describe me: Compassionate, Hard-working, Humble

Personal interests: Fitness, family, gardening, snowmobiling, water skiing

– Any favorite line from a movie? “In case I forget to tell you later, I had a great time tonight.” (Spoken by Julia Roberts to Richard Gere in Pretty Woman)

– Are you messy or organized? Very organized on the outside. Somewhat messy on the inside (including my desk drawers.)

– If you could interview one person (dead or alive) who would it be? My Great-great Aunt Myrtle Brooke (1872-1948) who is nationally recognized as a pioneer for the Social Work Profession.

– If you had to eat one meal, every day for the rest of your life, what would it be? Breakfast Skillet and black Coffee!

– If you were an animal what would you be? A giraffe…strong, flexible, creative, tenacious

– Motto or personal mantra? I am what I am (said Popeye the Sailor man)

– Top 3 life highlights? Finding and marrying my husband, having 2 children and raising them to be beautiful adults, achieving my doctorate in the middle of my life

– What do you like most about your job? My colleagues and our students

– What tv show/movie are you ashamed to admit you love? Sappy Christmas movies

– What’s the one thing, you can’t (don’t want to ever) live without? My family

I-9 Training Session

Our office will be holding three (3) training sessions on the updated I-9 form during January. We strongly encourage everyone who works with I-9’s to attend one of these sessions. We will be going through the I-9 form box by box online letting you know exactly what to fill in and how to utilize the tools that the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has built into the form for accuracy.

All training sessions will be held in the 1965 Room in the University Union. The dates and times are as follows:

Thursday, January 5, 2017 from 10 am to 11 am
Monday, January 9, 02017 from 2 pm to 3 pm
Wednesday, January 11, 2017 from 10 am to 11 am

Please sign up for the session that works best for you using this link to our Qualtrics survey: http://uwgreenbay.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_cPkbnwvsgekl5LT. We will send an outlook calendar reminder two days prior to each session but please make sure to note which time you sign up for.

If you have questions, feel free to reach out to me or our office. As you all know we do have to send I-9’s back if they are filled out incorrectly or are missing information before entering new appointments. The deadline to begin using the new I-9 form is 1/21/17, but we would like everyone to start using the new version of the form as soon as possible. The I-9 Form on our HR Website has been updated for a few weeks now as well, so please begin using that version if you have not already.