Category archive for ‘Staff Stuff’ 
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Campus Power Outage Sunday
Electricity will be cut to many campus buildings this Sunday, April 20, so that high-voltage equipment can be connected in Neyland Stadium.
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Check Your Health Today
The UT College of Nursing is teaming with Covenant Health again this year to host the UT Covenant Health Check. Learn more about your health today from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the University Center Ballroom. Free for students, UT employees and their families.
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Mobile Mammography Comes to Campus
The University of Tennessee Medical Center’s Mobile Mammography Unit will visit the UT campus to offer breast cancer screenings from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on April 17, 18 and 29 at Circle Park. To schedule an appointment or for any insurance questions, please call 305-9069.
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Football Season Ticket Prices to Rise
UT football season ticket prices for faculty and staff are going up. Athletics Department officials have notified season ticket holders that they will no longer offer a 50-percent discount on season tickets.
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Get Enrolled in the Sick Leave Bank
Employee Relations is now accepting applications for enrollment to the Sick Leave Bank, which provides members who are experiencing serious illness the opportunity to request additional paid leave from the bank after exhausting all of their own accrued sick leave and vacation leave. For more information on joining the SLB, read the official university policy or call 974-6018.
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Commuter of the Quarter Makes Orange Green
In 1999, Parking and Transit Services’ Robert Davis started riding the Knoxville Area Transit (KAT) bus to work everyday. Now he has logged nearly 500 rides and has also become friends with fellow commuter, UT Human Resources’ Cheryl Hodge, who nominated him for the KAT award. "Robert was my instructor in ‘Bus Riding 101,’" says Hodge. "He has become a real friend."
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Williams Named March Send Roses Winner
Described as "responsive and hard-working," Tracy Williams, a maintenance specialist in the Art and Architecture Building, goes the extra mile to get things done and genuinely cares about the work he does. Because of his positive attitude and proactive work ethic, Williams was selected as March’s Send Roses Recipient.
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UT to Pay Privilege Tax on Behalf of UT Employees
For the past five years, Chapter 856, Public Acts of 2002 has permitted the university to pay one job-related professional privilege tax on behalf of its faculty and staff. Provided there are no changes to this legislation, the university will once again remit this payment on the behalf of UT employees.
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Provost Holub Invites Staff to Noon March 19 Event at University Center
"This week a subcommittee of the Strategic Planning Committee will be holding an open forum to solicit input from members of the staff on the Knoxville campus. Since we would like to encourage participation, I would like to ask all units to extend permission to staff members to attend this session."
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Is UT Open During Bad Weather?
Language has been added to the university’s weather policy to more clearly define what faculty, staff and students should do in the event of a delayed opening.