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The Dome: Off Until After the New Year

Your favorite daily newsletter is going on hiatus over the holidays.

The last issue of The Dome will publish on Wednesday, December 23. It will return, though, after the New Year.

The Dome will publish on Wednesdays beginning January 6, 2016 (so be sure to have your submission in by Tuesday, January 5).

The Dome’s daily schedule will resume with the start of classes on Tuesday, January 19. You won’t want to miss that issue, as the start of the new semester will bring with it a new and improved Dome.

The updated version will be more user-friendly and better align with the look and feel of the recently-launched brand. And while your favorites will remain (Campus Candids and In the News), the redesigned Dome will also include a few new features.

Stay tuned….

Submitted by: Marketing and Communication

Web Time Entry Holiday Shutdown Schedule

The BA27 pay period, Sunday, December 13 – Saturday, December 26, will be paid on Thursday, December 31.

– Employees will have until Monday, December 21 to submit timesheets.

– Approvers will have until Tuesday, December 22 to approve timesheets.

– Please contact Maureen Hidy at Ext. 8531 or Natalie Klyczek at Ext. 8532 with any questions.

The BW27 Work Study pay period, Friday, December 11 – Thursday, December 24, will be paid on Thursday, December 31.

– Students have until Monday, December 21 to submit timesheets.

– Approvers will have until Tuesday, December 22 to approve timesheets.

– Please contact Denise Rogers at Ext. 8535 with any questions.

PLEASE communicate this schedule to your student workers.

All time sheets must be approved before you leave for the Holiday break.

Please use the following guidelines for recording time during the holiday shutdown period.

Non-exempt employees should record shutdown days with the “holiday” pay code. Employees required, for business purposes, to work during the shutdown period should record the hours that are worked using the “regular” pay code. Employees who are required to work during shutdown will be given 7.5 hours of floating holiday, which must be used prior to the end of the fiscal year on May 31, 2016.

Exempt employees who work during shutdown should NOT submit a timesheet. Employees who work during shutdown will be given 7.5 hours of floating holiday, which must be used prior to the end of the fiscal year on May 31, 2016. Supervisors are asked to please keep track of days worked and floating holidays taken.

Submitted by: Natalie Klyczek, payroll supervisor, controller’s office

Canisius Receives Prestigious Lilly Grant

Canisius has been chosen as a select group of private four-year colleges and universities across the nation to receive a grant from the Lilly Endowment. The college will receive $583,000 to establish the Be the Light Youth Theology Institute.

As part of Lilly Endowment’s High School Youth Theology Institute Initiative, Be the Light will provide high school youth with opportunities to (1) explore in-depth sacred scriptures and theological traditions and examine the moral and ethical dimensions of contemporary challenges; (2) draw on the wisdom of their religious tradition as they make decisions about their futures; and (3) consider vocations in full-time ministry and religious leadership. It will consist of a six-day residential experience on campus for between 25 and 40 high school students entering their junior and senior years.

The experiences will be guided by Canisius College professors in the Philosophy and Religious Studies and Theology departments, local parish leaders, members of the Canisius Jesuit community, leaders from the Roman Catholic Diocese of Buffalo, other religious community leaders, and Canisius College undergraduate and graduate students.

To read more about the Lilly Endowment and the Be the Light Youth Theology Institute, click here.

Submitted by: Marketing and Communication

Quick Response Cards

As the result of a cooperative initiative between Student Government and Public Safety that has extended over the past two semesters, SG Senators have been distributing multi-color Quick Response cards to classrooms and conference rooms throughout campus. These laminated 8×11 multi-color cards are hung from phones, etc by a bright green string. Attempts have been made to hang the placards near room doorways as much as possible. About 40 classrooms are completed thus far.

You are strongly encouraged to make yourself familiar with these placards as they provide helpful advice as to how to respond in situations such as Lockdown, Lockout, Shelter-in-Place, Evacuation, Room Intervention and Hazmat/Weather/Power failure.

Please do not remove these placards from the rooms.

As always, please feel free to contact Public Safety if you have any questions regarding these placards.

Many thanks to all of those in Student Government who have worked so hard to create these helpful placards in an effort to help our campus community be a safer place.

Submitted by: Marketing and Communication