News

Dear SHARE,

We are pleased to announce this year’s Staff Appreciation and Recognition (STAR) Award Program for staff covered by Personnel Policies for Staff Members (PPSM) and for clerical staff covered by the CX bargaining unit. The STAR Award program this year includes the SPOT Award (up to a maximum of $500): 

• The SPOT Award (up to a maximum of $500 per award, but may be lower than $500) is designed to recognize a significant and outstanding contribution(s) on a particular effort above and beyond position duties.

2023 processes announced by SSALL and BRS HR Manager, Supervisors.

Dear SHARE Region,  

For your eligible faculty with available funding that can be used for summer ninths compensation (such as endowed chair funds, start-up funds, etc.), I am writing today to let you know that Berkeley Regional Services (BRS) will begin collecting the information this month to set up summer salary payments. 

APO announced this news to the campus in an email on 2/21/23.

Dear SHARE Region,

I hope you are all doing well! Below are some important HR updates, we would like to share with you.

Staffing Changes:

We have recently made some changes to our organizational structure and we have promoted Ana Chavez to Operations Supervisor. As a result, we have been working diligently at finding her replacement and have promoted Nicole Villagran-Tartari to HR Partner.

Dear SHARE:

We hope you are doing well so far this semester. We know everyone is navigating change and uncertainty and hope you are taking care of yourselves. We have a couple of quick items to share with you. 

Preventing Late Pay Grievances:

Dear SHARE:

We understand how much stress everyone has been under lately and hope you had a chance to rest and relax over the weekend. We wanted to share a few upcoming deadlines, however we will be as flexible as possible, so think of them as guidelines for helping us complete them as timely as possible. 

Purchasing Deadlines before curtailment:

This is a link to the BRS News article.

This is a link to the BRS News article of 10/13/22.

This is a reminder of the Fall 2022 ASE/GSR Hiring deadlines and some updates that will facilitate a smooth hiring process. 

Deadlines:

1. 7/18/2022 - All ASE/GSR Smartsheet entries/approvals due for on-time 9/1/2022 pay

2. 8/5/2022 - DocuSign packets must be completed by ASE/GSRs for on-time 9/1/2022 pay

Editors note: Refer to this BRS News article. 

This is a "preview" of the BRS deadlines.

Editors note: A joint email was sent on 4/1/22 regarding these changes.

Editors note re: SSALL campus email for Summer Sessions.

Dear SHARE Region,

To bring clarity around the processing timelines for Visiting Scholar and Visiting Student Researchers, we are providing the resources below: 

The J-1 Scholar Process Timeline (currently heavily impacted by COVID restrictions in each country):

• Department/BRS invites the visitor

• 4+ weeks 

• BIO processes DS-2019

This email was sent to faculty on 2/10/22 by APO's Heather Archer and the Berkeley Regional Services Leadership Teams, providing a preview of the 2022 deadlines.

Coming next month, the UCPath system will be updated.