Finance and Administration News
All students, faculty, and staff asked to upload vaccination or booster record to avoid quarantine
OHIO has adopted new COVID-19 quarantine and isolation recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, effective immediately. The CDC’s updated quarantine guidance allows those who have been boosted or recently fully vaccinated to avoid a five-day quarantine if they are exposed to COVID-19.
Bobcats show up for the annual Campus Recycling Winter Food Drive
51ÂÒÂ× Campus Recycling wrapped up the annual Winter Food Drive on Saturday, Dec. 11 as the fall semester came to a close. This year, Campus Recycling is excited to report that 1,224.5 pounds of food was donated to Cats’ Cupboard.
ORITE addresses infrastructure needs through thermoplastics research
51ÂÒÂ×’s Ohio Research Institute for Transportation and the Environment (ORITE) recently collaborated with the National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) on a study that assessed the performance of pipes created from recycled plastic.
Confidential Shredding Update
n August and September, we were working through the transition of vendors for confidential shredding services. Subsequently, we have failed to come to terms on a contract with the new vendor and will not be moving forward with them and have instead awarded the contract to our existing vendor, Shred-it.
Shred-It will provide both recurring and on-demand purging services. They have different bin sizes available and offer both onsite and offsite shredding, on different pickup schedules. We have created a new Confidential Shredding website detailing this service, including the following:
- Service options
- Service request process
- Cost projection spreadsheet
- Service request form (additional details below)
- Contacts
Service Request Form
Please note: you will need a valid PO number to submit a service request (see Service request process). We are requesting use of the Service Agreement form for POs with this vendor instead of a Blanket PO, as Blanket POs auto-close at year-end, creating re-work in creating new POs and addressing unmatched invoices.
Questions?
Please email Chad Mitchell (mitchec2@ohio.edu) with any questions
Students promote discussions on sustainability and climate change through outreach events
51ÂÒÂ×’s Climate and Sustainability Ambassador program culminated its fall semester outreach initiatives with November events on East, West and South greens. The ambassador program, launched in the spring of 2019 by Sustainable Administration Hub Coordinator Ryan Fogt, Ph.D., takes direct action to promote sustainability and combat climate change on campus, in the city of Athens, and throughout Southeast Ohio.
Facilities Management and Safety provides energy conservation tips before winter break
Facilities Management and Safety requests that employees who have been working in campus facilities during fall semester take energy conservation actions before leaving buildings for the winter break closure.
51ÂÒÂ× to close Dec. 24 for Winter Break Closure, reopening Jan. 3
The Winter Break Closure Plan (WBC) calls for closure of the University from Dec. 25 through Jan. 1 each year.
Facilities Management and Safety provides energy conservation tips before winter break
Facilities Management and Safety requests that employees who have been working in campus facilities during fall semester take energy conservation actions before leaving buildings for the winter break closure.
The actions described in this article will help 51ÂÒÂ× save energy, reduce environmental impacts and minimize costs.
DOE grants awarded to Institute for Sustainable Energy and the Environment
The Russ College of Engineering and Technology’s Institute for Sustainable Energy and the Environment (ISEE) has been awarded $2 million for two projects by the U.S. Department of Energy to develop advanced filaments for additive manufacturing and graphite for energy storage applications from mining wastes.
CHANGE: Submitting Requisitions in BobcatBUY
In July 2021, our BobcatBUY provider introduced a new enhancement that performs real-time account validation by adding a feature called Validate with ERP and Place Order. The purpose of this new feature was to improve the user experience by validating accounts before the user submitted requisitions; this would allow you to correct the accounts before you submitted the order instead of the req being returned for corrections. Unfortunately, the amount of time it takes for this real-time validation to occur in BobcatBUY has been inconsistent and many users have reported long delays that have negatively impacted their productivity. As a result, we have decided to temporarily remove this feature. Beginning December 6, 2021, users will no longer see the Validate with ERP and Place Order button and will instead see the Submit Requisition button. Please note that if a requisition is submitted with an invalid account, the requisition will be returned to the submitter and will not be processed until any necessary corrections are made. We will continue to work with our technical teams to improve the performance of the real-time validation feature and will re-enable it in BobcatBUY once the system lag issues with this feature are resolved.