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  • Review Your Beneficiary Designations This January

    Review Your Beneficiary Designations This January

    January 16, 2024
    Naming and regularly reviewing beneficiaries (and updating if necessary) is important to ensure that your funds and benefit amounts will be distributed according to your wishes in the event of your death. Fortunately, doing so is quick and easy for your retirement plan account(s), HSA accounts, and life insurance.

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  • Learn How to Make the Most of Your Blue Cross Blue Shield Benefits – January 30 and 31

    Learn How to Make the Most of Your Blue Cross Blue Shield Benefits – January 30 and 31

    January 16, 2024
    Join Viktoria Rill, Illinois Tech's Sr. Director of Total Rewards & People Development, later this month to learn all about how you can maximize your benefits through our Blue Cross Blue Shield medical plan. She'll briefly cover plan basics before jumping into rewards programs, programs that come with free tools to help you manage chronic conditions, our free digital exercise therapy program for members with muscle and joint pain, and more. She'll also talk about benefits that will help you save money on prescriptions, and the many advantages of Health Savings Accounts.

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  • TIAA and Fidelity 2024 First Quarter Live Webinars

    TIAA and Fidelity 2024 First Quarter Live Webinars

    January 16, 2024
    Is attaining a higher level of financial savviness one of your new year's resolutions? Both Fidelity & TIAA, our 403(b) Retirement Plan vendors, are offering a variety of live webinars this spring, designed to help empower you to take greater control of the money matters most important to you.

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  • Staff Check Your Paychecks

    Staff Check Your Paychecks

    January 16, 2024
    January 12, 2024, was the first biweekly paycheck date of the new year. Staff members should review paystubs to ensure accuracy of any benefit changes made during open enrollment, new FSA elections, and 403(b) election changes. Any discrepancies must be reported along with a screenshot verifying successful completion of Open Enrollment no later than Monday, January 22, 2024.

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  • Take Library Tour for Faculty and Staff

    Take Library Tour for Faculty and Staff

    January 11, 2024
    Join us for a library tour in the Spring Semester. Learn about library services and resources available to faculty and staff. Tours will be offered Wednesday, February 7; Tuesday, March 5; and Wednesday, April 3.

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  • January 17 Faculty Lounge: Building Community With the Office of Faculty Affairs

    January 17 Faculty Lounge: Building Community With the Office of Faculty Affairs

    January 9, 2024
    Learn more about the new office of Faculty Affairs and hwo they can support faculty through ways of engagement at the January 17 Faculty Lounge: Building Community With the Office of Faculty Affairs. What does engaging with faculty look like? Dionna Anderson of Faculty Affairs will provide examples of projects and events she would like to do in 2024.

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  • TELUS Health (Formerly Lifeworks) Employee Assistance Program January 2024 Features: Reset and Renew

    TELUS Health (Formerly Lifeworks) Employee Assistance Program January 2024 Features: Reset and Renew

    January 9, 2024
    A new year is a great time to take stock of your health habits and lifestyle, and set some time aside to focus on making changes you identify as those that will help you reach new goals. This month TELUS Health (formerly Lifeworks), Illinois Tech’s Employee Assistance Program is there as a resource for you as you seek to make health changes. Check out the Heartbeat Newsletter for articles such as Five ways to simplify your life, and Setting SMART goals. When you visit the Heartbeat Newsletter site, you also have access to prior months’ newsletters and all of their articles, videos, and resources.

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  • IRS Announces Business Mileage Rate Increase for 2024

    IRS Announces Business Mileage Rate Increase for 2024

    January 9, 2024
    Beginning on January 1, 2024, the standard mileage rates for privately owned vehicles while on official Illinois Tech business will be 67 cents per mile. This rate applies to electric and hybrid-electric automobiles, as well as gasoline and diesel-powered vehicles.

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  • 2024 University Holidays

    2024 University Holidays

    January 4, 2024
    The 2024 University Holiday schedule is listed below, and can be found on the Paid Time Off and Holiday Closures page of the Human Resources Department's website. Please note that the 2024 Holiday break would normally have run from Wednesday, December 25, 2024, through Wednesday, January 1, 2025. However, President Echambadi has granted two additional University Holiday days immediately preceding Christmas Day as a thank you to staff for their hard work throughout the year.

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  • If Needed, Request to Merge or Record Courses Soon for Spring Semester

    If Needed, Request to Merge or Record Courses Soon for Spring Semester

    December 14, 2023
    If you want to merge two or more courses, fill out the Course Merge Request form as soon as possible. Also if not already scheduled for lecture capture/online course, we now have a request to complete if you’d like your course to be recorded by the in-room cameras: the Course Recording Request. As with the course merge request form, submitting it earlier is better and will help ensure your course is ready when classes begin January 8.

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