Fiscal Officer Meeting

Thursday, March 19, 2009

Ernie Cornford - Miscellaneous

• PeopleSoft Certification

• Everyone on fiscal officer list must go through certification every six months.

• Send me email if you want to add to fiscal officer list.

• Meeting notifications will be put on Outlook as appointments.

Cost Savers

• Eliminate the Non-PO voucher with travel vouchers.– Non-PO voucher must still be entered in PS

and number recorded on travel voucher– Travel vouchers with no voucher numbers will

be returned– Non-PO voucher will not be reviewed by

Accounting. Revise form?– TRIP still coming - TBA

Cost Savers – cont’d

• Elimination of pay remittance advice– On MyHR– YTD only for current period– Prints on two pages– Was to start July 1, but may be delayed due

to start of 1% to 2% pension contribution

Transition Assistance Program

Errol Benson

Triton Connect

Randall Vogan

Linda Gatson

Triton Connect

Background

• Each year, participants in the Administrative Leadership Development Program (ALDP) select a project to enrich their campus

• The 2008 UMSL ALDP class focused their attention on a project that would increase the engagement of faculty and staff– Targeted benefits included an improvement of

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Project Selected:

TRITON CONNECTUMSL’s online community

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What is it?

• An online discussion site, available to UMSL faculty and staff, that provides opportunities to connect with others on campus with similar professional and/or personal interests

• Arranged in the following treelike structure:Categories or broad subject areas

Forums or specific subject areasThreads or topics of conversation

Posts or individuals messages within each thread

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How do you access it?

• To access Triton Connect, UMSL faculty or staff must first log on to the campus network

• They may then link to Triton Connect from MyGateway (coming soon) or by entering the following URL: https://tritonconnect.umsl.edu/

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How does it work?

• After entering the Triton Connect website, UMSL faculty or staff can select a forum of interest under various categories or subject areas– They may then begin a new discussion under that

forum or read/respond to an existing discussion

• A moderator will be assigned to each forum to monitor existing discussions within the forum and promote new discussions

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Demonstration

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Category

Forums

View of the home page

Example 1: Click on the “Getting Started” forum

Demonstration

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Example 1: Click on the “New User” discussion or thread

Demonstration

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Click on logo to return to home page

Demonstration

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Budget Items

Joann Wilkinson