HR News Campus Updates & Events | July 2021

CSUN will celebrate the 55th Annual Staff Service and Recognition of Excellence Awards Event virtually on Wednesday, July 14, 2021, from 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. This event recognizes employees who have achieved milestones in five-year increments of dedicated service to the University.  At this year's event, we expect to honor approximately 300 employees recognized for collectively providing more than 4,000 years of service to the University!

Is it your time to be recognized? Please review the following list of employees scheduled to be recognized at 2021 Staff Service Award Nominees. 

If you believe that your name should be on the list, but it is not, or, your name is on the list and you believe it should not be, please submit the 2021 Staff Service Award Honoree List Inquiry Form, or contact Heather Kennedy at Heather.Kennedy@ csun.edu.

We hope you will join your CSU colleagues virtually this year on July 26-29 for another great Cal State Tech Connect 2021 online conference.

Register for the event and come share and learn about the many ways in which technology is supporting the mission of the CSU.

This event is free and open to CSU employees who are involved with information and academic technology. Please be sure to use your campus email address when you register. View the draft program schedule and register here. Questions? Contact us at calstatetechconference@calstate.edu  

Update as of June 29th!

Cal State Tech Connect Keynote Announcement

We are pleased to announce the first of our keynote speakers for the event! Tuesday, July 27, 2021: Chancellor Castro and Michael Berman, our system Chief Information Officer, will chat about many topics, including the role of technology in the CSU.

CSU Café: Cal State Tech e(Xr)po in Extended Reality​

We are also excited to announce that for the first time we will be integrating an augmented/extended reality environment into the conference. This environment will be the venue for the CSU Café! To learn more about the CSU Café experience please check out this short video.

Registration is open for the Cal State Tech Connect 2021 online event. Please head over to https://calstate.edu/techconnect to look at the schedule, and to register if you haven’t done so already.

The Jolene Koester Presidential Scholarship is awarded annually to a member, or members, of the University staff or administration pursuing a degree in any field of study at CSUN, and is intended to cover costs exceeding the amount of any fee waivers in effect. The applicant must enroll in at least three units each semester during the academic year. Students taking courses through the Tseng College are eligible. The application deadline for the 2021-2022 scholarships is July 30, 2021 @ 11:59 p.m.

Read more about this opportunity and eligibility requirements, and apply at: https://csun.academicworks.com/opportunities/2757.

Contact the Scholarship Office with any questions you may have at scholarships@csun.edu or (818) 677-4907 (M-F 10 a.m. - 3 p.m.).

More information about the Fee Waiver & Reduction Program can be found at: http://www.csun.edu/benefits/fee-waiver-reduction-program.

Remember, the Fall 2021 Planning Gateway Website houses the latest updates on everything from academics, to health and safety, to student life. As always, planning is grounded in a commitment to ensuring the health and safety of our academic community, while also providing our students with the opportunity to realize their educational aspirations and advance our academic mission.

Stay in the know and visit the page regularly.

Following are but a few of the accomplishments highlighted in the Annual Sustainability Plan Update which can be accessed at the below link. Please take some time to go through it and feel free to share it with your colleagues.

• CSUN Launches a Sustainability Award as part of the annual Staff Service Awards.
• We have made major leaps forward in our sourcing of sustainable and local food served in campus dinning – 69% of food was purchased from a local source and 100% of our seafood was considered sustainably sourced.
• The Masters in Sustainability was officially approved by the CSU Board of Trustees and will begin in Fall 2022.
• Approximately 65,331 forms were signed digitally in the 2020-2021 fiscal year - saving the equivalent of at least $112,000 in paper.
• CSUN will be completing the Campus-Wide LED Lighting Upgrade Project towards the end of summer resulting in a savings of $1.2 million in annual electricity costs and over 2,000 metric tons of GHG each year.
• In partnership with the Fruit Tree Planting Foundation, the Institute for Sustainability and Physical Plant Management, the campus now has a new 1/4-acre orchard that features a variety of 50 fruit trees.
• By the end of August 2021, all outdoor waste bins will have been stationed in clusters of three at strategic locations, and wrapped to match the aesthetic and messaging of other zero waste bins across campus.
• New smart water meters were installed in five locations and they were successful in detecting several water leaks or running plumbing fixtures. These alerts resulted in field investigations that lead to the issues being resolved.

To view the complete report online, select the image below, or click here.

Register today to join CSUN’s Inaugural Career Preparation Program!

CSUN invites supervisors of student employees to brighten the professional futures of their workers by participating in the From Here to Career: Career Readiness Program. During this 10-month employment development program, you will learn how to support your student while they explore and practice key concepts and strategies that will set them on a path to career success.

Starting in August 2021, participating faculty and staff supervisors of students will support working collegians with learning and applying career fundamentals through monthly check-ins and be asked to encourage students to engage with a variety of online resources. The time investment is 30 minutes a month. As supervisors, you will be given access to a toolbox of information and workshops that will help you gain knowledge about the skills employers are looking for in entry-level applicants. In addition, you will learn strategies that help students translate their on-campus work skills into post-college careers.

For more information, contact the Career Center at studentemployment@csun.edu or 818-677-2385. Register both you and one (1) student today on the Career Center’s Website https://www.csun.edu/career/campus-student-employment to join the inaugural From Here to Career: Career Readiness Program, brought to you by CSUN’s Division of Student Affairs in collaboration with the Career Center, Human Resources, and the University Student Union.

You can access a printable full-size version of the From Here to Career flier here.

The USU has opened their events up for the entire CSUN campus community to keep everyone engaged and provide beneficial services during the pandemic. You can find additional information detailed on our calendar or webpage.

Select here to read the latest issue of CSU Leader.

A collaboration of 11 CSU campus sustainability officers, the 2021 Earth Month EcoChallenge represented a collaborative Earth Week celebratory experience.  View the report here to view the engagement of students, faculty and staff.

University Library will Remain Partially Reopened to CSUN Students this Summer for Individual Study, Computer Use, and Access to Course Reserves

Starting Tuesday, June 1, 2021, the main floor of the Library will continue to be open to summer school and continuing CSUN students only by reservation through Libcal, Monday through Friday, 10am to 4pm, closed weekends and holidays. See Library Individual Study and Computer Use Space for more information.

In addition, the Library is pleased to start providing access to its print Course Reserves materials on June 1st for in-library use only. Textbooks and other materials on Reserve may be requested through OneSearch and picked up at the Guest Services desk on the main floor of the library and used in designated areas of the Learning Commons. See Course Reserves Options for more information.

For more information, visit https://library.csun.edu/COVID-19