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Useful information about what's due the day of an office visit and what's due later, easy payment plans with health care providers and examples that illustrate the cost-sharing shift coming in 2024.

Prioritizing self-care and making use of available resources can help employees limit the impact of cost-sharing changes to the university's health care plan in 2024.

Learn about available tools to help you estimate additional medical expenses in 2024. Perhaps this is the year for a health care flexible spending account to spread out those costs?

Hundreds gather to honor Trice at the closing event of a yearlong commemoration intended to broaden awareness of his life story.

Summerlike days this week presented teaching faculty with some outdoor learning opportunities.

The 32 members of the 2023-24 Emerging Leaders Academy are working to build their leadership skills, better understand university function and culture, and think beyond their department or unit.

Calculating that the right amount of taxes are being taken out of a paycheck each month could keep employees from having to write a check later.

As part of a broader effort to help faculty and staff prepare for changes to their medical insurance plans for 2024, benefits director Ed Holland and associate vice president for finance Heather Paris led a virtual town hall this week.

Other outcomes of the Sept. 28 state Board of Regents meeting include a Scheman Building renovation, new data dashboard on alumni median income and student debt, participation in a special retirement incentive plan and operating support requests to the state for the next fiscal year.

Employees who want to contribute to the campaign may use payroll deduction or their credit card to make a gift.

Work continues this fall on replacing the basin and plumbing that supports the iconic Fountain of the Four Seasons sculpture on the north lawn of the Memorial Union.

Dan Grooms, Stephen G. Juelsgaard Dean of the College of Veterinary Medicine, has been appointed to a second five-year term, beginning Oct. 1.

The changes include higher monthly premiums and some new shared costs for medical services. The range of services covered in the plans is not changing.

The free clinic is open 9 a.m.- 4 p.m. each weekday in the fitness room of the State Gymnasium. No appointment is needed; just walk in.

Two finalists will interview on campus the week of Oct. 2. Their visits will include an open forum with the university community in Spedding Hall.

Sharon Perry Fantini, who has served as vice president for diversity, equity and inclusion since January 2022, will leave the university Oct. 6. Associate provost for faculty Dawn Bratsch-Prince will serve in an interim role.

Answers to some common questions among faculty and staff about the 2024 changes to the university's health care plan.

Projects include renovations at Scheman, Seasons dining center and athletics' west side tennis complex and demolition of LeBaron Hall on central campus.