Bundled into every P&S employee's title in the new classification/compensation system will be a job classification, level category and level that reveal information about the complexity and responsibility of that job.
Professional and scientific employees, along with their supervisors, will learn their job titles in the new classification and compensation system via individual emails from university human resources. The timing of those notifications isn't quite set.
Structuring assessments and maintaining academic integrity is one of the biggest challenges instructors and students face with online instruction. Many instructors are adjusting how they are testing, but ultimately it rests with students to make the right decision.
Helping Iowa manufacturers retool to make needed health care and safety supplies, which also protects manufacturing jobs threatened by a slowdown, is one way the Center for Industrial Research and Service is assisting the state's economy during the COVID-19 crisis.
ISU is preparing to make virtual ceremonies for undergraduate, graduate and professional veterinary medicine students available on demand Saturday, May 9, beginning at 10 a.m. central time.
Postal and parcel services staff are keeping their regular routes to about 75% of campus buildings, even though many of them are locked during the pandemic.
If you're working from home these days, you know virtual meetings on platforms like Webex, Zoom and Microsoft Teams are essential to keeping Iowa State running. But seeing precisely how much the traffic has increased is still startling.
The intent is to assist faculty and staff working remotely who could use additional Dell computer equipment to do their jobs. Same-day pickup is possible.
The project team behind the Workday Planning rollout shifted to remote collaboration to keep the launch on track for April 13 -- providing a more sophisticated cloud-based budgeting tool in the midst of a crisis that makes the improvements especially valuable.
University leaders met virtually with the Professional and Scientific Council at the council's April 2 meeting, fielding questions about how the university's response to the coronavirus pandemic is affecting employees.
Senior vice president and provost Jonathan Wickert spoke to the Faculty Senate about a timeline to return to campus and spring semester course evaluations at the April 7 meeting.
Academic advising in virtual mode dislocates a regular, important and personal interaction for students at a time when they have many questions. Four advisers described how they and their students are handling the change.
Faye Draper's colleagues in the admissions office couldn't let her 50th anniversary at Iowa State pass without a celebration, so in appropriate pandemic style, they gave her a parade.
The unprecedented response to the COVID-19 pandemic evolves rapidly. Each week as needed, Inside Iowa State will recap how coronavirus is affecting the university and share relevant resources for employees.
A campuswide effort to inventory personal protective equipment in labs available to share with local health workers has drawn more than 170 would-be donations.
Collaboration on campus and beyond connected a distillery in northern Iowa with the College of Veterinary Medicine, providing the college's hospitals, diagnostic lab and other facilities with a replenished supply of difficult-to-find hand sanitizer.
