Dear Colleagues, As we return to campus, we want to thank you sincerely for your extraordinary efforts during the last 18 months to continue offering our students our instruction, even under duress, and for keeping together our intellectual and scholarly communities throughout this difficult time. We are in the process of implementing our return to […]
SOH Event and Food Service guidelines for Fall 2021 – 9-3-2021
We look forward to being back on campus and offering some in-person events and activities in addition to in-person instruction this academic year. Because of UCI’s vaccination mandate for faculty, staff, and students, the UCI community already has a very high level of protection. The campus also has a robust set of additional public health […]
[OIT Message] Keep Microsoft Teams Secure
Teams User, Microsoft Teams is a workplace collaboration tool that enables remote work and communication among teammates campus wide. You are receiving this email because you have been identified as being a member of at least one Microsoft Team. With significantly increased usage in our new telecommuting environment, users should get acquainted with Teams settings […]
[OIT Messages] VPN Information
Dear Colleagues, To accommodate the increased need for remote access to the campus network, we now have multiple VPN servers for different purposes, and we are continuing to order and deploy more hardware. Meanwhile, to help us make the best use of the resources we have, please choose your connection to the campus carefully. For […]
[OIT Messages] Keep Zoom Safe
From: OIT Colleagues, Zoom is a powerful web conferencing tool that enables remote work and frequent collaboration. With significantly increased usage during the spring quarter, it is necessary to get acquainted with available options and select the most suitable configuration for your meetings that maintains the privacy of the participants, as well as the security of the […]
[Humstaff] SOH Week 1 Instructional Update
Dear School of Humanities colleagues, As we embark on this challenging new quarter, we would like to express our heartfelt appreciation for all your dedication, efforts, and contributions. This message is a start of the quarter roundup of information concerning SOH instruction and instructional support. We also would like to direct your attention to SOH’s […]
[All UCI Faculty] DTEI/OIT Remote Instruction Workshops: Week of March 23rd
Dear UCI Faculty, The Division of Teaching Excellence and Innovation and the Office of Information Technology have partnered on a series of webinars to ensure that your transition to teaching remotely is as smooth as possible. We know that the move to remote instruction for spring quarter has presented many new challenges, and we are […]
[Humstaff] Expanded Telecommuting Plan
Dear Colleagues, In response to the rapidly evolving COVID-19 outbreak, the campus leadership has now urged us to implement temporary telecommuting arrangements for all employees in non-critical positions. Except for a small contingent of personnel to keep essential operations running on campus, for the next three weeks (March 16 through April 5th), our employees should work […]
[Humstaff] SOH Update re: Travel and Events
Consistent with recent campus messages on Travel and Events, below is a School update on travel and events: TRAVEL: In recent campus messages from the Chancellor and DFA regarding UCI-sponsored travel, we were informed that all UCI-sponsored travel from March 11 to May 31, 2020 must be essential and have the Dean’s preapproval, due to the COVID-19 […]
[Humstaff] Forwarding note to academics from Senate Chair: Coronavirus Update – Implementation of Educational Continuity
Dear UCI Faculty, We write to follow-up on the Chancellor’s recent message. The intent of remote instruction and testing is to fulfill our responsibility to our students while prioritizing the health and safety of our entire campus community. Instructors are encouraged to exercise flexibility and creativity to adjust course delivery, practices and policies as needed. […]