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Year Two for F&M's Staff Council

The Staff Council is pleased to enter our second year at F&M! We’d like to take a moment to recap the work we did in our inaugural year and look forward to what’s next. Reflecting on a Productive Start in 2021-22 In our first year, we developed a Staff Council Website, where you can learn more about our mission, structure, and bylaws. We found ways to celebrate one another with Shout Outs and launched a Get to Know the Department program. We placed more than 10 staff members on College committees, and we just nominated seven more as the first-ever official staff representatives on Board of Trustees committees. We developed this nifty interest form to fill out if you're thinking about serving in the future and a nominating form so that you can put your talented colleagues forward for important roles. We presented at a Professional Staff Luncheon and hosted a Lunch and Learn event on Beating Burnout with HR and DipCares. We hosted two Day of Dialogue sessions and a staff cookie break, and we Patio-Partied twice! We also had the absolute pleasure of meeting many of you on our listening tour that took us to 15 departments and areas across all divisions of the College. We held some open sessions as well, but we know we didn’t catch everyone, so please feel free to be in touch if you’d like to set something up this fall. And that was us just getting started! Thank you all so much because your participation, and the information and ideas you provided, will greatly inform our work going forward. What’s Ahead in 2022-23 This year, Staff Council includes continuing members in new roles and new members who will add value to our important work: William Applegate, Public Safety Police Officer Lydia Brubaker, Council Chair, Office of Finance & Administration Jenn Buch, Research Services Specialist Nicole Fickes, Council Scribe, Academic Department Coordinator Pat Henry, Electrical Supervisor Jason Klinger, Council Exempt Vice Chair, Asst. VP for Marketing, Content & Creative Janie Kreines, Curator of Exhibitions and Engagement Jennifer Miller, Council Non-Exempt Vice Chair, Office of Student Affairs Kelly Schenke ’95, Council Communications Officer, Academic Department      Coordinator Andrea Sherman, Senior Accounting Analyst Enrique Sotomayor, Custodial Manager Stephanie Stoehr, Institutional Biosafety Officer and Teaching Professor of Biology Emily Wilson ’11, Research Lab Manager and Technician We are currently in the process of sharing our findings from year one (including many great ideas we heard from you!) with President Altmann, Human Resources, and other campus partners, and we will soon work to prioritize follow-up action plans for the coming months. Keep an eye out for more news from us and for ways you can get involved. To help us keep our ear to the ground and continue to shape our goals for year two, please use our Staff Council Suggestion Box or email us at staffcouncil@fandm.edu with comments, questions, and ideas. Also feel free to reach out to any of us individually or stop us on campus to chat. Be in touch, support one another as we continue to work to support you, and keep doing all the wonderful things you do across campus to make this extraordinary place run. Happy Fall! To help us keep our ear to the ground and continue to shape our goals for year two, please use our Staff Council Suggestion Box or email us at staffcouncil@fandm.edu with comments, questions, and ideas. Also feel free to reach out to any of us individually or stop us on campus to chat. Be in touch, support one another as we continue to work to support you, and keep doing all the wonderful things you do across campus to make this extraordinary place run. Happy Fall! Sincerely, Lydia Brubaker On behalf of Staff Council
Thu, Oct 6, 2022
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The Staff Council is pleased to enter our second year at F&M! We’d like to take a moment to recap the work we did in our inaugural year and look forward to what’s next.
    
Reflecting on a Productive Start in 2021-22
    

In our first year, we developed a Staff Council Website, where you can learn more about our mission, structure, and bylaws. We found ways to celebrate one another with Shout Outs and launched a Get to Know the Department program. We placed more than 10 staff members on College committees, and we just nominated seven more as the first-ever official staff representatives on Board of Trustees committees. We developed this nifty interest form to fill out if you're thinking about serving in the future and a nominating form so that you can put your talented colleagues forward for important roles.

  
We presented at a Professional Staff Luncheon and hosted a Lunch and Learn event on Beating Burnout with HR and DipCares. We hosted two Day of Dialogue sessions and a staff cookie break, and we Patio-Partied twice! We also had the absolute pleasure of meeting many of you on our listening tour that took us to 15 departments and areas across all divisions of the College. We held some open sessions as well, but we know we didn’t catch everyone, so please feel free to be in touch if you’d like to set something up this fall.
    
And that was us just getting started! Thank you all so much because your participation, and the information and ideas you provided, will greatly inform our work going forward.
    
What’s Ahead in 2022-23

   
This year, Staff Council includes continuing members in new roles and new members who will add value to our important work:
    
William Applegate, Public Safety Police Officer
Lydia Brubaker, Council Chair, Office of Finance & Administration
Jenn Buch, Research Services Specialist
Nicole Fickes, Council Scribe, Academic Department Coordinator
Pat Henry, Electrical Supervisor
Jason Klinger, Council Exempt Vice Chair, Asst. VP for Marketing, Content & Creative
Janie Kreines, Curator of Exhibitions and Engagement
Jennifer Miller, Council Non-Exempt Vice Chair, Office of Student Affairs
Kelly Schenke ’95, Council Communications Officer, Academic Department      Coordinator
Andrea Sherman, Senior Accounting Analyst
Enrique Sotomayor, Custodial Manager
Stephanie Stoehr, Institutional Biosafety Officer and Teaching Professor of Biology
Emily Wilson ’11, Research Lab Manager and Technician
    
We are currently in the process of sharing our findings from year one (including many great ideas we heard from you!) with President Altmann, Human Resources, and other campus partners, and we will soon work to prioritize follow-up action plans for the coming months. Keep an eye out for more news from us and for ways you can get involved.
    
To help us keep our ear to the ground and continue to shape our goals for year two, please use our Staff Council Suggestion Box or email us at staffcouncil@fandm.edu with comments, questions, and ideas. Also feel free to reach out to any of us individually or stop us on campus to chat.    

Be in touch, support one another as we continue to work to support you, and keep doing all the wonderful things you do across campus to make this extraordinary place run. Happy Fall!

To help us keep our ear to the ground and continue to shape our goals for year two, please use our Staff Council Suggestion Box or email us at staffcouncil@fandm.edu with comments, questions, and ideas. Also feel free to reach out to any of us individually or stop us on campus to chat.

Be in touch, support one another as we continue to work to support you, and keep doing all the wonderful things you do across campus to make this extraordinary place run. Happy Fall!

Sincerely,

Lydia Brubaker

On behalf of Staff Council