Below you will find HR News for university employees including training, benefits,
compensation, payroll, and other news of importance. For news specific to UA Benefits
including archived news, please see our Benefits News site.
Human Resources News
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March 05, 2025
All benefit-eligible employees are encouraged to stay up to date on valuable information from the benefits team.
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March 05, 2025
Learn strategies to talk with your teen about, and identify symptoms of, depression, suicide and eating disorders in this engaging webinar.
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Boost Your Workplace Well-being This Month!
March 05, 2025
Feeling stressed or overwhelmed? We’ve got you covered! This month, the UA HR Talent Acquisition and Development Team brings you a Workplace Well-being spotlight packed with strategies to manage stress, ease anxiety, and prevent burnout.
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Managing Worry and Anxiety (3/6)
February 21, 2025
This training will address how worry habits develop and methods of intervening with worry and anxiety.
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Healthy Lifestyles: Changing the Way You Think About Diet and Exercise (2/27)
February 21, 2025
This workshop provides an overview of safe and effective strategies to improve overall fitness through manageable changes in diet and exercise.
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Did You Know - Direct Deposit Management in UAOnline
February 21, 2025
Setting up your payroll direct deposit is convenient, secure and gives you immediate access to your funds.
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Drug Free Schools and Communities Act Announcement
February 17, 2025
The Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act Amendments of 1989 require that universities receiving federal financial assistance provide annual information on drug and alcohol use to promote healthy lifestyles and prevent the unlawful possession, use, or distribution of illicit drugs and alcohol by all students and employees.
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UPDATE - State of Alaska Cybersecurity Issues Impacting Retirement Contributions
February 07, 2025
On 2/7/2025, the University of Alaska (UA) was informed that the Division of Retirement and Benefits payroll reporting application is back online. The Division is now implementing a phased approach to bring all Division employers back online and process the backlog of plan contributions (both employee and employer).
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Meet the Human Resources Leadership Team
February 07, 2025
The HR leadership team met up in Anchorage for their mid-year strategy session on January 27 & 28 to review FY25 and strategize for FY26.
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Communicating the Tough Stuff to Your Child: Drugs, Alcohol, Sex and Peer Pressure (Feb. 13th)
February 07, 2025
It can be tough to be a teenager today--and tough to be a parent of a teenager. This workshop helps parents learn communication methods to talk to their teens.