Wake Forest encourages students, faculty and staff to familiarize themselves with the University’s emergency notification system known as Wake Alert.

Wake Alert provides information and advisories via a number of communication channels, including the Wake Alert website, text messaging, an outdoor warning system, campus cable TV, e-mail, Twitter, voice mail and a recorded message on the Wake Forest Weather and Emergency Phone Line.

More details are available on a new site loaded with emergency preparedness information, Wake Ready.

University Police Chief Regina Lawson recommends the following:

• Register for text alerts available to students, faculty and staff. Undergraduates are required to register. See the signup instructions on Wake Ready.
• Bookmark the Wake Alert website (http://wakealert.wfu.edu).  It will be the go-to site for announcements in emergencies.
• Follow @WakeAlert on Twitter.  Emergency announcements that appear on the Wake Alert website will also appear on the Twitter account.
• Store the telephone number on your phones for the Wake Forest Weather/Emergency line, 336-758-5935.
• Connect your campus TV to the University cable TV system, which will broadcast emergency announcements to campus TVs.
• Visit the Wake Ready website and read the emergency preparedness and related information on it.

IS Service Desk Will Close at 1 p.m. on Friday, May 25:
On Friday, May 25, the Information Systems Service Desk, located at The Bridge, will close at 1 p.m. There will be no phone, email, or walk-in support after 1 p.m. All services will resume on Tuesday, May 29, at 8 a.m. (NOTE: The Z. Smith Reynolds Library also will close at 1 p.m. on May 25.)

Wireless Network Outage from 7-9 a.m. on Saturday, May 26
On Saturday, May 26, between 7-9 a.m., the campus wireless network will be unavailable while Information Systems staff perform an upgrade.

As a reminder, the University reserves each Saturday from 7 a.m.-noon for regularly scheduled maintenance on campus computing services. Services may include WIN, email, Sakai and network connectivity, as well as Banner and its peripheral applications. This maintenance may cause momentary or extended interruptions to various systems and services during this period each week without advance communication. In cases where the work will start earlier or extend past the designated timeframe, we communicate with our customers who are affected.

Wake Forest employees can review their July 1, 2012, benefit elections in WF@Work via WIN (https://win.wfu.edu/).

To view the elections, select the Current Benefits Statement link in WF@Work. You’ll have the option of viewing your current benefit elections or your future dated benefit elections. If you need to change your July 1, 2012, benefit elections, please submit your request by email to AskHR@wfu.edu. All changes must be submitted by Friday, May 25.

If you have a 2011-2012 Flexible Spending Account, please make sure to spend your money by June 30, 2012. You have until Sept. 30, 2012, to submit claims for reimbursement.

Facilities and Campus Services has announced this update on Carroll Weathers Drive construction: Final portions of road/curb/gutter/sidewalk/lighting/landscape improvements will resume May 22 and conclude before the start of the fall semester.

Access north/south will remain open this summer through the W1 parking lot via a clearly marked detour path. Construction crews will post signage on May 22 that clearly identifies the detour path through W1 lot.

See a Wake Forest parking map [PDF] »

The Central Heating Plant annual shut down for maintenance and inspections will begin on Monday, May 21, at 3 p.m. The steam outage will disable building heating and domestic hot water systems campuswide. The boilers will be restarted Friday, May 25, at 3 p.m. Barring any delays, steam pressure will be back to normal by 7 p.m. on Friday May 25.

Customer Service Notice: During the shutdown, telephone calls made to extension 4255 will not be answered after 5 p.m. If you should have an emergency after 5 p.m. and before 8 a.m. during the week, you should contact University Police Dispatch at ext. 5591.

If you have any questions, please contact Customer Service at  ext. 4255.

To Reynolda Campus staff:

Commencement is the highlight of our academic year.  It is a wonderful time for the campus community to come together and celebrate with graduating students and their families. This year’s Commencement ceremony will be held Monday, May 21, on Hearn Plaza, beginning at 9 a.m.

It is always important for us to be gracious hosts to our visitors and make sure their access to campus is as easy as possible. This year will be more challenging than recent years considering the amount of construction underway on campus and our recent loss of 350 parking spaces. To make this the best commencement experience possible for our graduates and guests, please observe the following guidelines:

• Faculty and staff should not attempt to park on campus before 1 p.m. on the day of commencement. Passes, which have been issued to graduates and their families, will be required for all cars entering campus.

• Faculty and staff who need parking should park at BB&T Field and ride the shuttle to campus. Enter the stadium parking lot through the Deacon Boulevard entrance and follow the signs to the parking area and the shuttle pickup point. Shuttles will run continuously throughout the day from 5:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. A Wake Forest ID will be needed to access the shuttle.

• Faculty and staff may park on campus after 1 p.m.

• Reynolda Campus staff who do not have a direct commencement responsibility need not report for work until 9:30 a.m. on Monday, unless otherwise required by their department. Non-exempt staff may record the hours not worked that morning as administrative leave.

• Please have your Wake Forest I.D. with you at all times on campus during commencement.

In case of rain, the Commencement ceremony will be held at Joel Coliseum, beginning at 9:30 a.m. Parking on campus will not be affected if the ceremony is held at the coliseum.

Thank you your cooperation and understanding.

Sincerely,

Hof Milam
Senior Vice President for Administration and Finance

Marcum

The following faculty had writings published in April 2012:

Goddard, Jason & Bill Marcum. (Business). Real Estate Investment: A Value Based Approach. Springer. April 2012.

Wong, Yue-Ling. (Computer Science). Digital Media Primer, 2nd edition. Prentice Hall. February 2012.

• Mary M. Dalton presented “Integrating Entrepreneurship into the Traditional Documentary Curriculum” at the Broadcast Education Association Conference in Las Vegas on April 16, 2012.
• Candyce Leonard published the book Teatro espanol del siglo XXI: actos de globalizacion (Winston-Salem, Editorial Teatro)

Starting May 14, Wake Forest employees can review their July 1, 2012, benefit elections in WF@Work via WIN (https://win.wfu.edu/).

To view the elections, select the Current Benefits Statement link in WF@Work. You’ll have the option of viewing your current benefit elections or your future dated benefit elections. If you need to change your July 1, 2012, benefit elections, please submit your request by email to AskHR@wfu.edu. All changes must be submitted by Friday, May 25.

If you have a 2011-2012 Flexible Spending Account, please make sure to spend your money by June 30, 2012. You have until Sept. 30, 2012, to submit claims for reimbursement.

“We’ve had more than 300 students, faculty and staff agree to short-term solutions to alleviate parking problems in the spring semester created by the construction of two new residence halls and a dining center,” said Alex Crist, director of parking and transportation. “Now we have created a long-term plan that will start with students re-registering their cars this summer for the fall semester.”

Crist outlined this plan at a Campus Connections meeting that drew about 250 people to Benson Center on May 3. It’s a plan that he has been developing with Jim Alty, the associate vice president of Facilities and Campus Services, through meetings with Student Government, Faculty Senate and the Staff Advisory Council in the last few weeks.

Here’s what to expect this fall: Continue reading »