"Ombuds Office" Archive

A message from the University Ombuds

The following is a guest post from Jill Crainshaw, Wake Forest University faculty and staff ombuds.

Photo of Jill Crainshaw, Wake Forest University ombuds, vice dean for faculty development and academic initiatives and Blackburn Professor of Worship and Liturgical Theology

Professor Jill Crainshaw, University ombuds and vice dean for faculty development and academic initiatives

Do you seek a confidential sounding board for a work-related idea or question that is on your mind? An active listener? A strategy for responding to a tangled situation in your daily work?

In Spring 2021, Wake Forest established an Ombuds Office as a resource to provide informal, confidential, impartial and independent resolution for all Reynolda Campus faculty and staff – both full and part-time.

What is an ombuds?

Here at Wake Forest, the ombuds helps faculty and staff to resolve workplace problems and gives general feedback to University administrators on observed trends and patterns related to overall workplace health. Read more

Updates from HR: COVID updates, COVID Contributors, social groups and events

COVID Contributors needed

If able, colleagues are encouraged to Show Humanitate by offering their time to assist with the various needs that directly support our students and COVID Initiatives across campus.

Learn more on Our Way Forward. Ice-covered trees in front of the Wait Chapel spire and clock

Our Way Forward updates

Your hub for information and answers to the most frequently asked questions about Wake Forest during the pandemic has been updated with helpful information for faculty and staff, including:

Learn more on the Our Way Forward: Faculty & Staff page.

Employee vaccine survey

Colleagues can self-identify their personal work circumstances, update their response or indicate they have received a vaccine by completing the Employee Survey.

View the COVID-19 vaccine information page on Our Way Forward.

WFQ Lunch Social: Feb. 19

LGBTQ+ identifying faculty and staff are invited to connect with WFQ colleagues for a lunch social. Email lgbtq@wfu.edu to join the WFQ group and get the Zoom link.

Information is available at lgbtq.wfu.edu.

A Woman in the White House: Feb. 23

Wake NOW (Network of Women) and the Wake Washington Center invite colleagues to join a nonpartisan virtual panel to celebrate the historic election of America’s first Black and South Asian-American female Vice President, Kamala Harris.

Register at alumni.wfu.edu.

Caregiver Coffee Break: Feb. 25

Join a judgement free space for parents and caregivers of all genders to share challenges and offer peer support and resources to one another.

Register on the PDC website.

New Ombuds Office established

ICYMI: WFU has established an Ombuds Office as a resource to provide informal, confidential, impartial and independent resolution of conflicts, disputes or issues to all Reynolda Campus faculty and staff.

Read the story on Inside WFU.

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