Fiscal Officer Meeting
Thursday, March 19, 2009
Ernie Cornford - Miscellaneous
• PeopleSoft Certification
• Everyone on fiscal officer list must go
through certification every six months.
• Send me email if you want to add to fiscal
officer list.
• Meeting notifications will be put on Outlook
as appointments.
Cost Savers
• Eliminate the Non-PO voucher with travel
vouchers.
– Non-PO voucher must still be entered in PS
and number recorded on travel voucher
– Travel vouchers with no voucher numbers will
be returned
– Non-PO voucher will not be reviewed by
Accounting. Revise form?
– TRIP still coming - TBA
Cost Savers – cont’d
• Elimination of pay remittance advice
– On MyHR
– YTD only for current period
– Prints on two pages
– Was to start July 1, but may be delayed due
to start of 1% to 2% pension contribution
Transition Assistance
Program
Errol Benson
Triton Connect
Randall Vogan
Linda Gatson
Triton Connect
Background
• Each year, participants in the
Administrative Leadership Development
Program (ALDP) select a project to enrich
their campus
• The 2008 UMSL ALDP class focused their
attention on a project that would increase
the engagement of faculty and staff
– Targeted benefits included an improvement of
morale and increased employee retention
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Project Selected:
TRITON
CONNECT
UMSL’s online
community
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Connect
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What is it?
• An online discussion site, available to
UMSL faculty and staff, that provides
opportunities to connect with others on
campus with similar professional and/or
personal interests
• Arranged in the following treelike structure:
Categories or broad subject areas
Forums or specific subject areas
 Threads or topics of conversation
 Posts or individuals messages within each thread
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Connect
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How do you access it?
• To access Triton Connect, UMSL faculty or
staff must first log on to the campus
network
• They may then link to Triton Connect from
MyGateway (coming soon) or by entering
the following URL:
https://tritonconnect.umsl.edu/
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How does it work?
• After entering the Triton Connect website,
UMSL faculty or staff can select a forum of
interest under various categories or
subject areas
– They may then begin a new discussion under
that forum or read/respond to an existing
discussion
• A moderator will be assigned to each
forum to monitor existing discussions
within the forum and promote new
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Demonstration
View of the
home page
Category
Forums
Example 1: Click on the “Getting Started” forum
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Demonstration
Example 1: Click on the “New User” discussion or thread
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Demonstration
Click on logo
to return to
home page
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Connect
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Demonstration
You must log in to post messages or view the calendar
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Budget Items
Joann Wilkinson