STAFF SENATE ACCOMPLISHMENTS SINCE ITS INCEPTION IN 1993

• Recommended (and was implemented) an Emergency Child care Policy.
• Secured a 2% equity increase for staff with annual salaries below $20,000 two different years.
• Assisted in establishing a Performance Planning and Appraisal tool and continued Senate participation through the review process.
• Participated with the development of a Staff Recognition and Rewards Program, which laid the groundwork for the current rewards program.
• Conducted the Perceptions of the Work Environment Survey two different times. Established goals and provided recommendations based on data from the survey.
• Issued the Report of the Staff Senate Committee on Reengineering. Provided recommendations regarding communication, staffing, workload, training, technology and job classification.
• Established several Staff Senate Committees:
  • Election Commission
  • Hospitality Committee
  • Communications Committee
  • Workplace Environment Committee - 2004
  • Budget Committee
  • Benefits Committee (joint committee with Faculty Senate representatives)
  • Public Relations Committee - 2007
  • Leadership and Development Committee - 2006
• Enhanced communication between faculty and staff via the Campus forum.
• Held annual Senate Planning Retreats to establish new goals and objectives for coming year.
• Established regular monthly meetings with administration.
• Supported open communication through the Staff Senate newsletter and staff forums.
• Refined strategies for recommending budget changes and provided annual budget recommendations to central administration.
• Created publications to better inform staff of Senate activities: The Senator, and the Staff Senate Brochure.
• Worked with Campus Safety to make the campus aware of safety issues.
• Worked with administration to insure a $500 minimum base merit increase.
• Met with the High Commission for Learning regarding UM-Dearborn self study.
• Participated in the creation of the Staff Senate/Faculty Senate benefits committee.
• Developed and submitted Employee Dependent Tuition differential proposal to the administration, which was completed in 2006 and named the Dependent Tuition Scholarship.
• Recommend staff members for seats on Staff Recognition Recomment, Voices of Staff Committee, University Budget Committee and University Benefits Committee as they expire.
• Held luncheons with various units on campus to discuss campus issues. Wrote a report on information gathered and distributed to the appropriate departments for disposition.
• As of 2005, the Senate became responsible for handling the U Make a Difference awards program.
• Distribution of gifts to staff in recognition of their service to the University.
• Endorsement of the Medicare Part B Resolution presented to the Regents that was instrumental in making Medicare Part B retroactive to January 1, 2005, instead of March, 2005 assisting those individual's retiring between January 1 and March access to the benefit.
• 3% salary increase approved by Senior Officers as requested in the 2006-2007 Staff Senate Budget request.

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