[Rankism] Rankism Discussion

[Colon, Nancy]

All:

 

First, Glyn, I'd like to compliment you on your article in RichmondNow.  It was very interesting, and definitely a general conversation we need to continue on campus.

 

Secondly, I wanted to bring up something related to the discussion we had in our last meeting about the population on campus that does not work with computers daily and the incident we had on campus earlier this week.  I asked the cleaning staff member in our building and also the cashier's at Tyler's Grill about how they received notification of the incident and the lockdown of the campus.  Fortunately, they were all off-duty by the time the incident was made known to the campus.  However, none of them would have been aware of it unless a manager or someone else in the building had notified them personally.  None of them knew about the emergency notification system or how to sign up for it in Banner.  In fact, our cleaning staff person had never heard of Banner Web and did not have an account to log on to until I helped her with it this morning.  (As an aside, she was also pleased to learn that she could add to her Spider Card account online, too.)  What was surprising was that once she got into Banner Web and pulled up her emergency contact information, nothing was entered in under her name.  

 

This leads me to wonder if there might be a place for our committee to act on this issue.  Can we talk with the cleaning staff in our buildings to make sure they are set-up in Banner Web with the correct emergency contact information?  Can we encourage facilities managers and HR to make this an important issue in the next couple of months?  Hopefully, in the future we won't have a need for the emergency system to activate, but if it does we should make sure that all staff are notified as best as possible.

 

~ Nancy

 

Nancy Colón

Office of International Taxation

G-13 Maryland Hall

University of Richmond

University of Richmond, VA  23173

(tel)   804-287-6007

(fax)  804-287-6080

(website)  http://controller.richmond.edu/tax/ <http://controller.richmond.edu/tax/> 

 

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