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Are you a supervisor of a new employee? This onboarding guide is for YOU!
Many people think the onboarding process lasts one month to 90 days; however, onboarding is a journey with many steps taken by the new employee in the first year to become fully integrated into their job and the department.
Originator: Kailey Kilcrease            Posted On :   5/20/2024
Departmental * Human Resources Training 

NEW COURSE Summer 2024! History & Philosophy of Extension Education
Learn about the origins and development of public education programs related to producers, consumers, and families.
Originator: Ashlee Murden            Posted On :   5/21/2024
Academic 

NEW! Human Sciences Education & Training Grad Certificate
Designed for Human Sciences & FCSE students who want to enhance their knowledge, skillsets, and employment possibilities by adding expertise in education and training.
Originator: Ashlee Murden            Posted On :   5/20/2024
Academic 

LOOKING FOR AN INTERESTING, PRACTICAL ELECTIVE COURSE? NEED HELP WITH ADULTING?
FCSE 2300: Adulting 101, Real Skills for Real Life is offered again this SUMMER! Register now and see what immediately applicable skills you can gain for real life!
Originator: Ashlee Murden            Posted On :   5/21/2024
Academic 

Host an Event for Family Weekend! Priority Deadline is TODAY
Submit your event to be included on the Family Weekend 2024 calendar. Priority submission deadline is May 17, 2024.
Originator: Morgan Brannon            Posted On :   5/17/2024
Arts & Entertainment * Athletics * Departmental 

Course announcement: BTEC:5001-102 Single Cell Genomics
Learn about key topics in Biotechnology this Summer I in BTEC:5001-102 Topics in Biotechnology: Single-Cell Genomics. Register today!
Originator: Shannon Sears            Posted On :   5/21/2024
Academic 

Supplemental Instruction is Hiring for the Fall 2024 Semester!
If you're interested in becoming an SI Leader, fill out our application!
Originator: Erika Soto            Posted On :   5/21/2024
Academic * Student Employment/Career Opportunities 

Now Hiring Personal Trainers and F45 Coaches
Looking for a rewarding job in a fun work environment? UREC Fitness and Wellness is hiring for Certified Personal Trainers and F45 coaches.
Originator: Brittany Doak            Posted On :   5/21/2024
Rec Sports Programming * Student Employment/Career Opportunities 

Core Lab Science Online- BIOL 1113 & BIOL 1305 - Summer II
Fulfill one lab science core requirement summer II from home, with an asynchronous, fully online version of Ecology and Environmental Problems (BIOL1305-D31) and Environmental Problems Lab (BIOL1113-D01)

Originator: Deborah Carr            Posted On :   5/21/2024
Academic 

Now Accepting 2024 Distinguished Staff Award Nominations
We encourage you to nominate outstanding staff members who have demonstrated excellence, leadership, and exemplary service for a Distinguished Staff Award.

Originator: Kailey Kilcrease            Posted On :   5/17/2024
Departmental * Human Resources Training 

Calling all students, faculty, and staff! Heights of Victory Needs You!
Want to join in on the action at the newly built South End Zone of the Jones AT&T Stadium? Heights of Victory is hiring bartenders, suite attendants, and support staff to work home football games this upcoming season.
Originator: Dee Nguyen            Posted On :   5/20/2024
Student Employment/Career Opportunities 

Discounted Domestic FedEx and UPS Shipping at CopyMail!
CopyMail offers students & faculty/staff discounted rates for FedEx & UPS domestic personal and business mailing needs! Stop by for printing, copying, shipping and more. Convenient location, SUB basement, that will save you time and money!
Originator: Wendy Vander Haeghen            Posted On :   5/21/2024
Departmental 

UREC Massage Package!
Did you know University Recreation offers massages? You can purchase a 4-pack for only $130 or an individual massage for $45.

Originator: Brittany Doak            Posted On :   5/21/2024
Rec Sports Programming 

Applications open for STEM Research Assistance Program
The purpose of the Research Assistance Program is to help faculty increase research productivity and external proposal submissions. Additional information and the application can be found at https://ttu.infoready4.com/#competitionDetail/1934915.
Originator: Karen Michael            Posted On :   5/17/2024
Research * Departmental 

Interested in working with children?
Take HDFS/EC 3313 during Summer I and work directly with children this summer. This experiential learning is valuable to any student interested in working with children in education, health professions, and health and human services settings
Originator: Dana Weiser            Posted On :   5/20/2024
Academic * Departmental 

STEM & STEM ed majors: Making plans for grad school? Check out this fellowship!
The National Science Foundation offers a $37,000 fellowship for graduate students (eligibility requirements apply). 2025 graduates are invited to start writing a competitive application in our NSF GRFP summer writing group. Learn more here!
Originator: Rebecca Bruning            Posted On :   5/21/2024
Academic * Departmental 

Texas Tech University Small and Historically Underutilized Business Expo
Welcome, friends, to this year’s most vibrant small business expo! Prepare to immerse yourself in a fiesta-themed small business expo. Don't miss your chance to network with some of your local and contracted vendors!
Originator: Andrew Turnipseed            Posted On :   5/21/2024
Departmental * Faculty/Staff Organization 

Graduate Students – join us to brush up on academic writing basics!
If you have concerns about grammar, sentence structure, paraphrasing, or paragraphing, or you’d just like an overall refresher on graduate writing basics, check out the Graduate Writing Center Foundational Writing Skills intensives!
RSVP by 5/28.
Originator: Rebecca Bruning            Posted On :   5/20/2024
Academic 

School of Art Pre-College Immersion Program!
Do you have an incoming 9th - 12th grader who loves Fine Art? This is just the summer program for them!
Originator: Tonja Hagy-Valdine            Posted On :   5/20/2024
Departmental 

CASH AND CREDIT MANAGEMENT SERVICES OPERATIONS- TTU PLAZA BUILDING CLOSURE
TTU Plaza Building will be closed for renovations from 5/10 – 7/1. During this time, all transactions normally conducted at Cash and Credit Management Services should instead take place at West Hall in Room 333.
Originator: Nicole Bentley            Posted On :   5/20/2024
Departmental 

MASTER OF SCIENCE IN MARKETING RESEARCH AND ANALYTICS
Learn the latest techniques for analyzing data as it pertains to marketing research! Fall 2024 Deadline is August 1st.

Originator: David Sobo            Posted On :   5/17/2024
Academic 

STEM MBA
In just one or two years, gain the business skills you need to get the job you want! The priority deadline for Fall 2024 is August 1st.
Originator: David Sobo            Posted On :   5/20/2024
Academic 

100% Online MBA
Get the business skills you need to get the job you want from a nationally ranked MBA program in the U.S. Deadline for Fall 2024 is August 1st.
Originator: David Sobo            Posted On :   5/21/2024
Academic 

PROCUREMENT SERVICES OPERATIONS - TTU PLAZA BUILDING CLOSURE
TTU Plaza Building will be closed for renovations from 5/13 – 6/28. During this time, Procurement Services will have a pop-up location with limited staffing at Holden Hall, room 151.
Originator: Chris Gerik            Posted On :   5/20/2024
Academic * Departmental * Faculty/Staff Organization 

Working on a writing project over the summer intersession?
The UWC will offer limited numbers of asynchronous, written feedback consultations during summer intersession. No matter what writing project you're working on, we've got you covered!

Originator: Dustin Florence            Posted On :   5/20/2024
Academic 

Calling for Proposals/Presentations for our HSI Summit!!
If you are interested in presenting some of your work related to your HSI designation, or even progress/best practices with your Title V/HSI grant(s), we strongly recommend you fill out our call for proposals form below.
Originator: Sasha Gonzalez            Posted On :   5/21/2024
Lectures & Seminars * Departmental * Faculty/Staff Organization 

Complete a survey and enter a drawing for a $25 Amazon Gift card!!
If you are 18 years or older, we invite you to complete a 10-15 min survey about health, nutrition and whole grain intake to win a $25 Amazon gift card.
Originator: Andrea Sosa Cuevas            Posted On :   5/21/2024
Research 

Microsoft to retire a voicemail setting that relates to Outlook calendar events
Microsoft has announced that automatic activation of out of office voicemail greetings based on out of office calendar events will be retired in June 2024.
Originator: IT Help Central            Posted On :   5/21/2024
IT Announcements 

Fall 2024 course open to UG & grad students: Musics of the African Diaspora
Fall 2024, open to Grad/UG from across the TTU campus, TR 12:30-1:50pm. All welcome, and please pass the word!
Originator: Chris Smith            Posted On :   5/20/2024
Academic 

Come play musics of the world in our TTU Folk Orchestra!
The TTU Celtic Ensemble is recruiting for Fall 2024! Seeking singers, players, dancers, cosplayers, gamers, coders, LARPers, actors, and designers. Come and play with us in the Multiverse of Bassanda!
Originator: Chris Smith            Posted On :   5/21/2024
Arts & Entertainment 

Unlock your future with German!
Boost your career readiness with German, available in person and asynchronous online.

Originator: Belinda Kleinhans            Posted On :   5/21/2024
Academic 

TELUS Mental Health Support
Call. Chat. Anytime. Anywhere. TELUS connects students with free, confidential emotional health and wellbeing support conveniently available 24/7 via the app, telephone and web.

Sign up today at https://myssp.app/ca/signup
Originator: Lisa Viator            Posted On :   5/21/2024
Departmental 

Private Telehealth Space
Need a safe and private space for confidential Zoom health and wellness meetings? Contact the Student Counseling Center at 806.742.3674.

Originator: Lisa Viator            Posted On :   5/21/2024
Departmental 

Are you a puppy owner? We want to identify the right chew toy for your puppy!
TTU’s Human-Animal Interaction Lab and Canine Olfaction Lab invite you and your puppy to participate in new research projects exploring the influence of chew toys on puppy behavior! Click on the link to learn more!
Originator: Rituparna Sonowal            Posted On :   5/20/2024
Research 

Summer History of Rock and Roll online!
The History of Rock and Roll introduces students to the styles and history of the first three decades of rock & roll, and includes video lectures, listening modules, online discussions, and web-based quizzes and exams.
Originator: Roger Landes            Posted On :   5/16/2024
Academic 

Distance CHEM 1306 Offered Summer 2024!
Are you interested in drugs, plastics, metabolism, food production, energy production, clean air and water? CHEM 1306 will show you how chemistry plays a role in everything we do on this planet using a nonmathematical approach!

Originator: Adrienne Pedrech            Posted On :   5/17/2024
Academic 

Terminated Account Codes
Procurement Services and Accounting Services will be terminating the following account codes: 7G0002, 7G0012, 7G0011, 7G0056, 7G0086, 7G0104, 7G0103, 7G0036, 7B0070, 7B0080, 7B1120, and 7B1130.
Originator: Andrew Turnipseed            Posted On :   5/20/2024
Departmental 

Need a core natural sciences requirement this summer?
BIOL 1402 (Biology of Animals) is being offered in person during the first summer session (Summer 1). This is a fun and interesting way to fulfill one of your lab science requirements in just 4 weeks!
Originator: Carrie Monje            Posted On :   5/16/2024
Academic 

Interested in becoming Pilates Reformer Instructor?
Interested in becoming Pilates Reformer Instructor?
Originator: Johanna Valencia            Posted On :   5/20/2024
Rec Sports Programming * Student Employment/Career Opportunities 

Specialty Fitness Instructors wanted- UREC
Specialty Fitness Instructors wanted- UREC
Originator: Johanna Valencia            Posted On :   5/20/2024
Rec Sports Programming * Student Employment/Career Opportunities 

Participants need for a simulated firefighting computer game!
You will get $15 for individual participation and $90 for the highest performing team.

To participate click on the link:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe6nXbSgGHDHZCiEC__NBeSvwVRTP_MYhXj_a3qt6mvFQojpQ/viewform?usp=sf_link
Originator: Armina Rahman Mim            Posted On :   5/20/2024
Research 

Join us for our Summer Learning Series via Zoom!
This summer we will be covering Mastering Difficult Conversations, Creating Accountability, Stress Management and Leading Student Employees.
Originator: Kailey Kilcrease            Posted On :   5/21/2024
Faculty/Staff Organization * Human Resources Training 

DMFR is pleased to announce the launch of the new Resource Catalog
The Resource Catalog is a single platform integrating various resources available to TTU employees. Previously separate resources like the Account Crosswalk and Account Codes Description are now seamlessly integrated within this Resource Catalog.
Originator: Fabiola Carrion Anampa            Posted On :   5/21/2024
Data Management for Financial Resources (DMFR) 

SUMMER 2: SOC 2380 Sociology of the Movies
Are you looking for an exciting elective to take in Summer 2? Check out SOC 2380! During this course, we will be watching fan favorite films, while discussing why it is important that these movies and their messages are given to the public.

Originator: Zoe Andrews            Posted On :   5/20/2024
Academic