When you move from one office to another on campus or change your home address, what steps do you need to take to notify the university?
Until now updating personal information in Cornell's various directories has been cumbersome, time-consuming and involved updating the same information in many different places. Cornell Information Technologies (CIT), the Office of Human Resources and the Office of Communication Strategies have been working together to simplify the process. (Note: None of this information applies to students.)
Now Cornell faculty and staff can use Employee Essentials and Who I Am both of which are located online on the Bear Access Launch Pad to update much of their personal information. Then the appropriate information will be propagated to the Cornell Electronic Directory, the human resources system and the next edition of the paper Cornell University Telephone Directory.
If you work for Cornell-affiliated institutions, such as Boyce Thompson Institute (BTI), USDA, CRESP or Cornell United Religious Work (CURW), you are unable to use Employee Essentials and, thus, must use Who I Am to generate and maintain your complete individual listings in the Cornell University Telephone Directory and Cornell Electronic Directory. Some affiliates who are adjunct faculty members may have information in Employee Essentials and will need to check both places as described above to view their complete entries.
Later this month all Cornell faculty, staff and affiliates will be mailed a flyer with brief, simple instructions for checking and updating their personal information using this new process. The deadline for updating personal entries to ensure inclusion in the Fall 1997 Cornell University Telephone Directory and the Cornell Electronic Directory is Sept. 18.
The Cornell Workplace of Aug. 7, 1997, contained extensive information about this new approach in the lead article titled "Process for Updating Personal Information Simplified." It included a chart and common questions and answers, and the article can be found on the Web at http://www.cornell.edu/Admin/Workplace/WPCurr.html.
If you have questions about these changes or need additional information, you can:
· Talk with your HR/payroll representative about this project.
· Send e-mail to phone-dir@cornell.edu or check the following Web site: http://www.cit.cornell.edu/cit-pubs/phonedir/.
· Call or e-mail the ATS HelpDesk at 119 Computing and Communications Center (CCC), phone: 255-8990, e-mail: helpdesk@cornell.edu or Web: http://www.cit.cornell.edu/helpdesk/.