Hi folks

We have a full time Facilities Operations Manager and we are looking to update his job description (it’s been about 4 years). In doing this, I thought it would be helpful to see what other people have on their job descriptions for a full-time facilities person. It might jog our memories or inspire our thoughts on things he ‘just does’…

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(Cross-posted to Facilities & Ops)

Hello!

We are looking to offer some portable device charging options, with checkout at our front desk. I’m wondering if anyone has used a product like the linked one below. We do not want a standalone unit for many reasons, and would like to manage it from our Information Desk with tap card checkouts through…

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Hello!

We are looking to offer some portable device charging options, with checkout at our front desk. I’m wondering if anyone has used a product like the linked one below. We do not want a standalone unit for many reasons, and would like to manage it from our Information Desk with tap card checkouts through a checkout system we already have…

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Hello friends!

We have a Sustainability Community meetup while at ACUI in NYC. Please join me on Wednesday, March 19 from 7:30-8:30am (I know, it’s early) in the Gilbert Room on the 4th floor. Please bring your breakfast and coffee!
we will discuss what’s going on on our campuses, in our unions, and just get to know others who are looking to do…

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Hello friends!

We have a Sustainability Community meetup while at ACUI in NYC. Please join me on Wednesday, March 19 from 7:30-8:30am (I know, it’s early) in the Gilbert Room on the 4th floor. Please bring your breakfast and coffee!
we will discuss what’s going on on our campuses, in our unions, and just get to know others who are looking to do…

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Hi folks

We have a staff of about 80 student staff over 4 positions in the building, and we are looking at the possibility of new shift scheduling software. It needs to allow for students to input either their availability for shifts, or their restrictions, whichever way the system works. And we need some options to auto populate…

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Hi Ricardo! 
We are using the company Sound-Machine.com and really like them. It allows us to customize playlists for different areas. We can do this through a Spotify playlist link or through their system of picking percentages of music genres we want added to a playlist. It's worked out well for us and has also allowed us to have more… Read more

Hello Sustainability Folks

I subscribe to AASHE’s listserves and thought I would share some relevant to Unions/Student Activities topics here for y’all.?

Recently there was a question and thread about green event planning. Here are a couple of responses. I’d love to hear if any of you have green event certifications, planning processes,…

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Hi Cortney!

We had a similar system for the last 10 years and we are transitioning (January 1st) to a new system with way less employee types. We are moving from 4 levels of event/set up staff, 2 levels of building managers, game room attendants and front desk workers to the following model:

Building and Events Managers (oversee all…

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Hello Facilities folks

I just wanted to put a quick plug here for the Sustainability Community of Practice. It’s been pretty quiet there the last few years, but I’ve just started as the new leader and I’m excited to move us forward and get some good discussions going. Sustainability and Facilities go hand in hand, and many of you might have…

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Hello Sustainability Friends

I’m excited to be the Community of Practice Leader for this academic year.

To get us started, I’ve scheduled a Sustainability Virtual Meet Up for Thursday, November 14th from 12-1 Eastern Time, Zoom link here. I’m hoping this is a good enough middle ground time wise. At this meet up I hope to do some…

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Hi!
We are also in the path of totality! Here is the link to what our town is doing. It includes our campus items as well. https://www.cityofoxford.org/_T27_R114.php 
We do a lot of town/gown programming combined in the Uptown Park on a regular basis, so this is an extra special group effort. There are lectures with faculty that are open to… Read more

We provide all staff with Armstrong Student Center t-shirts, long sleeves and now a crew neck sweatshirt (they were so cold!). We are no longer ordering Polos because we find them to not be size friendly/inclusive and most students just hate them (as does our office), so we are just handing the rest out to people who want them. We don’t have…

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Hi Koriana

Our dress code feels like it is always in flux, and the students push back on it often. We have recently loosened up some of our policies because the student reasoning made sense. One of the new policy changes is that we used to allow staff shirts and student club shirts, but didn’t allow Greek life shirts because of the…

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I’m one year into my job overseeing event operations (and also supervising the person who oversees building operations), I also now oversee the student staff experience (hiring, training, appreciation, evaluations, exiting) for all positions, and sustainability measures.

• Shared expectations for all jobs
• Update all job descriptions
• Learn how…

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Hi Chrissie
As I’m rebuilding some of our student employee experience, one thing I’m focusing on is the shadowing for training. I am thinking about google forms with a spreadsheet that is view only to the students who lead the shadowing. That way, I can go back and see who has done what and how their leader feels about their ability after… Read more

Hi Brad – we use EMS and link it to 7Point Solutions for our event information. 1. How many non-ballroom meeting rooms do you have? 8 Conference/meeting rooms, 1 senate chamber, 7 study rooms that are big enough that we can book them for small meetings outside of the study room system, so they must be booked 2 weeks in advance before they… Read more

Hi folks
Back when I worked at RIT we had just started a food share program that has been extremely successful. I don’t know if they use a software system, but it’s worth reaching out to William St. Jean. He’s been there since it’s inception, and I do believe it started as a residence life initiative back then and now it’s a whole program on… Read more