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Save the date for the 2023 open enrollment period: October 16 to November 3, 2023. Outside a qualifying life event, this period is the only time you may select and make changes to your 2024 coverage. To aid in your decision-making, the Benefits team will hold Open Enrollment fairs at each campus. Click here to learn more and to find your campus' fair date.

The HR Training & Development team is pleased to announce a revised schedule for New Hire Orientation. Highlights include a hybrid model, a shift to afternoon sessions and breaking the traditional one-day session into two separate days. Click to learn more about this exciting new format, especially if you're a hiring manager or supervisor!

Human Resources Employee Benefits is pleased to announce an addition to the team! Some of you may remember this familiar name — Sheba Marshall returns to Â鶹¾«Ñ¡as Interim Executive Director of Employee Benefits & Wellness.

The amount of federal income tax withheld from your paycheck is determined by the information that you provide on Federal Form W-4. Â鶹¾«Ñ¡ is unable to assist you in completing your W-4. However, the IRS provides offers a on its website.

To review your W-4, go to Top Employee Resources within , choose Tax Forms, and then W-4 Employee’s Withholding Allowance Certificate. 

Â鶹¾«Ñ¡Employee Wellness is excited to host Teladoc representative, Beau Cobb. He is coming to Kent Campus to provide an overview of the free Livongo (through Teladoc Health) programming available to benefits-eligible Â鶹¾«Ñ¡employees. In-person events are available June 12 and virtual sessions are now available June 15. Wellness sessions eligible for 10 Tier 2 wellness points.

Managers and supervisors should have received information from the Controller's Office regarding the cut-off dates for financial transactions for the current fiscal year, which ends on June 30. View the deadlines for receipt of information and other year-end announcements online at www.kent.edu/controller under the Fiscal Year End Cut-off Dates tab.  The Controller's Office appreciates timely submissions of documents to ensure that a timely year-end cut-off has occurred.

In the wake of the recent tragic shooting at a Louisville, Kentucky bank, our Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Impact Solutions, wants to remind everyone that it is normal to experience a wide range of emotions and that an EAP can offer support. To speak with a mental health clinician, reach out to your employee assistance program anytime at 1-800-227-6007 or . The program is 100% confidential, free to use, and it is available to family members.

Â鶹¾«Ñ¡Environmental Health & Safety (EHS) is pleased to announce two opportunities to receive the 10-hour OSHA certification this summer. Registration is now open for two sessions of the OSHA 10-hour general industry course. This 10-hour safety course helps workers identify, avoid and correct on-the-job hazards. 

Across the College of Podiatric Medicine’s (CPM) over one-hundred-year-old history you will find a remarkable roster of women serving as clinicians, educators, researchers and staff working to make the college what it is today. In honor of Women’s History Month, meet just some of the brilliant women of CPM shaping and supporting the doctors of yesterday, today and tomorrow: