Author: Brynn Boyer

Ambassador Rose Likins ’81 has lived all over the world, but calls UMW home.

Please join the Staff Advisory Council (S.A.C.) in participating in the Governor’s announced “Day of Service in Virginia” campaign, now through Saturday, Sept. 29.

If every UMW employee brings just one non-perishable food item to the Eagles in Service donation sites listed below, UMW will collect 869 items to help replenish our area’s food banks.

Donation Locations:

• Marye House
• George Washington Hall, 3^rd Floor
• Facilities Services Lobby
• Jepson Alumni Executive Center Lobby
• University Relations, Eagle Village, Suite 300
• Lee Hall – 2^nd and 3^rd floors
• Trinkle Hall, Education Suite, 2^nd floor
• Stafford Campus, North and South buildings

Donation boxes will be available on Campus Walk and Lee Terrace at the Alzheimer’s Walk on Saturday, Sept. 29 – the final day of the Eagles in Service Food Drive!

To:  Faculty and Staff

FROM: Rick Pearce

Subject:  Employee Reimbursement for Purchases

Recent audits by Virginia’s Division of Purchases and Supply (DPS) and the Auditor of Public Accounts (APA), have reflected an intensified scrutiny of NON –TRAVEL REIMBURSEMENTS to Faculty and Staff.

As a gentle reminder, purchases by faculty and staff for which reimbursement will be sought should be a very last resort and must be done in compliance with purchasing policies and procedures (i.e., SWAM quotes).  Apparently, there has been a statewide increase in using this reimbursement approach to avoid State procurement regulations.

Regretfully, we cannot guarantee that folks who do not comply with procurement procedures will be reimbursed for their expenses.

UMW procedures are included at the following links:

Accounts Payable reimbursement information and procedures http://adminfinance.umw.edu/ap/reimbursements/

Please contact Leigh Penn at extension 1226 or lpenn@umw.edu with any questions.

Purchasing policies and procedures  http://adminfinance.umw.edu/purchasing/umw-policies-and-procedures-2/ 

Please contact Pauline Jenkins at extension 2260 or pjenkins@umw.edu with any questions.

 — Richard R. Pearce, Vice President for Administration and Finance and CFO

The University of Mary Washington will host the C-SPAN Campaign 2012 Bus, Thursday, Sept. 27, on the Fredericksburg campus. The stop is part of a four-day tour to five Virginia universities and colleges to speak to students and community members regarding their thoughts about campaign issues. The bus will be located beside Lee Hall from 8:30 a.m. until noon.

Political analyst Stephen Farnsworth will be a guest on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal segment from 8:30 to 9:15 a.m. Farnsworth, who is a UMW political science professor and director of the University’s Center for Media and Leadership Studies, is an expert on the 2012 presidential election cycle as well as Virginia government and politics. He is the author or co-author of four books, including “The Nightly News Nightmare: Media Coverage of U.S. Presidential Elections, 1988-2008,” “Spinner in Chief: How Presidents Sell Their Policies and Themselves,” “The Mediated Presidency: Television News and Presidential Governance” and “Political Support in a Frustrated America.”

From 10:15 to 11:45 a.m., C-SPAN will hold tours aboard the Campaign 2012 Bus. Visitors will learn via HD TVs, touch screen computers, laptops and mobile devices about the network’s Campaign 2012 website, including video of candidates and campaign events, information on key state races, the electoral college and ways to follow the social media related to the campaign. The tour also will include information about C-SPAN’s public affairs event coverage; web offerings, including archived video going back to 1987 through C-SPAN’s Video Library and Congressional Chronicle; and the numerous ways to connect with the network through social media.

C-SPAN representatives also will encourage students and members of the community to share their thoughts about the presidential campaign. Participants will be asked to comment on the presidential candidates and the issues most important to them in this election cycle. Their responses — captured in 15-second videos via Smartphone and shared instantly — will be uploaded onto various C-SPAN social media platforms, including C-SPAN’s own Tout page (http://www.tout.com/cspanbus). Responses in this week-long election special also will be highlighted on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal. The bus tour is open to the public at no charge. Public parking is in designated “visitor” parking spaces on Double Drive and on the top deck of the UMW Parking Deck accessed from U.S. 1.

More information about the bus tour is available at www.c-span.org/bus or by contacting Jennifer Curran, C-SPAN marketing representative, at (202) 309-3360.