Category: Announcements

Internal announcements of interest to faculty and staff.

Future of Work Survey – summary posted to website

Dear Colleagues, Over the summer, the Future of Work Planning Group asked you to share feedback related to your work experience by responding to the Employee Experience Survey. We appreciate your participation and honest responses! There were over 380 responses which gave the Future of Work Group insight into how the University of Mary Washington responded to […]

New Anti-Malware Software – SentinelOne

UMW Faculty and Staff,The IT Department is working on a project to migrate all Windows and Mac workstations from the legacy Symantec Endpoint Protection anti-malware software currently in use to next-generation anti-malware software from SentinelOne.The SentinelOne software client will be automatically pushed to and installed on your computer in the coming weeks. Shortly after that, […]

Zoom Phone Soft Launch

UMW Faculty and Staff, As you know, UMW is moving to Zoom Phone for telephone services. With Zoom Phone, you can make and receive phone calls and text messages wherever you are running the Zoom application, on any device, using your UMW phone number. The Zoom Phone service is available to you starting today as […]

Updated testing strategy for Thanksgiving

Dear Eagles,As we near Thanksgiving break, we wanted to thank you for your commitment to keeping the campus population healthy. Our COVID case numbers have remained low and transmission of the virus within the UMW community has been isolated. We believe that our high vaccination rates coupled with your efforts to comply with the indoor […]

Attention Faculty & AP Faculty – ORPHE Enrollment

October is open enrollment for participants in the Optional Retirement Plan for Higher Education (ORPHE). You have the opportunity to change providers, effective with the first payroll in 2022. Open Enrollment occurs annually from October 1 to October 31. All provider changes must be completed in your myVRS account by October 31, 2021.Two provider options […]