September 28, 2009
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For this year’s entering freshmen, “women have always outnumbered men in college.”
The Parents’ Association thanks Student Center Operations for their help in moving their Fall Family Weekend event (for more than a 1,000 people) into the Ballroom last Saturday. Many, many thanks for being able to respond so quickly! After deciding on Friday that the weather was too chancy for the outdoor tailgate event planned for Saturday afternoon, the Parents Association asked to move the event to the Student Center Ballroom. Everything was in place and perfect for Saturday, and many parents expressed their appreciation for the event being indoors.
When: September 29 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Where: Cater Lawn.
Features inflatables and caricature artists
Several UPC members are traveling to the NACA South Regional Conference in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Oct. 1–4. They will be attending and presenting educational sessions, as well as gathering ideas for programming on campus.
The lighting of Cater Hall in pink, in honor of October as Breast Cancer Awareness Month, will take place Thursday, October 1, at 7:00 p.m. Everyone is invited to attend this event in a show of support for this cause.
Two sessions of a money skills seminar for students, "Ultimate Money Skills: College," will be Thursday, Oct. 1, in 113A Lowder Business Building at 5 p.m. and 6 p.m. It's a dynamic and energetic presentation about how choices that students make about money while in college can have a direct impact on their future financial success and can help them make better decisions during and after their time at Auburn. Two times have been scheduled for the 50-minute seminar so that as many students as possible can attend. The free, interactive seminars will show students how to achieve the critical understanding of appropriate credit use; understand the basics of banking; design their own budget; take control of student loan debt; minimize debt to maximize wealth; and protect their identity and avoid identity theft. The presentations are sponsored by monster.com, Bank of America, and the Auburn Spirit Foundation for Scholarships. No products will be sold to students. For more information, contact Lucy LaMar at 844-9178 or LLL0003@auburn.edu.
Auburn University is in the process of obtaining Federal Government approval to implement a Fringe Benefit Rate, instead of charging the individual actual fringe benefits. We will be using three different rates, depending on the type of employee (employee class). The three Fringe Rates are as follows:
Full-Time Personnel: 33.19 percent
Part-Time Personnel: 11.79 percent
Graduate Students: 2.95 percent
The Fringe Benefit Rates are scheduled to begin October 1, 2009.