Follow-up: September 2023 General Meeting and News from the Chair

The recording of the September 21. 2023 UT Staff Council General Meeting is now available.

Featured speakers

• Jeff Stellmach - Hearts of Texas Campaign
• Courtney Young - University Events and Engagement + Longhorn Halloween
• Emily Hurt - Artificial Intelligence: Policy at UT Austin
• Drs. Joydeep Biswas and Don Fussell - Artificial Intelligence: Present and Future

News and Additional Opportunities

1) Longhorn Halloween and Orange Santa - Feedback Opportunity
Courtney Young, Executive Director of Events and Engagement, invites you to provide your feedback about Longhorn Halloween and Orange Santa via this Qualtrics survey.

2) University Health Services - Fall 2023 Flu Shot Clinics
The appointment booking system is live! Our colleagues in University Health Services are providing Flu Shot Clinics, October 4-October 27, 2023. Additional information is found on the related web page.

3) Texas Executive Education - Discount on Professional Development Opportunities
Texas Executive Education (TEE) normally offers all UT employees a 50% discount on all its open enrollment classes. And, TEE is offering an additional 10% discount (total discount = 60%) for their course Human Biases in Decision Making: Avoiding the Traps which runs next week, October 2-3, 2023.  It’s part of their Decision Quality series and explores mistakes and blind spots decision makers can fall into when making organizational choices and how to apply the principles of Decision Quality to avoid those issues.

Please feel free to reach out to any of the Staff Council Officers if you ever have questions or concerns.  You can also submit an issue for Staff Council to research via our 'Submit an Issue' link found at the top of every Staff Council web page at https://staffcouncil.utexas.edu. Issues may be submitted anonymously.