University Library Information Bulletin

Ethics Training for Student Employees
All new student employees must complete their Ethics Training on-line before their employment begins. Library Human Resources will be responsible for monitoring the completion ot the training, which will take place when time cards are issued.

MARK YOUR CALENDARS NOW!
The UIC Center of Excellence in Women's Health and the UIC College of Pharmacy invite you to the Sister to Sister Foundation's National Women's Heart Day Health Fair:

The health fair will provide FREE heart screenings, fitness and cooking demonstrations, medical panel discussions, exhibit booths and much more.

UIC employees are encouraged to attend between 9-10 a.m. for minimal waiting times. We encourage you to bring your family members, friends and co-workers to this informative and fun event! No cost to attend. For further information, please visit
http://www.sistertosister.org/cities/Chicago.shtml or call (773) 475-4310.

Message from University Ethics Officer

With primary elections approaching and an election year busy with campaigning, fund raising and other political activities, it may be helpful to highlight policies that relate to political activities and the State Officials and Employees Ethics Act. All University of Illinois employees should be aware of these guidelines.

An integral part of the U of I is opportunity for open expression and working in an environment conducive to all types of learning. As an informed affiliate of the University, you should know and understand the law about political activity. I encourage you to communicate the following to others in your department. The goal is to maintain freedom without overstepping the boundaries as laid out by the law.

University employees, as employees of the State of Illinois, may—of course—participate in political activities and events, but cannot do so on University time or using University resources. Time spent at work or on official University business should be dedicated to fulfilling the responsibilities associated with the employee’s appointment. As defined in the law, political activity is any activity that is in support of or on behalf of any candidate, political organization or political office. If employees choose to participate in political activities, they must do so when they are not being compensated by the University, or they must use personal benefit time. As many employees have non-standard workdays, the law should be considered at any time one is in class, holding office hours or working as a representative of the University. It is important to remember that University resources (e.g., e-mail, computers, photocopy machines, fax machines, bulletin boards and University-issued cell phones) may not be used for political purposes at any time.

The State Officials and Employees Act provides the following examples of prohibited political activity:

Political contributions -- which include gifts, donations and loans of money or anything of value, in addition to fundraising tickets in connection with a campaign or the election -- may not be solicited on University property.

The law does not intend to interfere in any way with the educational mission of the U. of I. Political campaigning and the elections are often great tools for educating the student body and it is not expected that such content will be arbitrarily removed from teaching curriculum, but instead, the purpose of that content should be considered. On the same note, political speakers who visit our campuses for education purposes are also welcomed within the limits of the law.

For more information related to prohibited political activities, please reference the following:

SA/EH/RA Ethics Training is now Online!!
The University of Illinois was 99.9% compliant for the 2005 Ethics Training Program.  Congratulations and thank you for your assistance during the past year.  In an effort to reduce the printing costs, postage and filing expense of maintaining paper based training, the Undergraduate Student Employee, Temporary Extra Help and Medical Resident Ethics Training for 2006 is now available in an online format.  It is our expectation that a majority of the former “pamphlet” population will now begin training via the online format to allow for more timely and accurate reporting.  Employees will be asked to follow the link and log in using their University netid and password.
 
We realize, however, that our temporary extra help portion of this population do not all have computer access at work or home and will require an offline training format.  We intend to provide a printed version of the 2006 training as soon as the document has been provided by the Office of Executive Inspector General for the Agencies of the Illinois Governor, and we will notify you at that time.  In the interim, please continue to train those employees requiring an offline version using the pamphlets provided in 2005.  Additional copies are available upon request.  For those employees who are able to train online, please direct them to do so by visiting the training as soon as possible. 
 
We appreciate your continued efforts to train our undergraduate student workers, temporary extra help employees and medical residents.  Our goal, with your assistance, is to train as many members of this population as possible in the spring semester of 2006, reducing the effort required in the fall semester.  This will allow us to focus more intently on the Inspector General’s online program when it becomes available for our permanent employees in the fall.  Thank you and please feel free to contact our office at: 866-758-2146 or via e-mail at: ethicsofficer@uillinois.edu with any questions or concerns you may have. 
 
For technical questions related to logging-into the training (netid and password), please refer to the following instructions for your respective campus: