July employees of the month
Jan Emerson University support staff
Jan Emerson
Started at KU: 1978
Current title: Administrative associate senior, Women's Studies Program.
What that means: Emerson maintains the files of undergraduate and graduate students and faculty; coordinates advising, class scheduling and the faculty recruitment process; and schedules meetings for the core faculty, the advisory board and student groups.
In addition, she serves as payroll officer, oversees the Web site, designs the program newsletter, and supervises two to three student workers.
Notable: Women's studies is an interdisciplinary program, and all of its faculty members have joint appointments with other academic units. This makes Emerson's job especially challenging because she has to work with the faculty and staff from each of the other departments on matters related to search committees, course schedules, promotion and tenure, and advising.
Paul Farran Unclassified employee
Paul Farran
Current title: Unclassified information specialist 1, Academic Technology Services.
What that means: Farran is the technology support coordinator for Student Success, overseeing the technology that serves 20 offices and more than 450 users on a variety of platforms. In addition to providing training sessions for new software development, he maintains a database of all trouble tickets and their solutions and tracks inventory for the entire sector. He also supervises three student technicians and manages their training, and is the technical liaison for Student Success and a field security officer who chairs the Security Awareness Committee of the KU Information Technology Security Office.
Notable: When the ATS server administrator left, Farran worked with LAN Support Services to migrate accounts from the ATS servers to the LSS servers. He then took the responsibility of creating more secure workstations for 450-plus computers.
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