August employees of the month
Teri Varuska Unclassified employee
Teri Varuska
Current title: Coordinator, Educare preschool program.
What that means: Varuska has primary responsibility for ensuring compliance with the Kansas Department of Health and Environment's standards for child care programs.
Notable: Varuska regularly works with individual children to ensure that they are experiencing a sufficient number of structured learning experiences and provides one-on-one reading instruction to many of the older children in the program. In addition to her administrative duties, she also trains and supervises graduate and undergraduate teachers.
Terri Osborn University support staff
Terri Osborn
Current title: Administrative professional, Human Resources and Equal Opportunity.
What that means: Osborn works with People-Admin, the university's recruitment/applicant system, providing support for KU hiring managers and applicants. She is responsible for PeopleAdmin user account access, appointment processing and offer letters for newly appointed University Support Staff and Unclassified Professional Staff.
Notable: Following a reorganization, Osborn is now the office manager and supervises student employees.
She also has taken on the collection of information for 20+ lecturer pools in the College, which entails reviewing recruitments plans and re-advertising for the positions, a responsibility formerly assigned to an unclassified employee.
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