UCOP Local Human Resources has announced that UC is updating its Learning Management System (LMS), also known as the UC Learning Center, at all locations including UCOP.

UC’s financial education program offers its next set of financial planning workshops, conducted by Fidelity Retirement Counselor Nancy Pargot, on Friday, Jan. 23, at both Kaiser and Franklin locations.

Johnson will present the findings of his report, Making College Possible for Low-Income Students, which examines the role of grant and scholarship aid in California to help students access and complete college.

Join members of the OP Efficiency Review working group for a brown bag to learn how you can participate and find out the status of staff suggestions in various stages of implementation.

Learn how to participate in the UC Oakland Partnership volunteer day of community service at the Alameda County Community Food Bank, this Wednesday, Jan. 21, from 12:30 to 3:30 p.m.

Judy Thai of ITS and her team earned recognition for saving energy by making intelligent and "cool" choices in how they use the power-eating devices in their offices.

Thanks to all of you who responded to the Link reader survey, to which 213 of you (11 percent of the UCOP community) responded with lots of helpful feedback.

If you want to catch Cal basketball with your UCOP colleagues, act fast! The deadline for tickets to the Jan. 22 Cal men's game is this Friday, Jan. 16.

Two Franklin elevators will undergo routine maintenance over the next two weeks. Maintenance will be performed on one elevator at a time.

UC is proposing extensive revisions to its Whistleblower Protection Policy, and employees can provide comments by Jan. 30.

UCOP offices will close from Wednesday, Dec. 24, through Thursday, Jan. 1, 2015. Today's issue of Link is the final issue of the year, and publication will resume on Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2015.