UCPath End-of-Year Celebration
2024-12-18 07:30 - 10:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | UCPath 2nd Floor Lobby
All UCPath staff are invited to a festive winter breakfast featuring delicious food and fun-filled events — including a cookie-baking “throw down!” Bring your baking and taste-testing skills and prepare to join colleagues at this fun-filled event!

LaSA Bake Sale
2024-12-17 12:00 - 13:30 | Oakland Franklin building lobby
Connect with LaSA members, pick up tasty snacks and help support LaSA’s UC scholarship fund.

Career Development Tools
2024-12-17 11:00 - 12:00
UCOP has free career development tools available at your fingertips. Come learn how to use My UC Career, LinkedIn and LinkedIn Learning to support you with career planning.
Register in the UC Learning Center
Questions? Email ucopld@ucop.edu

BRC T&E Team's New/Infrequent Traveler's Presentation
2024-12-17 10:00 - 11:15, 2024-11-21 10:00 - 11:15 | Zoom
Drop-ins welcome: https://UCOP.zoom.us/j/3301316753?pwd=[REDACTED]

Red Cross Blood Drive
2024-12-17 09:00 - 15:00 | Franklin Lobby 1
All employees are invited to take part in an American Red Crossblood To schedule your appointment, or for questions, please contact Jan Kehoe at 510-987-9692 or jkehoe.blood@yahoo.com or carlos.arias@ucop.edu.

Contacts: Jan Kehoe at 510-987-9692,blood@yahoo.com;

UCOP EDI and Anti-Racism Town Hall
2024-12-16 13:00 - 14:00 | Lalitha Sankaran
Join the UCOP Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Department and members of the UCOP EDI Council for a progress update on UCOP’s Unified EDI Framework. Advance registration is not required. Join at: https://UCOP.zoom.us/j/5390476626?omn=93025319285&from=addon

Winter Holiday Wrap Virtual Party
2024-12-13 13:10 - 14:00
Join the Sustainability Employee Resource Group (SERG) for a Winter Holiday Wrap Virtual Party.

How to choose the best wrapping paper for the environment (aka sustainable paper)
Budget-friendly alternatives to wrapping paper
Fun food gift ideas

And the fun continues!
Bring your own presents to wrap; gently used gift bags and paper will be available to wrap your gifts.

Oakland: December 10 & 11, 5th floor breakroom, Franklin building
Riverside: December 9 – 13, 2nd floor lounge, UCPath Center

Mindfulness at UCOP
2024-12-13 10:00 - 11:00
Less stress. Enhanced awareness and focus. Improved health.
These are some of the benefits shown in research studies on mindfulness. In this one-hour workshop, you will learn how to both reduce your stress and increase your effectiveness at work through simple mindfulness techniques. Some highlights:

Research on mindfulness benefits
Mindfulness vs meditation
Simple mindfulness practices at work

Register in the UC Learning Center
Questions? Email ucopld@ucop.edu

New Employee Orientation (Virtual)
2024-12-12 10:00 - 12:00
Starting a new job or new location can be daunting. The UCOP New Employee Orientation is designed to facilitate a smooth transition to the organization.
Topics include University of California and our history, Overview of UCOP and the organization, Tools and Resources, Safety, Compliance
All UCOP employees are encouraged to attend a session as soon as possible following their date of hire.
Note: Eligible employees must sign up for health insurance and disability benefits within their period of initial eligibility (PIE), which is thirty-one days from the date of eligibility for benefits, regardless of when they attend the orientation session.

Compliance, Accounting, Audit, & Policy (CAAP) Office Hours
2024-12-12 10:00 - 11:00, 2024-12-05 10:00 - 11:00, 2024-11-21 10:00 - 11:00
Ask questions about journals/reports, cost transfers, ITF’s, Chart of Accounts, General Ledger, and CashNet.

Dial-in: 1 669 219 2599
Meeting ID: 919 8651 9749
Passcode: [REDACTED]

Oakland End-of-Year Celebration
2024-12-11 14:30 - 16:00 | Broadway Conference Center
All Oakland-based staff are invited to our annual wintertime celebration. Mingle with colleagues and UCOP senior leadership as you enjoy festive fare! The UC Men’s Octet — UC Berkeley’s premier men’s acapella group — will treat us to a special live performance.

UC Travel Presents Uber
2024-12-11 11:00 - 12:00
Join the UC Central Travel Office for our supplier spotlight series! This event will feature Uber. Register online to attend: https://ucop.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_1_OJxTGsRWaJlwwTf0tADw

BRC - Procure to Pay Office Hours
2024-12-11 10:30 - 11:30

BRC T&E Team Office Hours
2024-12-11 10:00 - 11:00, 2024-12-04 10:00 - 11:00, 2024-11-27 10:00 - 11:00
Have a travel or travel reimbursement-related question? Join the Business Resource Center Travel and Entertainment team for weekly office hours.
Zoom link: https://UCOP.zoom.us/j/3301316753?pwd=[REDACTED]

BRC T&E Team's Concur Training Sessions
2024-12-05 14:00 - 15:30 | Zoom
Drop-ins welcome – https://UCOP.zoom.us/j/3301316753?pwd=[REDACTED]

UCOP Safety: Active Attacker Training
2024-12-05 13:00 - 14:00
Melissa Collins, Program Manager for Security, Risk and Resilience, will facilitate this live virtual class in which participants will learn skills and strategies to respond if exposed to active attacker situations. The course will review real-life incidents and discuss options in the event of potential similar encounters. Melissa joined UCOP after serving 20 years with the UC San Diego Police Department, retiring as a lieutenant, and is a safety expert.
Additional Sessions:

September 17: 1-2pm
October 15: 10-11am
November 5: 2-3pm
December 5: 2-3pm

Register in the UC Learning Center
Questions? Email ucopld@ucop.edu

Accessible PDFs
2024-12-04 13:00 - 14:30
This course focuses on Adobe Acrobat and advanced PDF accessibility remediation techniques. You will learn how to edit or enhance accessibility within a PDF file and check PDFs with a screen reader.
Register in the UC Learning Center
Questions? Email ucopld@ucop.edu

UC Travel Presents Club Quarters
2024-12-04 11:00 - 12:00
Join the UC Central Travel Office for our supplier spotlight series! This event will feature Club Quarters. Register online to attend: https://ucop.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_7VjwZFyQTdS8IU0Pg6tIPw

GROWing your Check In Conversations for Managers
2024-12-04 10:00 - 12:00
GROW is a popular coaching framework used around the world for problem solving, goal setting and performance improvement. This interactive session provides managers the opportunity to discuss and practice using the GROW framework as a strategy and tool to support engaging STEP checkpoint conversations. GROW is a simple meeting structure that supports a growth and development stance in employee-manager coaching and feedback conversations.
Register in the UC Learning Center
Questions? Email ucopld@ucop.edu

UCOP Winter Craft Fair
2024-12-04 09:00 - 14:00 | UCOP Franklin Foyer and Lobby 1
Shop locally at the UCOP Winter Craft Fair. This event will feature employees and retirees selling handmade items such as baked goods, candles, crochet garments, dolls, keychains, jewelry, ornaments, journals and woodworking items.

BRC T&E Team's Event Expenses & Other Reimbursement Training
2024-12-03 14:00 - 15:00

UCOP Safety: Basic Awareness
2024-12-03 11:00 - 12:00
Melissa Collins, Program Manager for Security, Risk and Resilience, will facilitate this live virtual class that will provide basic safety tips to help employees feel informed, alert, and safe as they travel to and from the workplace. Extra time will be allotted for questions and feedback. Melissa joined UCOP after serving 20 years with the UC San Diego Police Department, retiring as a lieutenant, and is a safety expert.
Additional Sessions:

December 3: 11am-12pm

Register in the UC Learning Center
Questions? Email ucopld@ucop.edu

Thanksgiving Holiday
2024-11-28 - 2024-11-29

BRC: Morale Building Events and End-of-Year Celebrations
2024-11-26 10:00 - 10:30
Morale Building Events and End-of-Year Celebrations!
It’s “End-of-Year” celebration time! Thinking about hosting a department gathering or a morale event to show appreciation and acknowledge achievements? Please join us for our next and last “Travel Talk Tuesday” Travel Clinic of the year where the focus will be on the do’s and don’ts of both morale building events and end-of-year celebrations. The session will include a PowerPoint presentation & live demonstration that will cover the following:

Morale events allowed per calendar year
Resources and policies outlining caps and limitations
Live demos:

Event Request – Seeking payment through the BRC
Expense Report – Processing charges post event paid with departmental card/personal funds to include the following:

Detailed purpose of the event
Appropriate expense types
Required documentation and approvals

Change Essentials
2024-11-22 10:00 - 12:00
Change Essentials is based on the best-selling book, Our Iceberg Is Melting: Changing and Succeeding Under Any Conditions, by Dr. John Kotter and Holger Rathgeber.
Dr. Kotter’s research revealed eight key steps and four critical leadership principles that, when applied effectively, help to ensure successful change. This three-part workshop will provide you with a foundational level of knowledge and skill to help you identify strategies to apply those steps and principles to a current or anticipated change within a department, or as part of a broader organizational change initiative.
Attendance is required for all three sessions on Nov 22 (10am-12pm), Dec 3 (1-3pm) and Dec 5 (1-3pm).
Register in the UC Learning Center
Questions? Email ucopld@ucop.edu
