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Round Table Discussion Series

Our next Roundtable Discussion is currently being developed and should be occurring sometime this summer, more information will be coming shortly.

Recent Events

2023 Fall KY CUPA-HR Conference - September 20-22, Covington, KY

Our Fall 2023 conference was a great success! We came together in Covington, Kentucky to celebrate our Excellence Award and explore Human Resources in higher education.

Check out our featured speakers!

Presentations:

CUPA HR Legal Update, with Grant Garber, VP of Legal Affairs & General Council at NKU and Alexis Switzer, Associate at DBL Law

2022 Fall KY CUPA-HR Conference - November 2-4, Bowling Green, KY

Our first in-person conference in three years was a great success and can't wait to see everyone again next fall in Covington, KY. Below you will find the presentations from November 2022.

How Employees Can Help Curb The US Caregiving Crisis, with Melinda Stroda, LCSW, Care Coach at Cariloop

Beyond Borders - Employing Remote Employee Outside the State, with Courtney Ross Samford, OF Counsel, Dinsmore & Shohl LLP

Legal Update, with Katherine (Kacey) Coleman, Sturgill, Turner, Baker & Moloney, PLLC

Higher Ed HR Leader Challenges Now and in the Near Future, with Donna Henry, Southern Region CUPA Board President

You are the Architect of Your Life, with Dr. Kimberly A. Luse

2022 Spring Unconference - May 9th-27th (Three Week Series)

Kentucky and Tennessee CUPA-HR tried something a little different during the spring of 2022, where the two boards joined up again to deliver our joint spring event. Both or our membership populations where telling us they wanted more opportunities to network with their peers, so we are called our event last spring an unconference! The programming allowed participant centered, steering away from the traditional formal presentations.

This Unconference contained a series of single sessions over a three-week period from May 9th through May 27th, with no more than one session on any given day and each week and had no more than three sessions.

The event was conducted entirely online in a virtual environment.

Week One (May 9-13) – Managing Your Self-Care/Self-Health

Wednesday May 11: 10 – 11 am (ET)

“A Taste of Mindfulness” – Paula Kommor, Chief Energizing Officer, Dynamics Wellness

Thursday May 12: 11 am – 12 pm (ET)

“Strategies for engaging in self-care while at work – Allison McCann, EKU”

Week Two (May 17th, 18th, 19th) – Strengthening Relationships to Better Care for and Support our Customers

Tuesday May 17: 10 – 11 am (ET)

“Health and Wellbeing: Caring Means Sharing… or Does it?” - Julie Roe & Jon Chandler

Wednesday May 18: 2:30 – 4 pm (ET)

“Building Better Relationships Through Communication” – Catherine Lilly, SEGAL

Thursday May 19: 10 -11 am (ET)

“What do managers have to do with employee well-being?” – Ann Bassoni, UK

Week Three (May 23 – 27) – Don’t Forget To Have Fun – Getting Back To Enjoying What We Do!

Monday May 23: 9 – 10:30 am (ET)

“A Wake-Up Call – Leading Edge Coaching & Development” – Cindy Maher & Jamie Guite

Tuesday May 24: 10 – 11 am (ET)

Possibility - “Humor Resources” – Ryan Beck

Wednesday May 25: 2-3 pm (ET)

“Positive Psychology” - “The Un-Pursuit of Happiness: Explore how to Intentionally Reconnect With why we do What we do” – Krista Vaught

Round Table Discussion Series

Your Kentucky CUPA-HR Board introduced a new program for 2022. We rolled out a new series called Kentucky CUPA Connect. A quarterly roundtable discussion covering different issues facing our departments, campuses and profession. These discussions where heavily participant centered and offered our entire membership a chance to participate in these very important discussions. If you have an idea of a topic or you are interested in facilitating a quarterly event in the future; please reach out to any member of your Kentucky board.

Our first quarterly roundtable was March 31, 2022, and covered the topic of Recruitment.

Our second quarterly roundtable was June 30th, 2022 and covered Performance Management.

Our third quarterly roundtable was September 30th, 2022, and covered Onboarding.

I hope you were able to join us for one or all of these roundtables, but if not keep your eyes open for more opportunities to join you peers to discuss some very important topics facing all of our campuses.

2021 Fall Virtual Conference - November 4, 2021

Thanks to all that attended our fall event this year! Our Fall Virtual Conference was a huge success, we had 106 registrations, second only to last spring. We hope that you will all take the time to complete the survey, the feedback provided will only make future events stronger. Click the following link if you haven't taken the survey yet. https://forms.gle/7DARJLofosXEqQyW8.

Below you will find all the recordings from our sessions as well as some additional resources and presentation slides.

Conference Materials

Kickoff and Keynote recording (Trauma-Informed Care Approach to Human Resources - Dr. Kimberly Luse)
Create an Engaged Culture presentation
Additional materials referenced during Dr. Luse's session

Session One recording (Recent Athletic/Athletes Decisions (Name, Image & Likeness) - Rachel Baker)

University of Kentucky Name, Image, Likeness Website

Session Two recording (Legal Update - Kasey Coleman)

Session Three recording (Vision, Voice, and Values: The New Rules of Employee Engagement in a Distributed/Hybrid Workforce - Catherine Lilly)

Session Three Presentation Slides

Session Four recording (Health Savings Accounts - Industry Advocacy and Regulatory Compliance - Jody L. Dietel, Nicky Brown & Fran Scott)

Session Five recording (Employee Assistance Programs Overview & Dealing with Emotional Impacts of the Pandemic as we Transition into the New Normal - Iten Elyassaki & Brian McNamara)

Session Five Presentation Slides - The Emotional Impact of the Pandemic _ Navigating the New Normal