Pre-travel and staff leave request process updates
Building on its recent name change, the Department of Technology Resources would like to inform UND School of Medicine & Health Sciences faculty and staff about new features on the SMHS website and across the college.
First, UND policy now requires written supervisor approval be obtained before any faculty or staff pursue work-related travel. To simplify the process and help the UND track SMHS travel efforts, Technology Resources is making its own web-based platform available for all faculty and staff.
Please submit future SMHS-related travel requests to your supervisor, prior to your travel, via this platform.
Staff are also required to submit vacation and sick leave requests to the new platform. Why? Because it allows supervisors to map out multiple staff absences simultaneously using a visual calendar module to see when certain staff will be out, whatever the reason. (Note: NDUS still requires that “official” leave requests be made via its HRMS system.)
Such travel and leave requests can be made via the black header on every SMHS website page. Just look for the “SMHS Leave/Travel Request” button under the “Logins” portion of the SMHS web header.
Residents/Fellows
- Leave Pre-Approval: Each residency or fellowship program may choose to use the system for leave requests. If a program already has a well-established and reasonable approval process in place, residents/fellows may be exempt from using the system.
- Travel Pre-Approval: To comply with UND policy, all residents/fellows must obtain travel pre-approval using the proposed web-based system.
Note: Technology Resources has also been added to the black footer on every SMHS web page. This frontline access to Technology Resources eases faculty/staff access to UND’s tech support request system (which is now available on the navigation bar of the Technology Resources website).
Questions on all of this can be directed to Nasser Hammami at nasser.hammami@UND.edu or Brian Schill at brian.schill@UND.edu.
