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UNT has implemented an emergency information system for the campus community that is supported with data from EIS. The messaging system is named Eagle Alert and allows UNT administrators to quickly contact students and employees by phone about emergency situations affecting the safety and well being of people on and around the campus. The system also can send text messages to cell phones if a person grants the system permission.

The Eagle Alert system only notifies currently enrolled students and employees of the University of North Texas and the UNT Dallas Campus (Systems Center) - former students and employees do not receive messages. The UNT Health Science Center is expected to go-live on February 29th with a similar system named Red Alert.

Beginning with the March 3, 2008, paychecks, the Payroll Office will no longer print the direct deposit statements for most employees.

Employees can log into the MyUNT Portal (http://my.unt.edu) to view or print their earning statement. Only employees who receive their paycheck by direct deposit are effected by this change.

To view and print a copy of their direct deposit statement, employees should follow these steps:

1. Login to http://my.unt.edu.
2. Under System Login, enter your EUID and enterprise password.
3. Click the Sign In button.
4. Select the Employee tab.
5. In the Human Resource – UNT panel, under Payroll, Taxes, and Salary, click the View Paycheck link.
6. Choose the paycheck date that you want to view/print.
7. To print your statement, click the print button on the toolbar that appears.

The Student Records System Development Team (SRSD), lead by Linda Wallace, has been busy supporting student administration efforts in cooperation with the UNT Registrar’s Office. The PeopleSoft 8.9 upgrade (completed in November 2007) delivered significant improvements in student and faculty self-service features. The fabulous new Student Center and Faculty Center accessed through the MyUNT and MyHSC portals provide new functionality to students and faculty. Several students have mentioned to the editor of theEnterprise that the new student center is “wonderful and easy to use” and “makes the registration process much easier.”

Room RP 203, which is part of the physical space occupied by the Computing and Information Technology Center (CITC) at the Research Park, is undergoing revision. The 22 “cubed” work areas in RP 203 that provided EIS users with work space at the Research Park have been dismantled. The UNT School of Library and Information Science (SLIS) is scheduled to being construction for their college in the open area adjacent to where the cubicles formerly existed. The space the cubicles occupied will undergo construction to build additional offices needed to accommodate the growth of CITC.

A Management Certification Report system is now available in EIS. The system is designed to provide a certification process for actual expenditure data. Institutional managers are able to view their expenditures during the fiscal year and verify that the expenditures look correct on a monthly basis. Individuals can also view their expenditures and revenues.

The report consists of a responsibility page that displays to show the department ID or project ID holder the expenses they are responsible for certifying. A prompt page is available with a variety of criteria to select for filtering the report by business unit or budget period, and the summary data itself. Once a manager has had the opportunity to review the data, there is a button on the page that allows them to certify the results.