Operational Updates

This memo acts as a reminder that all campus units (besides the School of Medicine) should continue to use FAECOVID-19 in one of the Connect Carolina Cost Code 1, 2 fields for all expenditure transactions (AP vouchers and GL journals) to identify COVID-19 related operating expenses, except for COVID Research Projects that are already tracked via Project ID.

Due to the spread of COVID-19, our office in SASB North is currently closed in an effort to protect public health, and the Cashier’s Office staff will be working remotely until further notice.

Graduate students may be hired for a semester, academic year, calendar year, or other periods as needed. Each school/division may establish varying effective dates to meet their business needs. This year presents a challenge due to the changes in the academic calendar in response to COVID-19. 

Updated campus guidelines for maintaining daily deposit act during COVID-19.

The following email is being sent later today to EHRA Temporary including Graduate Students, Post Docs, and 9-Month Faculty who have been granted access in TIM to record Administrative Absence Leave hours taken from March 16 until April 30.

As the University continues to respond to the Coronavirus pandemic, we understand that research and remote classes are continuing and departments need their merchandise to be delivered on a timely basis. Please take the following into consideration:

In light of recently updated Pandemic and Communicable Disease Emergency policy, the following new payroll accounts have been established keep track of CDME premium payments relating to COVID-19.

On March 30, 2020, the North Carolina Department of State Treasurer approved a temporary exemption to the Daily Deposit Act which requires the University to make daily deposits of all state funds into an approved bank account. Conditions in the exemption are as follows:

As a reminder, the University is continuing to prohibit University-affiliated travel outside the State of North Carolina.  Per the University’s coronavirus website, the point in time when the University’s prohibitions and restrictions on travel will end has not yet been determined. 

This interim guidance is provided in response to the new remote environment in which the University is operating due to the global COVID-19 pandemic, effective March 2020.