5 things you need to know this week

A weekly series designed to highlight events, benefits, perks, and items of interest for University of Miami faculty and staff.

Attend TIAA retirement sessions.
Multiple dates in June.
Whether you’re planning to retire in five, 10, or 25 years, it’s never too early to learn about your retirement options and access tools and resources available through TIAA. Explore a list of webinars this month, which will cover a number of topics including saving strategies, income options in retirement, and making gifts to loved ones and charities. Reserve your spot and find previously recorded presentations at TIAA.org/webinars.

Learn to utilize project management tools. 
Tuesday, June 8, at 3 p.m.
Lead your peers and teams to successfully achieve goals within a specific time frame with the help of project management tools. Learn which tools, platforms, and applications best fit your project needs during the next UMIT tech talk. University faculty and staff members of all experience levels can register to attend. Get additional information about UMIT’s tech talk series.

Access virtual events offered by the Lowe Art Museum. 
Available online.
Throughout the summer months, tap into online programming at the Lowe—The Art of Mindfulness, Lowe Connects, and Connect and Create. Part of the Lowe Connects series, you can browse recordings from recent events, including “Art History and Augmented Reality: Designing Virtual Art Exhibitions in the Classroom” hosted on April 8, and “The Distance Between You and Me is Us” hosted on April 22.

Enable live closed captioning in Zoom and Microsoft Teams. 
Now available.
Access a live transcription in Zoom and Microsoft Teams meetings and webinars with a new feature, which provides real-time automatic speech recognition captions and transcripts. Implement this feature during your meetings and/or webinars, which enables individuals with accessibility issues to follow conversations more easily and allows attendees to participate during virtual events. Learn how to enable the live transcription feature.

Athletics compliance: summer reminders. 
24/7.
As many of the University of Miami teams have now concluded their seasons, it is important to remember that NCAA rules affect student-athletes, coaches, institutional staff members, and fans throughout the year, not just during the playing season. Learn how to maintain a culture of compliance at the University of Miami by reviewing summer reminders.

 

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