Last day to make ISU Plan changes

Today is the last day for ISU employees to make changes in the ISU Plan. Faculty, P&S and supervisory merit employees who are covered by the plan may make changes to their medical, dental and life-insurance plans and flexible spending accounts.

To make changes or calculate costs, employees should log on to AccessPlus.

– Sara Tennessen

Professor to discuss protecting privacy

Barbara Mack, associate professor of journalism and mass communication, will discuss “Ethics, Privacy and Technology: Who’s Watching You?” at noon Friday in 144 Durham Center. Mack’s talk will look at how individuals, corporations and universities can protect their privacy. The speech is free and open to the public.

– Sara Tennessen

Volunteers can assist with giving tree

The ISU community is invited to assist with a giving tree sponsored by the Faculty Senate and Ames/ISU YMCA.

A tree in the senate office, 103 Lab of Mechanics, is decorated with tags containing wishes from children in CONNECT, an after-school program for Ames-area K-6 children identified as having lives in transition.

Volunteers select a tag and purchase the item for the child. Cash donations to the Ames/ISU YMCA also will be used to purchase gifts. Gifts need to brought to the senate office by Friday, Dec. 14. For more information, contact the senate office at 294-9717.

– Sara Tennessen