The 10th of each month is the last day to make changes to your upcoming payroll check. Do you need to add or remove your spouse and/or children from your health care plans? If so, contact Human Resources (HR) to complete the appropriate form. Changes might include events that are expected to impact your benefits and deductions, such as your spouse or children gaining or losing coverage due to employment, birth, marriage, etc.

Additionally, any changes to your 403b account may take up to seven days to be provided to SPU for processing, so please contact Transamerica by the first of the month prior to your requested change. For changes to your 403(b) account, contact Transamerica Retirement Solutions at 1-888-676-5512 (5 a.m.–6 p.m. PST), or 1-800-755-5801. If you have any other benefits-related changes, call Cherylin Shdo in HR at 206-281-2816.

The Faculty/Staff Bulletin is on its summer schedule and will be published every other week through September 9. The next deadline is Thursday, Aug. 15. The next issue will be published Monday, Aug. 19. 

If you have information or event news, send it as soon as possible with an image or graphic to Bulletin editor Tracy Norlen at fsb-editor@spu.edu. Submissions may be edited for clarity.

Nathaniel Weston, adjunct history faculty, gave a presentation for the European Association for Southeast Asian Studies in Amsterdam. The paper, titled "The Rising Sun over the Philippines: Ferdinand Blumentritt on the Japanese Empire in the Late Spanish Colonial Era," was part of the roundtable discussion, "Blumentritt Beyond Rizal: Revisiting the Scholarship and Politics of a European Filipinist."

Please join the Office of Human Resources in welcoming the following new staff members.

David Gilman, student accounts specialist, Student Financial Services
Alissa Mahar, vice president, Office of Business and Finance
Michaela Peterson, assistant athletic trainer, Athletics