This email contains important information you will be expected to know as a member of the UP Student Team. In an effort to keep emails to a minimum, we are going to be sending out an email every Sunday with important info. Make sure to read thoroughly. Have a great week!

🤩Employees of the Week🤩

Congratulations to Gracelyn and Kayrie - this week's employees of the week!

We are so proud of the thought, care, attention to detail, and organization you put into your Sweet Home Alabama event.

We are so grateful for this dynamic duo and can't wait to see what you come up with next.

Stop by Paige's office sometime this week for a new t-shirt! Congrats! 🎉

We currently looking into band options for Bama Jam. We want your input! Please take the time to fill out this survey and let us know what you think.

Have other suggestions for Bama Jam artists? Talk to Jacob!

Life of the Mardi



📆 Event Date: Monday, February 5 |This is a daytime event! If your hours fall during this event, you will be expected to help out until dismissed by the professional staff.

⏰ Shift Time: 11- 1PM

👤 Point person: Taylor

👕 Attire: UP Mardi Gras Shirt (You'll get it tomorrow!), UP sweatshirt or jacket, appropriate shorts/pants, and comfortable closed-toed shoes

📍 Report: UP Office

🍕Food: None

Mardi Groove

📆 Event Date: Thursday, February 8

⏰ Shift Time: 4:30 - 9:30 PM

👤 Point person: Taylor & Erica

👕 Attire: Mardi Gras UP Shirt, UP sweatshirt or jacket, appropriate shorts/pants, and comfortable closed-toed shoes

📍 Report: UP Office

🍕Food: We will have food at the event. However, staff's ability to get food will depend on the length of set up and if everyone is ready to go with plenty of time to eat.

Hunger Games Movie Night

📆 Event Date: Friday, February 9

⏰ Shift Time: 5 PM - Movie Ends

👤 Point person: Chad Wright Jr

👕 Attire: Black UP Shirt, UP sweatshirt or jacket, appropriate shorts/pants, and comfortable closed-toed shoes

📍 Report: UP Office

🍕Food: None (Eat Before!)

Palentine's Day

📆 Event Date: Saturday, February 10

⏰ Shift Time: 4:30 - 8:30 PM

👤 Point person: Erica

👕 Attire: Black UP Shirt, UP sweatshirt or jacket, appropriate shorts/pants, and comfortable closed-toed shoes

📍 Report: UP Office

🍕Food: Yes!

A note from Paige:

As you have probably heard, the Leadership Engagement Team is officially launching Engagement Pods this semester.

These are small groups (6-12) led by students surrounding a certain topic. It can be anything you are interested in - baking, running, reading, etc. You meet once a week for six weeks to build community with other students with similar interests.

We are currently recruiting Engagement Pod Leaders. If you know someone who might be interested, please pass this along to them.

As an incentive for our staff to lead an Engagement Pod, we are offering you 4 hours (paid) per week to lead a Pod. This would be in addition to your office hours. These hours are so you can have time to prepare and lead your pod well.

If you have any questions, please feel free to chat with Kayla or Paige.

🛁Scrub-a-dub-DUNGEON: Time for a speedy cleanup!🛁 

The Programming Team will be on Dungeon clean up duty this week! Be sure to go back and put the event supplies away on Monday during your office hours. 🧼 It is also your responsibility to check in each day this week to make sure it’s organized. 

🎈 Up, up, and away – Balloon Arch Adventure! 🎈 

*The balloon arches will be assigned to designated people so that it does not constantly fall on the same people every week. See below for the individuals responsible for the Harry Potter Trivia Night and Neon Mini Golf Balloon Arches.  

• Wednesday, February 7 | Mardi Groove Balloon Arch 
• Jacob Dunaway
• Kennedy Russell
• Kylah Gooden
• Madison Shively
• Brighton Pollard

• Thursday, February 8| Hunger Games Movie Night Balloon Arch 
• Tregan Holterman
• Anuki Wickramanayake
• Mollie Malone
• Chad Wright
• Clare Verille

• Friday, February 9 | Palentine's Day Balloon Arch
• Megan Neville  
• Sameen Hossain
• Ashley Headen
• Taylor Branick
• Tre Turner



🎉Time to celebrate birthdays!🎉 

Join us in wishing a happy birthday to the following UP staff members! 

February Birthdays 

Javaris Tolton – February 1 

Sejal Thaman – February 5 

Gil Morgan – February 12 

Taylor Eppler – February 12 

Meg Neville – February 21 

Kennedy Russell – February 28 

Stop by the office Monday, February 19 to celebrate our February birthdays! 

There might even be FREE treats! 👀 

⏰What’s UPcoming: Important dates ahead! ⏰ 

*The following dates are the February Professional Developments. Each staff member is required to attend at least 1 Professional Development per semester. It is your responsibility to attend one if it does not fall in your office hours. Please see Erica if you have further questions. 

Wednesday, February 14 |12 – 1 PM 

Topic: Respect for Differences and Questions for Dialogue w/ Lane McLelland

Thursday, February 29 |3 – 4 PM 

Topic: Conflict Management and Team Leadership w/ Daniel Bachrach

🚨Emergency Action Plan 🚨 

*University Programs and our events could be vulnerable to a variety of hazards (natural, technological, or human-caused) and emergencies that could cause property damage, injury, disruption of services, and/or loss of life. Effective planning and implementation of an Emergency Action Plan (EAP) could mitigate the effects of such events. To provide an effective response, it is important that University Programs professional and student staff understand their roles and responsibilities during such events. These non-routine responsibilities begin when the incident is forecasted or occurs, and a response ensues. A prepared and coordinated response by the University Programs staff and local officials can save lives, protect property, and quickly restore essential services. 

Click the link below to access the Emergency Action Plan for University Programs. 

Click Here  

🔑 Reminder time: Stay in the loop! 🔑 

• If you need to ask for time off, please email your supervisor as soon as possible. Remember this is a request, so if you know of any upcoming appointments, trips etc. let us know now so that we can put it on our calendar. 
• Make sure you sign all the birthday cards in the office! 
• Make sure you check your email for any important things from the Pro Staff and Team Leads!  
• Don’t forget to check Microsoft planner for your tasks! 📌 

⚙️Ready for UPgrades:⚙️  

Where can we improve?  

Have something you want to tell us? Is there something more we can do to support you? Is there an issue you want to talk about? Do you have any ideas? It is important to us for you to feel heard! Let us know in the form below!  

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We are here for you, always! ❤️