Parental leave (2025): Create parental leave policy and process aligned with new state law

• UHR lead: Isandra Martinez-Marrero
• Completion: 100%

Optimize staff onboarding: Develop comprehensive and customizable onboarding tools, including checklists, dashboards, and personalized welcome resources to support HR representatives and executive leaders in enhancing employee engagement and informing strategic planning

• UHR leads: Keith Becker and Erin Litton
• Completion: 100%

P3 Merit Experience Pilot Project: Improve Merit experience and retention, focused on the first year of employment

• UHR lead: Isandra Martinez-Marrero
• Completion: 85%

Develop career pathways framework: Establish a comprehensive career development framework, equipping employees and supervisors to progress career goals

• UHR leads: Rachel Napoli and Jiongting Hu
• Completion: 100%

Staff recognition programs: Pilot and implement recommendations and utilize data to assess effectiveness of campus programs

• UHR leads: Justin Fraase and Abigail Schaver
• Completion: 80%

TIAA retirement plan modernization: Modernizing UI retirement plans administered by TIAA to include a streamlined fund lineup with lower-cost investment options, a new target retirement series tailored to UI plan participants, and a self-directed brokerage feature

• UHR lead: Joni Troester
• Completion: 100%

Recruitment marketing platform: Identify vendor from RFQ, determine funding, implement recruitment marketing platform

• UHR lead: Keith Becker and Rebecca Schwertfeger
• Completion: 50% (combining phase I and II in FY27)

Employee Engagement Survey: Review vendors, explore third-party options that allow for benchmarking

• UHR lead: Isandra Martinez-Marrero
• Update: Moved to FY29 (fall 2028)

Investigation process/ELR: Clarify roles, define investigative levels, and strengthen reporting lines. Enhance case management and tracking, address bottlenecks, and integrate Faculty Investigations Core

• UHR lead: Todd Rent
• Completion: 10%

HR transactions: Re-envision and simplify data collection. Explore direct entry into HR system and evaluate additional tools to facilitate smooth, efficient processes

• UHR lead: Mike Kaplan and Becky Tjelmeland
• Completion: 80%

I-9 centralization: Connect I-9 hubs to the HR neighborhood. Streamline workflows and explore methods to make the process more consistent and efficient

• UHR lead: Sharon Beck
• Completion: 40%

HR neighborhood: Develop a collaborative service delivery model that connects HR staff across administrative units, strengthens functional expertise, and builds consistent, employee-focused processes while allowing for continuous improvement

• UHR lead: Sharon Beck
• Completion: 45%

Mental health: Expand implementation of peer to peer support: R U OK?

• UHR lead: Bronwyn Threlkeld-Wiegand
• Completion: 100%

Financial well-being: Improve campus engagement in existing services; expand use of financial mobile app as part of training and education

• UHR lead: Diana Kremzar
• Completion: 100%

Population health: Administer the GLP-1 Pilot Program focused on quality benefit design for the member and a financially sustainable model for self-funded plans

• UHR leads: Mike Kaplan and Erin Litton
• Completion: 100%

Social connections: Explore opportunities to create campus connections promoting health, well-being, and staff success

• UHR lead: Erin Litton
• Completion: 90%

Evaluation: Conduct outcome evaluations (quantitative and qualitative) on identified services; collaborate with orgs and departments on local data and opportunities for health improvement

• UHR leads: Erin Litton and Melanie Cuchna
• Completion: 100%

Hard to reach populations: Improve engagement with select populations through multi-modal communication strategies and collaboration with local leadership

• UHR lead: Erin Litton
• Completion: 100%

Faculty Investigative Core: Ensure initiative is launched, investigators trained, metrics and KPIs identified

• UHR lead: Todd Rent
• Completion: 90%

Pay codes: Conduct internal review of special compensation earnings codes

• UHR lead: Trevor Glanz
• Completion: 100%

Relocation: Move UHR staff from University Services Building to University Capitol Centre

• UHR leads: Cheryl Reardon and Sharon Beck
• Update: Moved to early calendar year 2027

Identify strategic compensation practices: Benchmark compensation practices across peer institutions and identify potential strategies that support recruitment and retention

• UHR lead: Trevor Glanz and Kyle Anson
• Completion: 100%

Identify strategic high priorities: Compensation practices, well-being programs, and admin rules

• UHR lead: Cheryl Reardon and Kyle Anson
• Completion: 100%

Mergers/acquisitions: Effectively manage new mergers and/or acquisitions - UI Health Care Home Care

• UHR lead: Cheryl Reardon and Kyle Anson
• Completion: 50%