Task Forces

• Onboarding Working Group – Refined scope to prioritize staff onboarding, with POI onboarding to follow.
• Staff Compensation Working Group – Identified owners for each topic across campuses. Co-leads identifying subgroups to form and members to assign to each so they may divide inventory topics among subgroups to begin working on comparative analysis.

• Cross Campus Incident Escalation Working Group – Finalizing group chat structures for leaders and timely warning flowchart. Comparing systems for alert notifications.
• Compliance Working Group – This working group is sunsetting and deliverables transferred to Compliance functional integration work or operations.

The Academic and Program Advising/Student Support Working Group, Admissions/Recruitment Decision Working Group, Faculty Advisory Bodies Working Group and Student Government Discovery Group have finalized and submitted their expected artifacts to the ASFA Task Force co-chairs for review. Pending any additional feedback from the co-chairs, the work of these groups is complete. The remaining ASFA working groups are finalizing their recommendations and expected deliverables for submission in the coming weeks.

• The Editorial Style Guide working group released recent information about the use of “academic campus” and “health campus” as internal institutional distinctions to support clarity in language use for university nomenclature adoption.
• The Internal Communications Working Group has executed a new content strategy for the internal “This Week” newsletters, including opportunities to share news across academic and health campuses.
• The Internal Communications Working Group has also initiated a new news and storytelling distribution method that includes promoting university news from UT San Antonio Today and UT Health San Antonio Newsroom.

• As part of Phase I for the brand migration, the logo packages are launched for UT San Antonio colleges on the academic campus and schools on the health campus. The logo packages include guidelines and logo suite designs. Support to the colleges and schools is provided by the university’s Marketing staff with preview sessions and train-the-trainer sessions.
• The Unified Web Working Group has implemented a structure for the UT San Antonio Together website as a single source of truth for integration related news and updates and has transitioned the ownership of the site’s content to the Integration Management Office.

• Benefits Working Group – Analyzing and comparing data for the Education Assistance and Tuition Assistance programs. Conducting in-depth review of faculty specific benefits, including Phased Retirement, Voluntary Separation Incentive Program, Professional Liability Insurance and The Standard Long-Term Disability.
• Leave Plans Working Group – Completing financial analysis of the State Plan and Comprehensive Leave Plan for academic campus to assess potential financial impact. Continuing to review holiday schedules based on benchmarking and internal analysis. Reviewing Leave Administration case data from the academic campus to assess potential of the health campus’ third-party vendor.
• Wellness Working Group – Created inventory of wellness offerings other than those provided through UT System’s Office of Employee Benefits (OEB) including clinically-based and workforce-based offerings. Created comparative analysis of Employee Assistance Program (EAP)​, wellness programs and resources​ and launched sub-committees to assess​.