Terri Sugai came to UC Davis mid-career looking for a change after working long hours for a small family-run company. She started off her journey at Davis in Central Payroll but hoped to enter a more HR-focused position. In 2008 Terri made the switch to work at Facilities before helping to create the Shared Service Organization as we know it today.
Interview by Ben Mundy
You played a significant role in creating the SSO. Tell us about how it came to be, how that led to today, and what your role was.
I was recently asked to coach a group of leaders from various parts of an organization. Although they were from different departments – client services, publications, IT, communications, operations – they all shared a sense of exhaustion that outweighed their sense of accomplishment related to some considerable successes.
Christine Lovely, chief human resources officer at UC Davis has since 2018, has accepted a new role as Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer at Cornell University, effective August 30.
Read Cornell’s announcement
HR is offering an exciting new opportunity for job seekers as part of its commitment to attract a diverse and talented workforce. The resource is called Career Chats and its purpose is to connect prospective applicants with an HR coordinator to learn about jobs and find their place at UC Davis or UC Davis Health.
Nominations due May 4 to recognize supervisors for demonstrating exemplary efforts to provide reasonable accommodations for UC Davis employees with disabilities.
Effective May 15, Christine Lovely will have interim responsibility for budget and institutional analysis, finance, university resources, human resources, and administrative IT and business transformation.
The Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program forgives the remaining balance on your Direct Loans after 120 qualifying monthly payments. Your months of employment with UC Davis may also count towards loan forgiveness.
According to this research most of us have taken on more tasks than we feel confident we can reasonably achieve. Why do we do this? According to respondents, the top 5 reasons people give for their overgrown to-do lists include:
