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  • Employee vs Independent Contractor Classification

    Richard Hunter | February 6, 2025
    Requirements have been updated to provide guidance on how employee vs independent contractor work at Ohio State should be classified.If you plan to hire certain types of individuals or businesses for work in your area, you must follow these requirements to ensure they are correctly classified as employees or independent contractors. The Independent Contractor Guidelines provide an overv...

  • Grants Reporting Updates

    Richard Hunter | February 6, 2025
    Report Enhancement: Find Journal Lines - OSU - Posted Journals by Amount Type: The "Find Journal Lines - OSU - Posted Journals by Amount Type" report has been enhanced with an additional field for "Object Class" in the output of the report.Grant - FDM Values Report Enhancements: The output of the report "Grant - FDM Values" has been enhanced to include four additional columns. Those columns inclu...

  • Procurement Reporting Updates

    Richard Hunter | February 6, 2025
    Supplier Contracts Prompt Added to Procurement Reporting: A "Supplier Contracts" prompt has been added to three reports to enable users to search by supplier contracts. The reports include "Find Supplier Invoice Summary - OSU," "Find Supplier Invoice Detail - OSU," and "Find Purchase Order Summary - OSU."Find "Requisition Summary - OSU" Prompt Update: An update to the prompt "Supplier" on the "Fi...

  • Updated Information Technology Security Policy, includes critical incident response information

    Beth Varcho | February 5, 2025
    OTDI’s Digital Security and Trust team has released an updated Information Technology (IT) Security Policy. The new policy outlines the IT security requirements for all information assets and systems managed by the university and guidelines for the anyone who use these systems. It also integrates guidance from the former Information Security Incident Response Management policy to provide users wi...

  • Visit Ohio State’s AI site to find secure, approved AI tools

    Beth Varcho | February 5, 2025
    New generative AI tools become available every day. However, not all AI tools prioritize user privacy and data security. Ohio State is proactively identifying tools that are reliable and secure for faculty, staff, and students to use.OTDI’s Digital Security and Trust team has reviewed AI tools and approved those that meet our security standards, which are listed on Ohio State’s AI.osu.edu site. T...

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