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We use words like “student” and “employee” every day, but did you know that we don’t have standard definitions for these terms across the university and medical center? The Data Governance team is launching an initiative to standardize institutional definitions and is seeking assistance from colleagues across the university and medical center.

A validation has been put in place during the asset registration process that requires users to populate an Asset Coordinator. A warning will be shown to the user if this field is left blank. As a reminder, per Ohio State policy, Asset Management requires this field to be populated for all business assets.

The Office of the Controller has compiled an inventory of available trainings for end users broken down by finance and supply chain areas. The inventory provides the course name with link, description of the course, security roles the trainings are recommended for and if the training is required or recommended. The inventory will be updated as courses are added or edits are made.

The "Find Internal Service Delivery Lines by Cost Center" report has been enhanced to help tie the operational activity to the General Ledger. A new date range prompt has been added to this report to allow for searching ISD activity based on Accounting Date. Revenue worktags and Accounting Date (as a column) have also been added to the output of this report.

OTDI has partnered with Microsoft to offer virtual instructor-led training in October and November for many MS Office 365-centered topics, including Teams and OneDrive. Access the Mastering Microsoft 365 page in the Administrative Resource Center (ARC) and register. 

The Central Purchasing team has produced a Competitive Bid Waiver Process Guide. The guide is a valuable resource for those preparing to request a waiver of the competitive bidding on the purchase of goods and/or services. A detailed description of the supporting documentation required of requestors and suppliers and tips for the proper entry of a bid waiver requisition in Workday are included.

This article shares information about key dates for Spring 2023 tuition assistance (or fee authorization) processing as well as links to more information about the tuition assistance programs at the university.

System changes, including Job profile updates that support the Career Roadmap initiative will move to Workday production Saturday, October 22, thr