{"id":114163,"date":"2024-08-14T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-14T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/?p=114163"},"modified":"2025-05-08T10:21:16","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T15:21:16","slug":"leaders-discuss-plans-for-unmc-staff-council-campus-shuttle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2024\/08\/14\/leaders-discuss-plans-for-unmc-staff-council-campus-shuttle\/","title":{"rendered":"Leaders discuss plans for UNMC staff council, campus shuttle"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A new staff advisory council and a soon-to-launch pilot shuttle program highlighted Monday\u2019s all-campus forum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Progress continues on launching a new UNMC staff advisory council, which will be similar to those at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, University of Nebraska at Omaha and University of Nebraska at Kearney, said Interim Chancellor Dele Davies, MD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The council will provide opportunities for UNMC staff members to share ideas, promote common interests and facilitate communication with the chancellor, he said. \u201cI\u2019m excited for this development at UNMC. The council will bring a voice to the staff at the leadership level.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Members of the UNMC community can view the forum.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anne Barnes, vice chancellor for business, finance and business development, joined Dr. Davies at Monday\u2019s forum and said organizers have \u201cput months and months of work into helping us develop bylaws to have this group form, be effective and represent the staff of this campus.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Davies thanked Barnes, Sarah Gloden Carlson, JD; John Hewitt, JD; and staff members Stacey Coleman, Jacqueline Hankins Berry, Robin Jaeckel, Lacey Merica, Cody Phillips and Misty Pocwierz-Gaines for their work to date. More information will be shared in UNMC Today in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The pilot campus shuttle program, a joint project between UNMC and Nebraska Medicine, will launch Monday, Aug. 19, Barnes said, for students, staff, faculty and patients on the med center campus in Omaha. One shuttle will run weekdays from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m., and a second shuttle will run during peak hours. More information will be shared in both UNMC Today and Nebraska NOW later this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Parking Services will continue to assess current and future parking needs and how to best address them, Barnes said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In other areas, Dr. Davies and Barnes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n