Flashpoints

As of January 9^th, employees who elected to receive their W-2 via Firefly were able to access their 2025 W-2 document by logging into Firefly>Employee Self Service and clicking on the W-2 form tile.

Paper W-2 forms have been sent directly to employees’ permanent addresses listed in SAP/Firefly for distribution to those employees who either elected to receive a paper W2 or did not make an election for their W-2 method in Firefly.  Please contact Payroll at 865-8184 if you have questions regarding W-2 documents.

Please consider donating to the crisis leave program. This program allows any employee who earns vacation leave to donate up to five accumulated vacation days per calendar year. The donated leave goes to a pool of crisis leave hours that are used to help an employee who is experiencing a crisis and does not have sufficient leave to cover their absence period. Donation forms can be accessed through SAPPHIRE or the following link:

https://sapphire.bravais.com/adminportal/document/38097

Please submit completed forms to the Human Resources Office.

Allocation of tuition remission credits for the Spring 2026 semester can now be entered, and final submission is Friday, February 06, 2025. Allocate credits via Firefly/ESS, under Benefits, click “Employee & Dependent Scholarship”.

The 34th Annual Celebrating Excellence Retirement and Service Award Luncheon will be held on Tuesday, April 21, 2026. Please mark your calendars and plan to attend. Luncheon starts at 12:30 p.m. with service awards starting at 1:15 p.m. in the Ponderosa Room of the Nebraskan Student Union.  Tickets for the luncheon will be available to purchase at a time yet to be determined. Honorees at this event will receive free tickets to the luncheon.

Those employees considering retirement and who would like to be recognized at this year’s luncheon – please contact Human Resources no later than March 31.

If you are a Financial Responsible Party, you are fiscally responsible for fund centers, and you are required to attend training on Financial Reports every three years. Join us for hands on training sessions focused on the financial reports recommended in the  Fiscal Responsibility and Review of Financial Reports Policy. These sessions will help you:

• Follow the procedures within the policy
• Manage department or grant budgets
• Review detail transactions posted against your budgets.
• Perform and document that a review of financial reports is being performed on a regular basis.

Reporting Platforms Covered

• Firefly Business Intelligence (BI): Web-based, no installation required
• SAP: Requires SAP software installed on your laptop

Location: UNK Library, Room LIBR 011

Dates:

• Wednesday, February 25^th
• Tuesday, March 31^st
• Wednesday, April 22^nd

Please register at least 24 hours before the class that fits your schedule.

• Firefly Business Intelligence Financial Reporting sessions
  • Register HERE for February 25th 9:00-10am Firefly BI
  • Register HERE for March 31st 2:00-3:00pm Firefly BI
  • Register HERE for April 22nd 2:00-3:00pm Firefly BI

• SAP Financial Reporting session
  • Register HERE for March 31st 3:00-4:00pm SAP  

What to Bring: Your own laptop for hands-on learning

Employees and Departments/Groups of Employees can be nominated for different awards. The awards are presented monthly during the Staff Senate meetings.

Please consider nominating a staff member or group who has demonstrated excellence. It’s time to show our colleagues how much we appreciate what they do and why we’re so very proud to be Lopers!!

Staff Recognition Awards