Welcome!

The Division of Human Resources and Payroll is committed to providing superior customer service to all our customers.   The staff takes pride in every facet of the operation to ensure quality management of policy development, revision and enforcement to protect the integrity of the university.  Major goals for the past two years have included processes that places the division on the cutting edge of technology in efforts to become a paperless operation.   The Web for employees, driven by Banner, empowers the users to access leave and benefit information at any time at their convenience.    People Admin provides users throughout the world, nationally and internationally, to apply for positions and receive instant confirmation of receipt of their applications.   Moreover, the user can also track the progress of the application throughout the process.   Additionally, university administration completes the entire hiring and evaluation processes in a paperless fashion.   In 2009, we anticipate the installation of BEACON, a new software that combines Human Resources and the Office of State Personnel data entry with Central Payroll data entry creating a higher level of efficiency in ensuring that  employees are paid timely and accurately.    

The Division joins hands with the Chancellor and other divisions to ensure that the university produces superb students by ensuring that quality personnel in academia are recruited, budgets are carefully managed, fundraising is promoted and students are generally satisfied with their university of choice.

Join us on "A Journey Toward Excellence!"

Jean Moore Sims
Vice Chancellor for Human Resources & Payroll

Human Resources becomes the Division of Human Resources and Payroll

Effective December 1, 2007, Human Resources acquired the Payroll Department and became the Division of Human Resources and Payroll. Now the Division offers not only effective personnel related services but also payroll services for permanent (faculty, SPA, EPA) and temporary (including adjunct faculty) employees. The ten-person Division of Human Resources and Payroll includes: Jean M. Sims, Vice Chancellor for Human Resources and Payroll; Paula Bowe, EPA Personnel Administration; Tyisha Brothers, Human Resources Specialist; Tanisha Brumsey, Human Resources Specialist-Banner; Lynn Cooper, Human Resources Specialist-Benefits; Paula Gassaway, Human Resources Specialist-Recruitment and Selection; Sarah Harris, Administrative Support Specialist-Temporary Payroll; Donna James-Whidbee, Human Resources Consultant-Training, Employee Relations, EEO; Anitra Snowden, Administrative Support Specialist-Permanent Payroll; Mavis Ward, Human Resources Consultant-Personnel Analyst, Career Banding Coordinator.

HR Staff on the Move

Members of Human Resources and Payroll travel to the Human Resources Systems Conference held September 14-16, 2008 at Appalachian State University in Boone, NC. The 2008 Conference brings together representatives of the seventeen University of North Carolina campuses who work in Human Resources and Payroll systems. Appalachian State University, in conjunction with the Conference Planning and Program Committee, is presenting an exciting and informative agenda for conference attendees. Last year, Lynn Cooper and Anitra Snowden were elected to serve on the Human Resources Systems Conference Planning and Program Committee and they were instrumental in developing the 2008 Conference.

Donna James-Whidbee, Human Resources Consultant, has been invited to present during the 2009 UNC Financial Systems Conference scheduled for March 8-10, 2009 in Virginia Beach, Virginia at the Founder's Inn. Mrs. James-Whidbee presented at the 2008 UNC Financial Systems Conference, March 3-5, 2008, in New Bern and presented the following sessions: "Top Gun: A Flight to Effective Communication" and "Business Etiquette, More Than Eating With The Right Fork".