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As a student employee, you are required to take online training. These trainings must be completed within 30 days of hire for new students and must be completed annually for returning students. For more information about the compliance training and where to find it, check out the Student Employment website.
Training Modules
- FERPA
- Basic Safety
- Information Security
- Conflicts of Interest
- Sexual Harassment Prevention
- UMS ICT Accessibility Awareness
- Title IX
- Active Shooter Preparedness
- Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
Demonstrating Completion
Please submit the Pathway Transcript once you have completed the entire Compliance Training Pathway, please submit your Pathway Transcript using the Student Employee Mandatory Training Completion Submission Google form. You must be signed into your @maine.edu account to access this form.
You can find a copy of this transcript by selecting the drop down menu next to your name in the upper right hand corner of the UMS Academy screen. Select ‘Accomplishments’. Then from the Accomplishments page select the ‘Pathway Transcripts’ tab. If you have completed your training, you should see UMS Compliance Pathway for Employees and Student Employees AY 2022-2023. You can now select this and download a copy of the pathway transcript.
*Important note, in order to complete each training course, you must play ALL videos and view/download all documents included in the course. You CANNOT just complete the quiz in the “ProveIt” section.
Mandatory Reporting
In part of the mandatory training, all University employees are ‘mandatory reporters’. All university faculty, staff, student employees, and volunteers have a duty to report incidents of sexual discrimination, sexual harassment, and sexual assault involving members of the university community that they witness or which are disclosed to them. Because domestic violence, dating violence, stalking, and sexual misconduct can also constitute sex discrimination, information received by university employees about such incidents must also be reported. Student employees, peer advocates, and volunteers who learn of a violation of UMaine’s Sex Discrimination Policy in the course of their employment, programming, or volunteer responsibilities also are required to report.
For more information on mandatory reporting, what it entails, and who to contact, check out the UMaine Mandatory Reporting Guidelines webpage. You can also reach out to the FIG-MLA program coordinator, Torey Bowser, or the Office of Equal Opportunity at UMaine.
New MLA Seminar Series
The new MLA seminar course is designed to introduce MLAs to STEM education research, pedagogy, and methods to help students engage in active learning.
- Every new MLA must take the required seminar course or is INELIGIBLE FOR HIRE.
- Seminar is held weekly Wednesdays from 12–1 p.m. and 5–6 p.m. during the semester.
In addition to the University required training all new MLAs must attend the RiSE MLA seminar. This is a weekly meeting for new MLAs where we discuss different aspects of being a peer mentor and go over skills that can help you in the classroom. These seminars are Wednesdays from 12–1 p.m. and 5–6 p.m. during the semester. Students who cannot attend at least one of those sections are not eligible to be new MLAs.
Each semester we try to cover topics that are relevant to our MLAs and may change topics based on feedback we receive at the end of the semester. Here is the list of topics from Fall 2023 with a brief summary.
MLA Professional Learning Topics
- Asking Questions to Help Students
- Active Learning Strategies
- Dealing with Difficult Topics
- Engaging Students – Talk Moves
- Mindset
- Metacognition
- Why Students Leave STEM
- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
- MLA Balancing Act