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August 12, 2025
Monitoring Your Grants - A Reminder

As we begin a new fiscal year, with ongoing shifts in federal grant funding requirements, this is a great time to revisit the importance of regularly monitoring your grants. Consistent oversight isn’t just a best practice; it’s essential for ensuring compliance, protecting your funding, and keeping projects on track.

August 12, 2025
Time and Effort Reporting Reminder

As a recipient of federal funding, ÃÛèÖÊÓÆµ is required to document procedures and maintain supporting documentation for the distribution of an individual’s effort to sponsored agreements in accordance with federal regulations as defined by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Part 200 Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost P

August 8, 2025
Date Change for FY25 Balance Rollforward

We wanted to inform you of a change in dates regarding the FY25 fund balance roll-forward process.

August 7, 2025
Descriptive Links: A Simple Habit That Improves Clarity

Whether you're writing emails, reports, or documents, using descriptive link text (like "view the schedule" instead of "click here") helps everyone understand your content faster—and makes it more accessible.

July 30, 2025
FARM Enhancements

On July 31, 2025, the Financial Approvers and Related Metadata (FARM) application will receive a series of small but meaningful updates to enhance functionality and user experience.

Changes you’ll see in FARM include:

July 30, 2025
OBI Dashboard Enhancements

On July 8, 2025, several enhancements were implemented in the OBI Grants Funds Available dashboard, including new prompts and columns designed to give users greater flexibility in accessing grants data.

July 28, 2025
FY25 Balance Rollforward Process

As a reminder, when viewing FY26 results in OBI for designated, student organization, and gift sources, please remember the FY25 activity will not be rolled forward until August 9, 2025, after June activity is finished.

July 28, 2025
Key August Dates and Important Reminders for the New Fiscal Year

These final weeks mark the culmination of summer activities and preparations for the launch of the fall term. As we wrap up another successful fiscal year, we want to share important dates and reminders for August and a few reminders to smoothly transition into the new academic year - ready to welcome our new and returning Bobcats!

July 16, 2025
CTA Card Unavailable for Airline Reservations

The University’s Corporate Travel Card (CTA) has been compromised and has been closed effective immediately. As a result, the CTA card will be temporarily unavailable for airline reservations until early next week while we await the replacement card.

July 7, 2025
BobcatBUY Release 25.2 Enhancements Coming July 14, 2025

We are pleased to announce several user experience and interface enhancements to BobcatBUY that will go live on Monday, July 14, 2025. These updates aim to improve clarity, navigation, and workflow efficiency across multiple document types and functions.