Tia Lloyd, J.D., SHRM-CP
Executive Director of Human Resources
Office: (904) 470-8230
Sonya Holton
Human Resources Generalist
Office: (904) 470-8299
Nadine Gray
Human Resources Coordinator
Office: (904) 470-8237
Tia Lloyd, J.D., SHRM-CP
Executive Director of Human Resources
Office: (904) 470-8230
Sonya Holton
Human Resources Generalist
Office: (904) 470-8299
Nadine Gray
Human Resources Coordinator
Office: (904) 470-8237
The Office of Human Resources and Administrative Services provides excellence in employee services leadership in support of the academic mission and our customers. We succeed by earning the satisfaction of our customers, the trust and respect of those who govern us, support us and do business with us; and the pride of our employees.
Edward Waters College (EWC) is home to a diverse and dedicated workforce who helps to make this institution a great place to learn and work. The role of Human Resources is to support Edward Waters College through a variety of programs and services designed to inspire performance and achievement at the highest level on behalf of the College’s mission.
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Employee Resources
We help our employees grow and pursue their passion. Our philosophy is to support the total well-being of each person. EWC benefits help you perform at your best – at work, at home, and in the community. EWC offers competitive total rewards packages for eligible employees. Health and wellness options include:
• Florida Blue Preferred Medical (PPO)
• Humana Dental Insurance
• 403(b) Plan
• EyeMed Vision Care
• Colonial Life Insurance
• Supplemental Insurance
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
Paid Holidays
The College observes the holidays listed below by the closing of all departments and offices except when continuous service is essential. Paid holidays are available to EWC employees who qualify. Although non-exempt (or hourly) employees may observe College recognized holidays and special holidays granted by the President and Chief Executive Officer during a temporary/seasonal assignment, it should be noted that the needs of our students will dictate staffing schedules. Non-exempt temporary/seasonal employees may only be paid for actual hours worked as reflected on the timesheet.
The Division of Finance, Administration and Business Innovation would like to invite all EWC faculty and staff members to access their paystub(s) online through the Employee Self Service portal.
The web portal has three modules:
1. Time Management;
2. Project Time and Expense;
3. Procurement.
Currently, we have only enabled the View My Paystub feature. The other features will be coming online soon. We have attached an easy to use step-by-step document showing you how to access the web portal.
Features coming soon to this web portal are as follows:
a. View and Update your W-4;
b. View and Update your Skills and Training;
c. View and Update your Profile;
d. View and Update your Direct Deposit information;
e. Access, download and print your W-2’s.
Important. Please note this portal can only be accessed through the Internet Explorer web browser. There are specific compatibility issues with Chrome and Microsoft’s Edge web browsers which prevent access and display of information to and from the portal, so please do not use CHROME or EDGE to access this portal.
As we continue to test and enable the other features, please do not enter or submit any information at this time.
If you have any additional questions, please do call us at 904-470-8150 or email at businessoffice@ewc.edu. For technical assistance email IT Helpdesk at support@ewc.edu
Requests for employment reference and/or wage verification should be mailed or faxed to:
Edward Waters College
Attn: Office of Human Resources
1658 Kings Road, Suite 204
Jacksonville, Fla. 32209
Fax: (904) 470-8229
Employment references and/or wage verification requests must be accompanied by a signed waiver and/or release. Submissions may be responded to within 7 to 10 business days.
The Edward Waters College faculty members demonstrate 21st century pedagogy, problem and project-based student engagement, and academically service-based learning strategies.
Furthermore, the EWC faculty is fervently committed to modeling the institution’s core values, while ensuring compliance with the principles and policies of Edward Waters College.
Our professionals demonstrate sustained superior performance in modeling the job competencies as described below.
Business Approach: Employees must demonstrate exceptional job-related knowledge and understanding of their specialty or department as applied to our students and the College.
Communication: Employees must share information, concepts, and opinions with others in a relevant and meaningful way that results in clear understanding and desired outcomes.
Customer Focus: Employees must provide a world-class service experience by satisfying internal and external customer needs and building long-term relationships. Once direction is set, employees get results by actively managing and accomplishing objectives with others.
Drives for Results: Employees set and understand goals, and work consistently to reach short-term goals and support long-term strategy. Employees work with an elevated sense of ethics and urgency to deliver results that meet the highest standards of excellence.
Teamwork: Employees coordinate efforts to achieve common goals by communicating openly and leveraging the strengths of all team members.
Our administrators and supervisors demonstrate sustained superior performance in modeling the job competencies above and those as described below.
Strategic and Broad: Our leaders must create effective strategies, built upon a keen understanding of Edward Waters College’s business drivers, customer needs, and knowledge of financial, technological, and external influences.
Clear Capability: Our leaders must bring value and depth to their area.
A Decisive “Can Do” Ability to Execute: Our leaders get results by actively managing and accomplishing objectives, and through people they make sure good things happen.
Resourcefully Innovate and Flexibly Adapt: Our leaders see change as an opportunity, constantly learning and creating new ways for Edward Waters College to be successful and grow.
Build Teamwork that Makes Edward Waters College Successful: Our leaders put the needs of Edward Waters College first by building consensus, working across department lines, and taking advantage of the powers of joined forces toward shared goals.
Coach, Delegate, and Ensure Performance: Our leaders set high performance expectations and give people opportunities, feedback, and the latitude to learn and succeed.
Performance management at Edward Waters College is a shared process that is optimized when there is continuous feedback between employees and their supervisors about work expectations, goals and performance. Supervisors and employees are mutually responsible for completing the necessary steps to track and evaluate progress throughout the performance cycle. This collaborative process emphasizes employee engagement and development as a means to maximize work performance and satisfaction, and is designed to facilitate an ongoing dialogue between supervisors and staff members.
EWC values diversity and is an equal opportunity employer. EWC will make reasonable accommodations for qualified disabled applicants or employees.
“If there is anything more reprehensible than the practice of discriminiation upon a people because of race, color, religion, national origin or ancestry, it is for the people discriminated against to accept it without protest or resistance. It is an evidence of an utter lack of self-respect, the most priceless possession an individual or group can have, without which there can be no human dignity.”
– A. Philip Randolph, 1959
Asa Philip Randolph was a groundbreaking leader, organizer, and social activist who championed equitable labor rights for African American communities, becoming one of the most impactful civil rights and social justice leaders of the 20th century. His activism spanned 60 years, and included the organization of the largest labor union for Black workers in the United States and the coordination of two Marches on Washington (1941 and 1963).
Randolph spent the formative years of his early life in Jacksonville, Florida. He was born on April 15, 1889, in Crescent City, Florida, to an ordained minister in the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) church, the Rev. James William Randolph, and his wife, Elizabeth Robinson Randolph. In 1891, when he was three years old, his family moved to Jacksonville. He attended Edward Waters College (a Historically Black College founded in 1866) from ages fourteen to sixteen before transferring to the Cookman Institute (a Historically Black educational institute founded in 1872 and located in Jacksonville), from which he graduated as valedictorian in 1907.
In 1911, recognizing the constraints that racial segregation placed on his life in his native Florida, Randolph left Jacksonville for New York City. Initially he hoped for a life on the stage but redirected his talents to issues of fairness and equity in employment and civic life. During World War I, Randolph faced formidable odds as he worked to unionize African American shipyard workers and elevator operators. During this time, along with his friend and collaborator Chandler Owen, Randolph edited and published the Messenger magazine between 1917 and 1925, during which it served as a promotional vehicle for the Harlem Renaissance.
Randolph’s career as a labor leader took a new turn when he became the first president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters in 1925, which by 1937 would become the first official African American labor union. After his victories in the arena of organized labor, in the 1940s, Randolph focused his attention on the larger goal of ending racial discrimination in government defense factories and desegregating the armed forces, both accomplished through presidential decrees. Becoming involved in additional civil rights work, he was a principal organizer of the proposed March on Washington in 1941, and the more famous 1963 March on Washington during which the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous “I Have a Dream” speech.
On May 16, 1979, at age 90, Mr. Randolph passed away. He was cremated, and his ashes were interred at the A. Philip Randolph Institute in Washington, D.C.
There are several sites in Jacksonville that pay tribute to the legacy of A. Philip Randolph. He is the namesake of the A. Philip Randolph Academies of Technology, A. Philip Randolph Boulevard (formerly Florida Avenue), and the adjoining A. Philip Randolph Park on Jacksonville’s east side.
Phase One Instructions
In accordance with the advisement of the State of Florida and the City of Jacksonville authorities, EWC Administration has scheduled EWC staff the phased return to normal on-campus operations, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday beginning Monday, July 6, 2020. EWC faculty will return to campus on August 6, 2020.
As we transition back to campus, we ask for your patience, understanding, adaptability and flexibility, as this is a new experience for us all. It is imperative that all faculty, staff and students actively commit to adhering to the new processes that will be implemented to ensure the safety and wellbeing for one another, our families and our communities. It starts with each one of us and I believe together as a team we can rise to the challenge.
Consideration will be given for the implementation of alternative work arrangements for those employees who fall within the following parameters. These self-identified individuals are asked to contact the Office of Human Resources as soon as possible via email at humanresources@ewc.edu for further instructions:
As previously communicated, EWC is continuing to adhere to all recommended regulations and guidelines from government authorities related to the containment of COVID-19. As an attempt to ensure safety, we will be distributing personal protection equipment (PPE) along with cleaning/sanitization supplies to all faculty and staff for the purpose of minimizing cross-contamination and maintaining individual work space in between Sodexo scheduled cleaning protocols. Laptops and webcams will also be assigned to support on-campus virtual meetings during this process. Employees are required to wear their ID badges and should contact the IT Helpdesk via support@ewc.eduto obtain an ID badge prior to July 6, 2020. All employees are required to properly wear the face mask provided by EWC or pre-approved face masks covering the nose and mouth when on campus. Masks are not required when the employee is in the office alone.
ALL employees are asked to respect this process. Employees resistant to complying with wearing face masks and all other precautionary protocols will be sent home. We have proactively implemented several preventative measures outlined below.
Preventative measures currently in place include:
To reduce your risk of infection: Always wear provided masks unless you are in your office space alone. Wash your hands often with soap and water for at least 20 seconds, avoid touching your eyes, nose or mouth with unwashed hands, and avoid close contact with people who are sick. Please refrain from gathering in groups. Please continue to practice appropriate social distancing, 6 feet.
Employee Travel: Travel for faculty and staff is suspended indefinitely, with exceptions authorized by the President & CEO only.
Travel: If any faculty or staff have traveled to any areas (nationally or internationally) where cases have been reported, please immediately notify the College of such. If exposed to the virus, we are asking those individuals to self-isolate as recommended by the CDC, the World Health Organization and the U.S. State Department.
Meetings: Staff and other meetings should be conducted by phone or video conference per the advisement of the area Vice President.
Classes: As of now, EWC requires all summer courses are to be delivered online. As such, students and faculty will remain off-campus.
Lunch: When leaving campus for lunch, please remain mindful of social distancing, proper hygiene and the risks of contracting COVID-19.
The safety and well-being of EWC students, faculty and staff members is our top priority. We are closely monitoring guidance by the CDC, World Health Organization and other public health authorities, taking proper health precautions where warranted. We are also encouraging the college community to take any signs of illness seriously and seek medical attention as needed.
Guidelines for Suspected Illness and When to Stay/Go Home:
To protect EWC from COVID-19 while ensuring continuity of operations, all sick employees should stay home and away from the workplace, respiratory etiquette and hand hygiene should be encouraged, and routine cleaning of commonly touched surfaces should be performed regularly.
In the next coming weeks, you will be receiving an influx of information to guide us through this process. We ask that you please utilize it as requested. Please check periodically for updates and information via the College website at www.ewc.edu, campus email, and the College’s social media outlets, as these are the primary means of communication. Further, you may also follow updates from the local news affiliates.
The Edward Waters College administration thanks you for all you are doing to respond to the coronavirus. We will continue to reassess our practices based on developments and will advise you of any changes. Additionally, we encourage all of you to reach out to your immediate supervisor with any questions that may arise. Understandably, this is a time of uncertainty and stress; however, we appreciate your commitment to EWC in the face of these unprecedented challenges.
Telework Instructions
As we transition on Monday, March 23, 2020 to an “Interim Remote Work Period” via a teleworkmodality during this COVID-19 outbreak, we want to ensure that the intentions and expectations of performance and productivity are clearly communicated to all faculty and staff of Edward Waters College (EWC). Working from home does not constitute time-off or a relaxed work ethic. Rather, Telework is executing the same work obligations, but in an alternative location.
Remote working is most efficient when employees and supervisors communicate, plan and respond. Therefore, employees approved to work remotely from home on a temporary basis must:
Please understand that as you work from home, consistent communication is critical as email and telecommunication will be the only lifelines between internal and external constituents. Failure to timely respond to directives from your supervisor and/or job related requests for support from students, faculty, staff, and outside business partners and constituencies may constitute non-compliance and result in the use of vacation time. Therefore, ensure your availability and conduct yourself as if present in your on-campus office.
Employees approved to telecommute must have the following items to ensure appropriate functioning of remote work environments include:
Specific details will be emailed by Mr. David Simfukwe, Director of Information Technology
& Telecommunications regarding directions on call forwarding and remote access to campus. Faculty and staff can also contact the IT Help Desk at 904-470-8179, or their immediate supervisor for area related questions and issues.
Please contact the Office of Human Resources for additional questions and/or clarity regarding the Interim Remote Work Report via email at HumanResources@ewc.edu or call 904-470-8237 or 904-470-8230.
Starting September 7, 2021 from 10:00am-1:00pm and occurring the first week of every month EWU students can walk-in &/or make an appointment to secure a time slot for the various workshops offered:
BE EDUCATED. BE EMPOWERED. RESERVE YOUR SPACE!
August 31, 2019 07:00:00 PM
The Edward Waters College Emergency Management Team continues to closely monitor Hurricane Dorian, which is expected to be a Category 4 hurricane upon landfall in Florida.
Due to the easterly trajectory of the storm and its current speed, it has been determined that movement of the remaining on-campus students from their residence halls to the JWJ facility will not occur until further notice. Cafeteria hours will operate regular weekend hours on Sunday, September 1st and adjusted hours for Monday, September 2nd. Brunch will be from 11:00a.m. – 1:00p.m. and dinner will be from 5:00p.m. – 6:00p.m.
Be advised, you will receive official communication from the College via email, social media, the EWC Website, and Tiger Alert throughout the duration of the storm. We will continue to monitor weather conditions and update you accordingly.
The Mission of Residence Life and Housing is to provide a living learning experience that that supports all residential EWC students. We strive to create a safe wholesome living and learning environment that is conducive to the overall development of our students that aids in their academic success, leadership development, positive decision making and responsible citizenship. Services are provided to our students in a friendly, courteous and efficient manner which helps to promote academic success.
Mr. Quentin McBeth
Assistant Director of Housing Operations
904-470-8870
August 16, 2019
10:00am
Milne Auditorium
*All incoming Freshmen students are mandated to be in attendance for this occasion. Freshmen female attire is black skirts and white blouse. Male Freshmen attire is black dress pants, white collar shirt and neck tie.
Jacksonville, Fla. – Edward Waters College is proud to announce that the Department of Business Administration has been granted the highly esteemed International Accreditation Council for Business Education (IACBE) accreditation — a nationally and internationally based accreditation. The Department initiated a relationship with IACBE through membership status. Over the years, the EWC Department of Business Administration has proven itself worthy of this highly sought after status.
“The Department of Business Administration strives to prepare our students for responsible positions in business, industrial, and government entities. This accreditation signifies that we are training our students beyond the basic standards. In addition, we are training our students to be confident, competent, ethical, and responsible business managers and leaders in the today’s society,” said Dr. Francis Ikeokwu, chair of the business department at Edward Waters College. “We will continue to apply our students and push them as they develop and graduate from our program and the College.”
According to their Web site, the IACBE’s accreditation principles are designed to promote and stimulate excellence in business education, and each accreditation principle is linked to one or more characteristics of excellence in business education. IACBE accreditation signifies that the business curriculum and co-curricular experiences provide students with the knowledge and skills needed to function effectively in business and industry. For more information on IACBE visit http://www.iacbe.org.
Edward Waters College has received specialized accreditation for its business programs through the International Assembly for Collegiate Business Education (IACBE) located at 11374 Strang Line Road in Lenexa, Kansas, USA.
For a listing of accredited programs, click here.