All 2015-2016 UCA parking permits expire August 15, 2016.

STUDENTS

Student/Resident Parking Permits for 2016/2017 will be available as of July 11, 2016. Permits can be picked up anytime at the UCA Police Department. No payment for the permit is necessary at the time of pickup; the cost of the permit is included in student fees.

FACULTY/STAFF

Faculty and staff are asked to browse to https://www.ucapd.net/permit and follow the instructions to print your parking permit application form. Once you have printed your application form, please mail or bring the form, and payment, to the UCA Police Department. Benefits eligible employees who elect the payroll deduction option MUST sign and date their form.

Please do not send cash.

Have a great academic year!

UCA Police Department Will Be Out in Full Force to Catch Drunk Drivers

As summer winds down, University of Central Arkansas Police Department is ramping up its enforcement efforts as part of a national crackdown on drunk driving. The 20-day, high-visibility campaign, Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over, is a partnership with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to curb impaired driving and save lives. August 21-September 7 (Labor Day), law enforcement partners nationwide will show zero tolerance for drunk driving. Increased state and national messaging about the dangers of driving drunk, coupled with checkpoints and increased officers on the road, aim to drastically reduce the toll of drunk driving.

And what a toll it is. In 2013, there were 10,076 people killed in drunk–driving crashes, almost a third of all traffic fatalities. Thirty-eight percent of crash fatalities on Labor Day weekend that year involved drunk drivers (with blood alcohol concentrations [BACs] of .08 or higher), amounting to 161 lives lost. And we’re not just talking about a little bit of alcohol, either. More than a quarter (27%) of the crash fatalities that occurred on Labor Day weekend involved drivers with BACs of .15 or higher—almost twice the illegal per se limit.
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University employees are receiving fraudulent e-mails indicating a change in their human resource status. The e-mail contains a link directing the employee to login to their human resources website to identify this change. The website provided appears very similar to the legitimate site in an effort to steal the employee’s credentials. Once the employee enters his/her login information, the scammer takes that information and signs into the employee’s official human resources account to change the employee’s direct deposit information. This redirects the employee’s paycheck to the bank account of another individual involved in the scam.

Consequences of this Scam:

• The employee’s paycheck can be stolen.
• The money may not be returned in full to the employee.
• The scammers can take the employee’s log-in credentials and attempt to log into other accounts that belong to the employee.

Tips on how to Protect Yourself from this Scam:

• Look for poor use of the English language in e-mails such as incorrect grammar, capitalization, and tenses. Many of the scammers who send these messages are not native English speakers.
• Roll your cursor over the links received via e-mail and look for inconsistencies. If it is not the website the e-mail claims to be directing you to then the link is to a fraudulent site.
• Never provide credentials of any sort via e-mail. This includes after clicking on links sent via e-mail. Always go to an official website rather than from a link sent to you via e-mail.
• Contact your personnel department if you receive suspicious e-mail.

If you have been a victim of this scam, you may file a complaint with the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center at www.IC3.gov. Please reference this PSA number in your complaint.

The IC3 produced a PSA in May 2014 titled “Cyber-related Scams Targeting Universities, Employees, and Students,” which mentioned the university employee payroll scam. The PSA can be viewed at http://www.ic3.gov/media/2014/140505.aspx.