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Here’s how you can disable cookies in common browsers:
1. Google Chrome
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Go to Settings > Privacy and security > Cookies and other site data.
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Block all cookies (not recommended, can break most websites).
Block third-party cookies (can block ads and tracking cookies).
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For Chrome on Android: Open the app, tap the three dots, go to Settings > Privacy and security > Cookies.
Be Aware:
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FOI #23-558 (12-20-23, 1:43 pm) - Subject - Previous records
Name - Joshua Eaton
Affiliation - Hearst Connecticut Media Group
I request any and all records released by UConn Storrs to Jennifer Mellon pursuant to FOI requests #23-530, which was filed on Nov. 30, 2023. I also request all final response letters associated with this request.
Please release these records to me on a rolling basis as your office processes them, rather than waiting to release any records until all records are processed.
FOI #23-556 (12-19-23, 1:10 pm) - Subject - SOGIA/AFFIRM
Name - Megan Brock
Affiliation - Daily Caller News Foundation
Any/all email communication and/or electronic records (including attachments, URL links and electronic database links) sent and/or received by any/all of the following: Marlene Matarese, Elizabeth Greeno, Lindsay Smith, Angela Weeks and Paige Hammond, to and/or from any/all of the following: January Contreras, Aysha E. Schomburg, Rebecca Jones Gaston, Julie Kruse, Sean Aaron Betsinger, Shelley Craig, Ashely Austin, Shannon Deinhart, Kristi Burre, Kerry Bollman, Shawna Borkoski, Rachel Levine, Sarah Boateng, from January 1, 2023, to March 1, 2023.
I am requesting records that contain any communications with any or all of following keywords and/or phrases: “CAFF” “Chosen Family” “Foster Care” “Affirm” “Finding Family” “Affirming” “Regulation(s)” “LGBTQ” “SOGIE” “Family Acceptance” “Abuse” “LGBTQ2S” “Youth Acceptance Project” “YAP” “Chosen Family”
FOI #23-555 (12-19-23, 1:10 pm) - Subject - SOGIE/Innovations Institute
Name - Megan Brock
Affiliation - Daily Caller News Foundation
Any/all email communication and/or electronic records (including attachments, URL links and electronic database links) sent and/or received by any/all of the following: Marlene Matarese, Elizabeth Greeno, Lindsay Smith, Angela Weeks and Paige Hammond, to and/or from any/all of the following: January Contreras, Aysha E. Schomburg, Rebecca Jones Gaston, Julie Kruse, Sean Aaron Betsinger, Shelley Craig, Ashely Austin, Shannon Deinhart, Kristi Burre, Kerry Bollman, Shawna Borkoski, Rachel Levine, Sarah Boateng, from July 1, 2023, to October 1, 2023.
I am requesting records that contain any communications with any or all of following keywords and/or phrases: “CAFF” “Chosen Family” “Foster Care” “Affirm” “Finding Family” “Affirming” “Regulation(s)” “LGBTQ” “SOGIE” “Family Acceptance” “Abuse” “LGBTQ2S” “Youth Acceptance Project” “YAP” “Chosen Family”
Affiliation - Student at University of Connecticut
Persuant to FOIA I am requesting the following information:
• The amount of money GSS has spent for each of their events in FY 2022, 2023, and 2024, broken down by vendor (name, amount of payment, and for what purposes) and event.
• The number of attendees at each GSS event in FY 2022, 2023, and 2024, broken down by event.
• The 4 individuals who were nominated to run for GSS President for the vacancy election held at GSS Senate Meeting on December 6, 2023.
• The number of tickets that were sold (and refunded) for the GSS Fall formal held on December 09, 2023.
• The number of people food was arranged for the GSS Fall formal held on December 09, 2023.
• The number of actual attendees for the GSS Fall formal held on December 09, 2023.
FOI #23-551 (12-15-23, 2:40 pm) - Subject - Aggregate Faculty Salary Information for the College of Engineering
Name - Jeffrey McCutcheon
Affiliation - University of Connecticut
The UConn Provost's office created spreadsheets that provided faculty salary information for individual departments in order to facility salary equity requests for faculty. This information was provided only for the faculty in our individual departments. To do an appropriate salary equity evaluation, we need to see salaries of ALL of the faculty in the College of engineering. This is important for several reasons:
1. Many departments only have 1 or 2 of a certain rank of faculty, making comparisons of salaries impossible
2. Online resources fail to provide key metadata (e.g. appointment type, meaning 9, 10, 11, or 12 month appointment) which can skew salary numbers when making comparisons.
3. Online resources fail to account for summer salary differences in a year-to-year basis, meaning that salaries can jump and vary greatly if a faculty has a "good" or "lean" year.
To provide transparency for salary equity, I would like all of the salary spreadsheets distributed to the College of Engineering. All of the information is public, I just want the spreadsheets that the Provost's office already assembled since it contains all of the necessary information in one place.