February 26, 2026
Important Changes to Grant Cost Share Best Practices
We’re sharing updated guidance on setting up grant cost sharing and how it impacts costing allocations so the work tag “fund” is recorded correctly for cost sharing purposes.How Grant Cost Share Works in Workday:Grant cost share requires three worktags to be applied to the Costing Allocation:
February 18, 2026
Workday Updates for Attachments in Hire, Change Job, or Add Job Event
The purpose of this email is to inform you of a business process update in the Hire, Change Job, and Add Job business processes. Background
February 19, 2026
Updated Faculty Non-Teaching Overload Process
Greetings,There is a business process update for Faculty Non-Teaching overloads in the Add Job business process.BackgroundIn the current configuration, an HR Analyst selects the “Non-Teaching Overload” job profile for a faculty member and its routes for approval. The current highest approval is the Central Compensation Partner. A correction has been implemented that all Faculty Non-Teaching Overloads at UMCP and Shady Grove should route to the Provost Office instead of the Central Compensation Partner.
January 8, 2026
Annual Time Off Carryover - Not Eligible for Payout
We are making an update in Workday to better assist employees in managing their annual time off carryover hours. Beginning January 11, 2026, there will be two (2) separate annual time off banks for regular staff, 12-month faculty, and C2 employees:
December 11, 2025
Compensation Plan Updates
Several improvements have been made in the “Propose Compensation” task.
December 11, 2025
Consolidated Hire Template and Reordering of Hire Tasks
The Hire business process has a new consolidated template. The consolidated hire template allows for a user to complete the following tasks during the initiation step of the Hire: Edit Government IDsPropose CompensationChange Organization Assignments
October 30, 2025
New Recruiting Role
A new role in Workday called “Guest Reviewer” has been created to provide individuals view-only access to Job Requisitions and the Candidate Grid.
October 6, 2025
New Job Profiles Added
Per campus feedback, we have created new Trainee Job Profiles to better meet department hiring needs. These trainee job profiles are used for hiring students who are not currently registered at UMCP or UMES—these could be students registered at other Maryland institutions or high school students, who therefore do not have student profiles in Workday.
October 6, 2025
Quick Start Guide: Final Leave Payouts in Workday
We have created a new Quick Start Guide to help users understand the process of processing a final leave payout for a terminating employee.
October 3, 2025
Workday Release 2025R2 Updates: Compensation and I-9
Learn more about Workday 2025R2's impacts on two business processes: Compensation and I-9