September 22nd, 2011

We’ve learned that a handful of folks didn’t get the last e-mailed issue of Campus News, due to some technical issues.
For your benefit (and ours), a couple of notes:

• You can always find Campus News online at http://sites.keene.edu/cn. Even if you don’t receive the e-mail, you can find it there, with links to the most recent issue and to each archived issue. If you’re one of those who missed the last issue, it was September 8.
• This week, if you’ve received Campus News, would you be so kind as to ask a couple of other faculty or staff members around you if they received it? If they didn’t, please pass it along to them, and please let us know (or have them let us know) by commenting on this post or e-mailing campusnews@keene.edu. We only know there’s a problem if you tell us there’s a problem.
• You can find the CN schedule for this semester at this post from this summer.

Sorry for the confusion last time; we’re working on making sure it’s resolved this week.

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It seems we spoke too soon last week.

As many of us around campus are making cutbacks, Campus News is no exception. For the summer, CN will be posting monthly, on the first Thursday of the month. During the fall semester, we’ll be going biweekly.

So Campus News will come out:

• June 2
• July 7
• August 4
• August 25
• September 8
• September 22
• October 6
• October 20
• November 3
• November 17
• December 1
• December 15

Watch Campus News for updates beyond that.

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Summer is here, and some things slow down around campus.

But over here at Campus News, the presses keep rolling! As we did last summer, we’ll continue to publish every week.

Please help out by continuing to send news of events on campus, professional activity, and anything else you think the faculty/staff community should be kept abreast of.

Your guidelines, as always (also found on the “Getting your info into CN” page of the Campus News site):

• Do a short writeup of your event or information. Make sure you’ve got all the pertinent information included.
• Send it to campusnews@keene.edu. Do not send it to the individual e-mail addresses of the folks who work on Campus News; your item may still make it into CN, but it also may get lost in one of those individual e-mail inboxes.
• The deadline for each Thursday’s issue of Campus News is the Monday before at noon. Items submitted early are welcome; please specify which week you’d like your item to run, if it isn’t the current one.
• If you’re sending Family News not about your own family, Marketing and Communications will need to check with the affected individual before putting it in CN. If you want to avoid a time lag, check yourself and include the e-mail trail when you submit the item.
• Marketing and Communications staff reserves the right to cut or edit Campus News items for style, content, and length.

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As you know, we’re heading into heavy-duty holiday time around here. Campus News will be published on the following dates in November:

• Thursday, November 4
• Wednesday, November 10
• Thursday, November 18
• Wednesday, November 24

The submission deadline for each of those issues remains noon the Monday prior to publication.

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Have important news you want to run in Campus News? Got a message you want to go out to faculty and staff without cluttering people’s inboxes? Want to boost your group’s profile on campus? Or maybe you’re just aware of something impressive someone else deserves some credit for. Here are your guidelines:

• Do a short writeup of your event or information. Make sure you’ve got all the pertinent information included.
• Send it to campusnews@keene.edu. Do not send it to the individual e-mail addresses of the folks who work on Campus News; your item may still make it into CN, but it also may get lost in one of those individual e-mail inboxes.
• If you’re sending Family News not about your own family, Marketing and Communications will need to check with the affected individual before putting it in CN. If you want to avoid a time lag, check yourself and include the e-mail trail when you submit the item.
• Marketing and Communications staff reserves the right to cut or edit Campus News items for style, content, and length.

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You may recall that a few weeks back, we solicited your ideas for the name of our new “cause” feature.

Mary Pleasanton, Academic and Career Advising, gave us the winning idea:

Noteworthy Cause On Campus News!

Noteworthy Cause on Campus News it is! Thanks, Mary, and thanks to all who make the Campus News community a little more engaging with your comments.

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How did you like your new and (we hope) improved Campus News e-mail?
Here’s a little bit of a tour of what’s new, inspired by feedback from readers:

• The e-mail is prettier, thanks to hard work by Russ Cobb and Lynn Roman.
• It should be easier to find what you’re looking for in the e-mail, with teaser text.
• If you want to (and who would want to?) you can now opt out of receiving Campus News e-mails by clicking the “Unsubscribe” link at the bottom left of the e-mail.
• “Comment of the Week” available only in the e-mail version.

So, readers, keep inspiring us! What do you think? What’s working for you? What’s not? What would you like to see more of here? Please use this comments thread to give us your feedback; Campus News is, after all, the faculty-staff newsletter of Keene State College, and we want it to help you keep you in touch with the campus community. As well as we think we’re doing, we can do better — but only with your help.

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Welcome to a new recurring Campus News feature — maybe. This is a break with the way we’ve done things, but it seemed worth a try, in the interest of fostering the community that’s so important to all of us.

We’re going to try running a regular “support-this-cause” column. You can participate in two ways:

1. When you have cause-supporting news, send it (and all your other Campus-News-worthy news) to campusnews@keene.edu. This is your newsletter, and it depends on your input.
2. Suggest a name for the new column in the comments section below. The winner receives all the honor and the glory of seeing his or her idea in print. Heck, if you leave it with your real name, we’ll even acknowledge you publicly.

Ready for our first sample? We thought you might be.

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Thanks so much to the KSC community for your well-wishes after last week’s announcement. Robin Dutcher has done a fantastic job with this newsletter for nearly five years, and she leaves big shoes.

As I try to fill them:

• Please be patient. I will likely make mistakes here or there. Please let me know when I do, and I’ll try to correct them promptly.
• Give me feedback. There are a few changes potentially coming, and one that’s in effect immediately: Comments are enabled on all new posts. Please, take advantage of these new forums. And please, let me know what you love about Campus News, and what opportunities you see for improvement.
• Give me news. I am happy to be able to share your news with the campus, but I will do that better if you share it with me. E-mail the Campus News address with your professional updates, personal news, opportunities to do good in the community, policy shifts — whatever you’d like to share with your colleagues.

Thanks again for your support.

Best,

Lucy Webb
Marketing and Communications

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This is the last 2009 issue of Campus News. The first issue of 2010 will be on Thursday, January 14 (deadline Monday, January 11, at noon).

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The last issue of Campus News will appear on Thursday, December 10 (deadline for this issue is Monday, December 7, at noon). The first issue of 2010 will be on Thursday, January 14 (deadline Monday, January 11, at noon).

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