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Daily Email Newsletter for Faculty and Staff
All electronic campus news should be delivered through QNews, the university's daily (weekday) email newsletter. Newsletter content is based on the campus community's submissions, with content edited by University Relations and formatted in AP (Associated Press) style.
QNews drops to a twice-weekly delivery during the summer, and returns to daily delivery at the start of the new academic year.
To submit news and event information to QNews, email content to forqnews@queens.edu by 4pm the day before desired delivery.
Content for QNews should include news and information appropriate for faculty and/or staff. Content should not include personal items that could be sent to a small internal email group.
University Relations reserves the right to edit and omit submitted content, and/or refer to other campus messaging mechanisms such as bulletin boards, personal email lists, etc.
In order to manage information effectively, a single QNews item may only be submitted and published in QNews twice.
Example: Event A is to take place on February 8.
Submit to QNews on January 20 to announce upcoming event; submit again on February 7 to remind and encourage attendance.
If you know what days you would like the information published, please indicate the dates in the "subject" line of the email. This is the best way to communicate this to the forqnews editor.
QNews submissions should be kept to a maximum length of 2 paragraphs. University Relations encourages the campus community to publish their full story as a web news or event item via trained web liaisons.
Example: News Story B is a page-long story about the success of Event A. Publish the full text of Story B, with photo(s), as a web news item; submit a brief summary to QNews and include a hyperlink to the full news item web page. (example above in the Royals Men's Soccer Southeast Regional Champions QNews sample.)
For urgent and essential updates, "Special" QNews editions can be sent by permission of the Associate Vice President for University Relations. These special editions are classified into two categories:
- Special Bulletin: Urgent, must-have information; inclement weather closing; may be life-threatening; urgent and immediate action needed.
- Special Update: Important, timely information; inclement weather prediction; not life-threatening. Often event-related. Appropriate for changes to systems and policies, letters from President, event "Sold Out" or time-change announcements.
Special Bulletins and Updates should be approved by a Vice President or the President prior to submitting to the AVP for University Relations for delivery.
In the event that UR staff is unavailable, VPs and the office of the President may authorize and deliver an urgent QNews Special Bulletin or Special Update. (Training available from UR upon request.)
Do not use "#staff" for campus wide communication. "#faculty" is available for dean and vice president use only.
Please contact University Relations at 704 337-2458 if you have a Special QNews submission or questions pertaining to Special Qnews items.
Submit QNews content to forqnews@queens.edu by 4pm the day before desired delivery.
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