Make faculty aware of continuing account options for graduating students

On May 22, 2009, at 11:21 AM, Jonathan Reed wrote:

Having answered 2 questions today from admin assistants who want to know how to request that graduating students be able to keep their accounts for a bit longer, I wonder if some sort of preemptive communication to the community (itpartners? some other list of faculty?) would be useful? Maybe in May and January we send e-mail informing faculty of the sponsorship process, telling them that there's no charge, telling them who needs to send the e-mail, how often it will be renewed, etc.

If you think this is a good idea, I'd happily draft something up...

-Jon

On May 22, 2009, at 11:38 AM, Oliver Thomas wrote:

Hi Jon,

Yes, great idea. I think ultimately we'll want to have periodic communications out to faculty (beginning and end of semester seem like good times) and include info like this, so we don't inundate them with individual comms, but starting small is the right way to go so we can build up themes and content.

Oliver

On May 22, 2009, at 11:40 AM, Jonathan Reed wrote:

Should I draft something then? Do we have a means of communication that is not itpartners?

On May 22, 2009, at 11:43 AM, Oliver Thomas wrote:

You mean for this semester? Not really. I don't think there are any faculty lists we're allowed to send to (yet). But I was thinking of maybe a summer mailing. I could also send it around to accordiacs, oeit, and other groups who frequently have faculty contact. I think there is a mailing list for all the departmental course secretaries. Let me catch up with Vijay to find out what that is.

If you want to draft something, or maybe just ask Laura or Jacob if we already have boilerplate, we can capture that for when we have a place to send it to.

Oliver