Tired of the daily torrent of ETSU e-mail announcements pouring into your inbox? Well, no more. The “important announcements” will stop on May 15.
The ETSU announcement policy has been revised due to the high volume of complaints regarding the number, approximately 10 to 15 per week, of announcements and the administration’s fear that critical information is being disregarded.
“For the safety of students, faculty and staff, we need to ensure reliable methods of disseminating critical information,” said Karen King, ETSU’s associate vice president of academic technology support. “Removing the influx of ‘important announcements’ and limiting the distribution of mass e-mails to essential information will help users recognize and respond to important information.”
To replace e-mail announcements, ETSU has implemented a new calendar and event system to inform students, faculty and staff of campus activities. Students can find information regarding the new system through the “calendar” link at the top of the ETSU homepage. With the new calendar system everyone will be able to: receive updates by subscribing to categories or establishing RSS feeds, sign up for notifications of event changes and cancellations, register for events and download them to a personal calendar, print a snapshot of important events and use the “e-mail a friend” function to share details about specific events.
Student organizations wishing to have upcoming events posted to the calendar should complete the Event Information Form at http://www.etsu.edu/calendar/documents/calform.pdf and submit it to Tricia Nguyen, the director of Student Activities in the Student Organization Resource Center (SORC).
Implementation of this calendar system will not impact other emergency communication policies and procedures that are currently in place.

Author