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Key Issues and Hot Topics
Recent News Releases
Monthly Highlights
News Clipping Service
Key Issues and Hot Topics
News Service provides background information on topics of current and continuing interest to members of the University community, alumni, the general public, and the media.
Lecturers’ Employee Organization ratifies new three-year contract
Members of the Lecturers' Employee Organization (LEO) have overwhelmingly ratified the bargaining unit's second contract with the University of Michigan. The three-year agreement, tentatively agreed to in June, will expire May 15, 2010.
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THE CONSISTENT UNIVERSITY IDENTITY:
Tools for preserving and using a powerful image.
Lisa Rudgers hosted a Communicators’ Forum symposium addressing the importance of maintaining a consistent University identity, and she unveiled the new Identity Guidelines website, which was designed to help University communicators navigate the sometimes murky identity waters in this diverse environment. Among the topics covered were:
- How a consistent University image can strengthen your messages and save you money
- New policy guidelines for the use of the University name and images
- The new University word mark, available now for use
- A new web-based logo toolkit (Umich password required) with downloadable images and quick and easy answers to your usage questions
- Knowing when you need approvals—or not—to use logos and word marks
- A U-M PowerPoint template (448 KB) for use in University presentations
The following PowerPoint presentations are available for download:
Communications Process for U-M Campaign
Lisa Rudgers presented a special briefing for communications staff involved in the U-M campaign. Among the topics covered were:
- A new, coordinated approach to publicity for major gifts
- Gathering information to help tell a compelling story
- Setting the right expectations with donors
- The approvals needed before going to press
- Guidelines on site dedications and groundbreakings
A letter from Lisa Rudgers and three handouts that were provided in this session are available in HTML and downloadable formats:
Lecturers’ Employee Organization (LEO) website
The LEO began negotiations with the University of Michigan on August 19, 2003. LEO represents some 1,500 non-tenure-track instructional staff working on the University’s Ann Arbor, Dearborn, and Flint campuses. Visitors to the LEO website will find a historical record of the bargaining process now underway, facts and figures about lecturers on all U-M campuses, and periodic updates on negotiations and outcomes.
New U-M undergraduate admissions process to involve more information,
individual review
A new process for undergraduate admissions at the University of Michigan
will gather more information about student applicants and will include
multiple levels of highly individualized review.
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talking points (MS Word, UMICH password required) >>
Michigan Today News-e makes its debut
News-e is a monthly e-mail newsletter (and corresponding
website), an
offshoot of Michigan Today, that is edited by John Woodford and designed
by Lenny Zenith. It offers a package of news and features, much of it
generated by writers at the News Service, and some of it original to
News-e. Especially now that the budget situation has reduced Michigan
Today to two issues a year, News-e gives the University a much-needed
vehicle for more frequent communication with alumni and friends.
News-e goes out on a request-only basis to those
who sign up
for a subscription. U.S. Supreme Court rules on University of Michigan cases
The Supreme Court of the United States today (June 23) upheld
University of Michigan Law School admissions policies and reversed, in
part, its undergraduate policies.
Read President
Coleman’s letter to the U-M campus community >>
View the News Service page >>
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Admissions Lawsuits home page >>
Recent News Releases
Monthly Highlights
View brief descriptions of items of interest that we’ve collected on a monthly basis. We have highlights in MS Word format for:
News Clipping Service
We are pleased to offer a new electronic news clipping service for campus constituents. If you are a U-M communicator, you can sign up for the service at no charge by sending e-mail to kelger@umich.edu. You will receive a daily e-mail message, giving highlights of the day’s news related to the University and to higher education, along with clickable links to the complete stories.
Clips are also logged at the newsclip website. There you can choose a browsable, printable page with the day’s clips, or you can search for specific clips in the archive. Because of copyright concerns the clips are not viewable by the general public. You will be asked for an ID and password. Eventually we will use your uniqname and password but for now we have a temporary login (guest) and a temporary password (clips).
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