Campus communications
Communicating with staff, faculty and students
There's a lot of focus on telling the world about UAF, but it's also important to talk to each other. Our employees are our best brand ambassadors, and good communication with them makes them even better.
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The Cornerstone is UAF’s official email newsletter for employees and students and is the primary way the university will communicate with you. It covers university news and announcements, which are also posted on UAF's news and information site. Students receive Cornerstone weekly on Tuesdays. Employees receive it on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
Cornerstone shares stories and information about:
- Employee and student accomplishments
- Important deadlines
- University news
- Campus safety, services and policies
- New and retiring employees
If your unit has a public information officer, please work with them to submit items to Cornerstone. If your unit does not have a PIO, you can . Please note the following Cornerstone submission deadlines:
- Tuesday student and employee Cornerstones – 5 p.m. Thursday
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Thursday employee Cornerstone – 5 p.m. Monday
Please note that events are no longer included in Cornerstone, but instead will be sent to campus via the UAF This Week email.
UAF This Week is emailed to employees and students on Monday morning and will include the following week's events. To submit items to UAF This Week, add your event to the offical UAF events calendar on .
We recommend you submit your event at least two weeks in advance. For more information about planning an event on campus, visit the events page.
Digital signage makes use of digital displays and are a way for UAF departments to advertise what they are working on or what activities are happening around campus. provides the technical infrastructure.
To submit slides for consideration for official UAF digital signage playlists, email them to UAFdigitalsignage@alaska.edu.
The campuswide email lists for all faculty, staff and students are administered by University Relations. They are used sparingly and are reserved for announcements such as chancellor's communications, policy decisions, senior management appointments, benefits information, changes in major operating procedures, safety and holiday information, campuswide initiatives, and announcements that affect a large portion of UAF. All campuswide emails are posted in the archives of the listserv from which they originated.
- Keep your email efficient, direct and as clear as possible.
- Use active, rather than passive, voice.
- Include rationale for changes.
- Link to documents rather than sending attachments via email.
- Use web links that lead to more information.
- Avoid sending to multiple lists and then to the all-campus email.
For more information about faculty, staff and student lists, email University Relations at uaf-university-relations@alaska.edu.
- Announcements for personal, political or monetary gain
- Non-UAF announcements
- Isolated department announcements, e.g., a picnic for only a portion of the campus community
- Flyer posting locations
- announcements such as weather closure and other campus emergencies
- Follow @uafairbanks on our page, account, and
**UAF employees and sdbutro are autosubscribed. Please note, if you opt out of sdbutro you will not receive emergency messages from UAF.
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