Watch your email for the announcement of the start of nominations for Unclassified Senate. There are 12 total seats available this year, in the Academic, Administrative, Research and Student Affairs categories.
December Unclassified Employee of the Month
Jill Hummels
Current title: Public relations director for the School of Engineering
What that means: Hummels is responsible for all marketing and communications efforts for the school, including writing, editing and producing issues of Kansas Engineer. She also served as the media resource to University Relations and elsewhere by reporting on faculty, staff and student accomplishments and events. Hummels works with the dean in preparing his communication pieces and coordinates with both the school and KU Endowment staffs to develop numerous recruitment and publicity brochures, ads, recognition materials and more.
We need unclassified staff members to volunteer for our annual “Hawks on the Hill” visit to the Kansas Statehouse Tuesday, Jan. 31. For the past several years, members of KU’s unclassified professional staff and university support staff have visited Kansas legislators to talk about our role at the university and to encourage their support of higher education.
Time commitment
There will be a briefing session for anyone interested in learning more about this event from 1 to 2 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 24 in the Olympian Room of the Burge Union. The date of the legislative visit is Jan. 31. In the past, volunteers’ time at the Statehouse has ranged from two to six hours.
Volunteers must use vacation or discretionary day leave for their time on the day of the visit.
If you have questions, contact:
Amanda Ostreko
Chair, Unclassified Senate Governance and Representation Committee
amandao@ku.edu
864-2932
Lea Chaffin
Chair, University Support Staff Legislative Affairs Committee
lchaffin@ku.edu
864-5899
Unclassified Senate and the University Support Staff Senate will host a panel of legislators for a brown bag lunch session from 12 to 1 p.m., on Friday, Jan. 6. The purpose of the session is to give KU employees a chance to consult with their elected legislators about the upcoming legislative session. The session will take place in the Relays Room of the Burge Union. The Pulse Coffee Shop will stock extra sandwiches for lunch that day.
This fall Justin Henning from University Relations led a series called ‘Social Media Mondays’ to help units effectively use social media as part of their communication strategy. The series will continue this spring, so mark your calendar for the noon hour of the last Monday of each month. Here are links to Justin’s past presentations:
Monday, Nov. 28, 2011
Twitter basics, principles and best practices
http://communicators.ku.edu/presentations/twitter_presentation.pdf
Monday, Oct 31, 2011
Foursquare: What is it? Is it for me?
http://www.communicators.ku.edu/presentations/foursquare_presentation.pdf
