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The University of Missouri System recently started a weekly podcast to share topics of interest throughout the entire university community. Jennifer Hollingshead, the UM System's interim director of communications, conducts the interviews and produces these podcasts. She recently chatted with Andrew Careaga, director of communications at Missouri S&T, to talk about the name change.
Name Change News: May 13, 2008
The latest news on the name change implementation. Also available on the Name Change Conversations weblog: http://namechange.mst.edu.
In this issue:
Things to do before the break
Using the logo with department names
Missouri S&T is the new UMR
Things to do before the break
As the academic year winds down, now is a good time for students, faculty and staff to revisit their end-of-year to-do list and add these items:
Notify your contacts that umr.edu is going away. As you’ve previously read, all umr.edu web and email addresses will no longer work after July 31. If you want your friends, loved ones, research contacts, prospective employers or others to find you, send them a note notifying them of your new email address. We’ve drafted a sample letter for you to use precisely for this purpose.
Update your email signature to reflect the new email and web domains, and to help reinforce the fact that umr.edu is going away. Here’s a sample you can use for your own email signature.
Joe Miner
Mascot
Missouri University of Science and Technology (formerly University of Missouri-Rolla)
Phone: 573-341-XXXX
Email: XXX@mst.edu
Visit Missouri S&T online: http://www.mst.edu
Please update your contact information! All umr.edu email and web addresses will disappear July 31, 2008. See http://helpdesk.mst.edu/namechange/ for more info.
Update your voicemail to reflect the new name. If your voicemail still references “University of Missouri-Rolla,” you’re out of the loop. Re-record the message using “Missouri University of Science and Technology.” In addition, replace any “UMR” reference in your voicemail with “Missouri S&T.”
Using the logo with department names
The graphic standards website (http://standards.mst.edu/) was recently updated with information on how to incorporate department and organization names with the Missouri S&T logo. See http://standards.mst.edu/logosgraphicidentity/brandelements.html and scroll down to the subhead, “Using the word mark with department names.” For assistance, contact the printing services office at 341-4264 or log on to http://printingmail.mst.edu/ .
Missouri S&T is the new UMR
Please, please, please use Missouri S&T as the short version of Missouri University of Science and Technology. KMST is the name of the public radio station on campus. Our web presence is mst.edu. These are the only exceptions to “Missouri S&T.” Please refrain from using MST or any other acronym to describe Missouri University of Science and Technology (Missouri S&T).
Remember, we are Missouri S&T!
Readers of this blog might be interested in knowing that it has been nominated for an eduStyle Award in the best institutional blog category.
Missouri S&T's IT department has set up an informative website with all the details you need to know about the decommissioning of umr.edu, and with tips on how you can help get the word out.
What you can do to help
If you still haven't purchased an old UMR sign from the university's eBay surplus store, you still have time. But not much time. The bidding on the last set of signs ends in just a few days.
Here's a sampling of the signage still available:
Act now to own a piece of campus history.