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News from the Office of the Provost is an e-newsletter highlighting activities and news in academic affairs across Georgia State University. The newsletter’s inaugural edition was in October 2018.
Questions? Contact Jeremy Craig, Communications Manager for the Office of the Provost, at jcraig@gsu.edu for more information.
Future Publication Dates & Deadlines
The Provost’s Office newsletter is published quarterly during the fall and spring semesters.
Publication will resume in August for AY 2022-23. To submit items for the August 2022 Provost’s Office newsletter, email jcraig@gsu.edu no later than Monday, July 25, 2022 for priority consideration.
Publication for this ‘back-to-school’ edition is anticipated for Tuesday, August 16, 2022 – the Tuesday before the first week of fall classes.
A publication schedule, subject to change, has been posted below.
Tentative Provost’s Office Newsletter Publication Schedule and Deadlines
Academic Year 2022-23, Vol. 5
Schedule as of June 23, 2022. The Office of the Provost reserves the right to change this schedule at its discretion.
| August 2022 | October 2022 | February 2023 | April 2023 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| All Items Due | Monday, July 25, 2022 | Monday, September 25, 2022 | Tuesday, January 10, 2023 | Monday, March 20, 2023 |
| Publication Date | Tuesday, August 16, 2022 | Tuesday, October 18, 2022 | Tuesday, February 7, 2023 | Tuesday, April 11, 2023 |
Item Submission, Guidelines & Contacts
What is your publication frequency?
We publish twice in the fall and spring semesters, typically in August (during the week prior to the start of fall semester classes), October, February and April.
How is the newsletter distributed?
The newsletter is distributed to faculty, staff, colleagues, partners, fellow academic institutions and outside subscribers via email. Links in the body email take readers to the “full” newsletter page on this website, which contains extended content.
What items will you consider?
The Office of the Provost will consider news from academic units and other important information relevant to faculty and staff audiences.
Items that are great to share include, but are not limited to, calls for proposals, faculty/staff awards (including news about winning awards and calls for nominations), faculty opportunities involving professional service, service recognitions, policy/procedure changes, training opportunities, internal grant opportunities, workshops, new faculty/staff employee programs, academic program news (such as new programs), departmental/unit awards, and the like.
Who can submit items for consideration?
Faculty and/or staff at Georgia State, with very limited exceptions for non-profit educational, academic, or research organizations, such as those listed in the examples later in this paragraph, especially those with active partnerships or from scientific/academic organizations which provide funding/training opportunities. Examples: Partnerships involving Emory University, Morehouse College, Georgia Tech or another academic institution, the Atlanta Regional Commission on Higher Education, APLU, USU, University Innovation Alliance, National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, etc.
I’m with a business. Can I submit an item for consideration?
We do not accept commercial solicitations.
What do I need to know when submitting items that have deadlines, like calls for proposals or award nomination deadlines?
Please consider the publication schedule for any time-related element to your item – for example, an event date, or an award nomination deadline. We prefer if the deadline or date is at least seven days or more after the newsletter is published.
For example, if a newsletter is published on Tuesday, August 16, 2022, the event or deadline should be on or after Tuesday, August 23, 2022.
How do I submit items?
You can submit by either or both of the following:
Option 1: DIRECT: Email the Provost’s Office’s communications director, Jeremy Craig, directly at jcraig@gsu.edu.
Option 2: VIA COLLEGE/SCHOOL/UNIT: Contact your college/school/unit-level communications director (or their designee) as listed below. You may wish to do this if you want to have your news included in your own college/school/unit’s e-newsletter as well:
- ACADEMIC UNITS
- Andrew Young School of Policy Studies: Jennifer Giarratano, jgiarratano@gsu.edu
- Byrdine F. Lewis College of Nursing and Health Professions: In the interim, please contact the Provost’s Office directly at jcraig@gsu.edu.
- College of Arts & Sciences: Anna Varela, avarela@gsu.edu
- College of the Arts: Tony Mangle, amangle@gsu.edu
- College of Education & Human Development: Angela Turk, aturk@gsu.edu
- College of Law: Jaya Franklin, jfranklin@gsu.edu
- The Graduate School: Please email jcraig@gsu.edu directly.
- Honors College: Ashley McKelvy, amckelvy@gsu.edu
- Institute for Biomedical Sciences: LaTina Emerson, lemerson1@gsu.edu
- J. Mack Robinson College of Business: Jenifer Shockley, jshockley@gsu.edu
- Perimeter College: Rebecca Rakoczy, rrakoczy@gsu.edu (Ms. Rakoczy also edits the Perimeter Post, the faculty-staff newsletter for the college.)
- School of Public Health: In the interim, please contact jcraig@gsu.edu directly.
- University Library: Ian Webb, iwebb4@gsu.edu
OTHER UNITS - CETLOE and Instructional Innovation & Technology: Cassie Wilcox, cassie@gsu.edu
- Georgia State Online/Online Strategies: Nancy Byron, nbyron@gsu.edu
- Office of International Initiatives: Elaine Guillot, gguillot@gsu.edu
- Vice President for Research & Economic Development/University Research Services & Administration: Noelle Toumey Reetz, ntoumey1@gsu.edu
Why might the publication schedule change?
The Office of the Provost is a high-level administrative office that can experience unexpected developments requiring publication date changes.
We make every attempt to adhere to the announced schedule, but as the pandemic and subsequent events in 2020 to present have taught all of us, there are times when things may need to be adjusted because of rapidly changing situations.
If we have accepted an item for publication but the publication date changes, we will notify the person who submitted the news item.
Why might my item be declined for publication?
The Office of the Provost reserves the right to decide the editorial content of the newsletter based on appropriateness, importance and usefulness to the faculty and staff of the university. Additionally, other communications channels, such as the Provost’s Office Twitter, a college/unit level e-newsletter, the main University News Hub, or other methods, might be more appropriate for maximum effectiveness in communicating the message you’re trying to convey.
Subscriptions
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The Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Newsletter
The Provost’s Office communications staff, which operates the Georgia State University Diversity, Equity & Inclusion website, also publishes an institutional Diversity, Equity & Inclusion newsletter during the academic year.
The last issue for AY 2021-22 was published in early April. A new schedule will be determined at the start of the next academic year.
The publication schedule is expected to be once a semester.
Read back issues and subscribe at https://dei.gsu.edu/newsletters/. All Georgia State students, faculty and staff are subscribed to the DEI Newsletter by default, but guests can subscribe to the Georgia State DEI Newsletter by following directions at the DEI Newsletter page link above.