How to Publicize Your People, Programs, and Events
Communications Office
Director: Kristan Tetens
205 Linton Hall
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI 48824-1044
Telephone: (517) 355-5563
Fax: (517) 432-0129
Through the Communications Office, Arts and Letters faculty have access to:
University Relations media services, including press release writing
and distribution; coverage of their activities in campus publications, including MSU News Bulletin, MSU Today, MUSES Magazine, MSU Arts and Humanities Update, and the MSU Alumni Magazine; coverage of their activities on campus websites, including www.msu.edu, www.cal.msu.edu, and www.events.msu.edu; on- and off-campus design and printing services (publications and web), in some cases at a discount.
Faculty should contact the Communications Office when they:
- Complete a major research project, especially one whose findings have important implications for an academic discipline or would be of general public interest
- Publish a new book
- Are invited to address an organization as a keynote or featured speaker
- Win a major award or recognition
- Have received a grant
- Become an editor or are named to the editorial board of a journal or other scholarly publishing venture
- Use innovative teaching techniques or offer a course using a new approach to a traditional topic
- Have students who are doing great things; students with unusual personal backgrounds; outstanding graduating students
- Are involved in an outreach initiative that improves peoples' lives
- Are applying technology in a new or unusual way in research, teaching, or outreach
- Are sponsoring a special event or performance
- Can offer an expert opinion on a current major news story
- Need advice on a complex or potentially controversial communications issue
- Make
significant changes in program requirements or develop new programs;
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Appoint or promote faculty and want to announce that to the MSU
and/or higher education communities;
- Are
renovating facilities.
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