Internal Communications

Cresandra Smothers, Director, 205/348-7661, csmothers@ur.ua.edu

Internal Communications is responsible for providing news and information to UA faculty, staff, students and other constituent groups. A complete description of the policies and procedures of Internal Communications may be found here.

Vehicles for communicating with these groups include the following:

• Dialog – a weekly faculty/staff tabloid. Deadlines are Wednesdays at noon 10 days prior to requested date of publication. A complete 2008 Dialog publication schedule may be found here.

• Dialog Extra – a twice weekly supplement to Dialog that is e-mailed to faculty and staff each Monday and Thursday. Deadlines are Wednesdays and Fridays at 4 p.m.

• UA Student News – a weekly e-mail of events and announcements sent to students on Tuesday evenings. The deadline for submissions is Wednesday.

Links to online submissions forms:

• Dialog and Dialog Extra: http://dialog.ua.edu/dialogsubmit1.html

• UA Student News: http://uanews.ua.edu/student/submit.html