Keep yourself well-informed about UVic

Unsure about where you should look for the most up-to-date news about the campus? These four information channels provide a timely mix of news, information and resources of interest and relevance to the campus community.

The Ring newspaper: UVic’s community news source

The campus newspaper, which now publishes eight issues per year, was established back in 1975. Four decades later, more than 1,000 faculty and staff told us in a survey that they value the paper as a reliable, trusted source of information about the UVic campus. The Ring newspaper is available in campus publication boxes across campus, and is sent via campus mail to departments and via Canada Post to off-campus subscribers.

The Ring website: a new edition arrives this month

This month, the online edition of the Ring at ring.uvic.ca moves into the standard online template for the university. This shift is more than a paint job—it’s a preparation for the future. The new site is mobile-friendly, has modern tools for sharing articles on social media, and brings the last 12 years of Ring content into a present full of possibilities.

Consider the September 2016 Ring site an interim step, though. Most of the under-the-hood enhancements we’ve made to the Ring content-management database, with help from University Systems, won’t be obvious until 2017. In the meantime, we’ll be working on the next version of the Ring site, to make it (and the other channels) meet the expectations and future needs of the campus.    

You can also find a mix of Ring stories and news releases at uvic.ca/news.

Current Faculty and Staff: the internal homepage

The “front page” of uvic.ca is the public face of the university, designed for all audiences from potential students and industry contacts to partners in the community. For current faculty and staff, we encourage setting your homepage to uvic.ca/current-faculty-staff—where you’ll find the most recent news and announcements, quick links to the most commonly used electronic tools and resources, and a curated list of events. For more information about the new features of the internal homepage rolled out on Sept. 6, see this Ring article.

Campus Checklist: delivered to you biweekly

Campus Checklist is a brief campus news digest sent to all UVic faculty and staff via their university-supplied email. It is intended to help strengthen communications between faculty and staff in different areas, support UVic’s culture of respect, inclusion and collaboration, build a sense of shared enterprise and improve campus communications. If you’re a regular campus employee and aren’t receiving Checklist, please check your junk mail folder and/or add mail@senderauthenticated.com to your preferred recipients list. Still not seeing it? Email checklist@uvic.ca for support.

Several other campus-wide information sources supplement these sources, to keep the community informed, including broadcast emails on standalone topics, the Digicaster digital signage network and the regular series of town-hall style Campus Update sessions hosted by the president and other members of the university executive.