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Campus Messaging System

Student Lists Eagle Cry and students@lasierra.edu

The students@lasierra.edu email list is an updated version of the "LaSierraStudents" list and includes all currently registered students. This list will be used exclusively for communication with students regarding academic matters, financial matters, student resources and other student-centric communication from Records, Student Finance, Administration, faculty members, and various departments to include the following types of messages:  

  • quarterly registration and financial aid deadlines
  • graduation schedules and deadlines
  • new academic program offerings
  • student tutoring, career planning and other student-centric services
  • Student Wellness Services messages of importance/urgency specifically for students
  • Free food and holiday meals specifically for students

Messages to students will be issued and received in real time while the student is actively registered. Students may not disengage from this list.

The students@lasierra.edu list is administered by the Records Office, Registrar, Administration, and Public Relations/Marketing office.

Student Life announcements Eagle Cry

The students@lasierra list will not be used for general student event announcements. All communication that relates to student-oriented events such as student club activities, the HUB Fair, intramural games, missions, etc., should be sent through the weekly Eagle Cry e-newsletter published by the Office of Student Involvement each Monday on a subscription-based list. For more information and message deadlines, please visit lasierra.edu/osi.

Staff List staff@lasierra.edu

This list is geared toward all La Sierra staff and employees and will be used for workforce-centric communications such as training sessions and staff retirement celebrations, resources for staff, La Sierra Natural Foods market promotions, department furniture giveaways, and other inter-department messages. Messages to this list may also be applicable to the faculty list such as retirements or accounting office messages to employees.

Messages to staff@lasierra.edu will be issued and received in real time.

The staff@lasierra.edu list is administered by the Public Relations/Marketing, Human Resources, Office of the Provost.

Faculty List faculty@lasierra.edu

This list contains all members of the La Sierra faculty, and should be used for workforce-centric communications and academic matters and events such as faculty retirements, doctoral dissertation presentations, colloquiums, messages from the Provost’s office, from faculty governing bodies, La Sierra Natural Foods market promotions, department furniture giveaways, etc., on matters that pertain primarily to faculty. Messages to this list may also be applicable to the staff listMessages to faculty@lasierra.edu will be issued and received in real time.

The faculty@lasierra.edu list is administered by the Office of the Provost.

Community List community@lasierra.edu

  1. As of Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2018, the community@lasierra.edu email address and list officially replaces the campuswide@lasierra.edu address and list. The newly-revised list includes all current staff, faculty, and registered students. The list is administered by the Office of Communication and Integrated Marketing and serves as a means of communication to the entire campus, by way of a daily digest, or 'abridged summary' of general, non-critical email announcements. These announcements may include:
    • Public events organized by university departments such as concerts and musical productions, exhibits, lectures/colloquium, drama productions, Spiritual Life chapels and events of special interest and connection to the campus.
    • Notification of games or significant news pertaining to Golden Eagles Athletics
    • Updates on Enactus team competition results
    • Announcements of interest to the general university community such as university rooms for rent, etc.
    • Notification of births, deaths, funerals, as deemed appropriate for the community and in connection with current or former faculty, staff or students, or their immediate family members
    • Special requests for prayer for current or former faculty, staff or students, or their immediate family members
  2. Email delivery times and process for community@lasierra.edu:
    • The emails from community@lasierra.edu will be delivered by the Google Groups Gmail system early each morning in one digest of messages that were sent to the list the preceding day.
    • For instructions on how to write and post a message to the university email lists, please see the general FAQ section below. The process is the same used in creating messages for the former campuswide@lasierra.edu system.
    • To ensure your message is included in the morning digest for the community, please send your email to community@lasierra.edu no later than 5 p.m. the day prior.
    • Your message will be approved and posted to the community list for dissemination with the digest the following morning, or an administrator will contact you about changes that need to be made to your message. Such changes may include correction of grammatical errors, typos or inaccuracies. If the message does not meet list criteria as noted above, you will be asked to re-create it and send it to the appropriate list.
    • Email messages promoting events that take place the same day will not be accepted for the community list. Please plan ahead!
    • The community@lasierra.edu list will deliver an automated rejection message to the sender when a message is deleted from the list queue by an administrator.

Urgent Community List urgent@lasierra.edu

As of Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2018, matters of urgency will be relayed to current staff, faculty and registered students by way of this email address (NOTE:messages from this address will differ from those coming from the safetyalert email address or the Rave emergency alert system. These messaging systems are used for disasters and other types of emergencies threatening physical safety).

Departments involved in determining messaging issued from urgent@lasierra will include Administration, Security, Public Relations, Physical Plant, and IT. Examples of urgent campus messages include the following:

    • IT maintenance, server outages, hacking attempts, etc.
    • Campus water shutdown or other critical infrastructure matters
    • Important administrative messages pertinent to the university deemed urgent by administration.
    • Important matters from the security office pertinent to the university

Messages to the ‘urgent’ list will be issued and received in real time. Recipients may not opt to disengage from this list.

Campus Messaging FAQ

Your email message should be written exactly the way you want your audience to receive it. This means that your content must be complete and ready to go out—please do not write any additional notes or comments to any list administrators.

Determine your best audience based on the list descriptions above and send to either community@lasierra.edu, staff@lasierra.edu, or . From the list queue, an administrator will either approve and post your message to the list, or contact you with questions or further direction.

If you're still not sure which list to send it to, email pr@lasierra.edu with your questions and someone will help you.

You will have a record of the email in your ‘Sent Mail’ box. You can also visit groups.google.com to view all the emails that have gone to a specific group.

If your email is rejected, most likely a list administrator will have already contacted you with reasons why your message isn’t appropriate for the list. If not, you may send a message with any concerns to pr@lasierra.edu.

No, you may either choose to receive emails sent to this list in real time as they are issued by the sender, or you can opt to ‘hide’ all of these messages and receive no notifications about campus events and activities.

1. Visit groups.google.com and log in using your La Sierra University credentials.

2. Click on the “My groups” link.

3. Use the dropdown to the right of the group to adjust how often you’d like to receive emails.

Below are examples of topics that will not be sent to the community e-mail list:

  • items pertaining primarily to students, or staff and faculty (see list protocols above)
  • items for raising money for individual causes
  • personal items for rent or for sale
  • items for sale by any entity
  • off-campus events unless organized or sponsored by the university or its departments or divisions
  • non-university on-campus events organized and sponsored by third parties renting university space
  • urgent campus notifications (see ‘urgent’ list protocol)
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