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Fewer newsletters, more news
Readers may have noticed that there
have been fewer issues of
The Communicator this past year. One reason for this is that the editor
of The Communicator, Ivan Muzychka, recently launched MUN Newsline,
a new e-mail information and employee communications service that has
been taking time (and news!) away from the bi-monthly employee newsletter.
"Communications with our faculty and staff have increased considerably
over the last year or so," Mr. Muzychka noted. "We have been
studying our employee communications program for some time now. We now
have a mixed media approach to communicating with faculty and staff. We've
added special buttons on the Memorial Web page, we created MUN Newsline,
a very popular e-mail message service, and are exploring the idea of a
daily news Web site."
University Relations is undertaking an organizational review aimed at
finding the best way to handle the many functions it performs and one
of the areas given careful scrutiny was The Communicator. "We
are hearing that many employees want us to keep the newsletter, even if
we're also communicating with them in other ways," Mr. Muzychka said.
"Some pensioners and other employees do not have access to e-mail
so that is also something that we must consider."
Gerard McDonald, the new director of Human Resources, has also indicated
that he would like to see the publication continue and, in collaboration
with University Relations, would like to systematically review the effectiveness
of employee publications and conduct an overall evaluation of the employee
communications program. "For the short term, we are going to continue
publishing The Communicator every two months," Mr. McDonald
said. "However, we will also find new ways to keep faculty and staff
informed about the goings on within their university work community, and
in relation to human resources programs and activities in general."
The next issue of The Communicator will contain stories on the
university's distinguished teachers and researchers and exemplary employees.
Comments or suggestions regarding The Communicator or employee
communications generally should be directed to univrel@mun.ca
or call 737-8665.