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Internal email lists are constructed entirely of active student, staff, and/or faculty email addresses.

Internal ALL List Process and Approvals

ALL Lists

ALL lists are composed of large campus-wide or systemwide groups.

Examples of these lists include, but are not limited to:

  • Systemwide faculty, staff, and students
  • Systemwide faculty, staff
  • Systemwide faculty
  • Systemwide staff
  • Systemwide students
  • Systemwide undergraduate students
  • Systemwide graduate/professional students
  • Twin Cities faculty, staff, and students
  • Twin Cities faculty, staff
  • Twin Cities faculty
  • Twin Cities staff
  • Twin Cities students
  • Twin Cities undergraduate students
  • Twin Cities graduate/professional students

Use of the University's mass internal email system to send messages to ALL lists is governed by the following principles:

  • The email must pertain to a majority of the desired recipients.
  • The message must assist in or support the recipients' ability to conduct their business or education at the University.
  • The information should be deemed critical enough to distribute to the entire audience.

ALL List Process and Approvals

To manage the number of messages sent to ALL lists, and to ensure the messages that are sent are appropriate, a core group of Twin Cities central administrative units have permission to access and send to these lists using Marketing Cloud.

The information below outlines the ALL list access for the Twin Cities campus: the central units that are able to send messages, the audiences they have the ability to send to, and the Key Contact person for mass email for the unit.

Central Twin Cities Administrative Units

Audience: Students, Faculty, Staff (Systemwide and Twin Cities Campus Only)

Office of the President, Office of Equity and Diversity
Key contact: Angie Pesch

Office of the Executive Vice President and Provost, Office of Public Engagement
Key contacts: Holly Vanderhaar, Kate Tyler

Office of the Vice President for Research
Key contact: Erin Dennis

Office of Human Resources
Key contact: Sara Danzinger

Office of Information Technology
Key contact: Kellie Greaves

University Relations, University Services, University Police
Key contacts: Sara Froehlich, Ben Peck

Audience: Students, Faculty (Systemwide and Twin Cities Campus Only)
 

Academic Support Resources
Key contact: Stacey Tidball

Libraries
Key contact: Mark Engebretson

Audience: Students (Systemwide and Twin Cities Campus Only)

Office for Student Affairs
Key contact: Meredith Robertson

Any unit on the Twin Cities campus that is not listed above and that would like to send a mass email to an ALL list must contact the mass email Key Contact person in their parent unit to make a request. Messages that are approved for any ALL list must be sent by a unit with list access.

Duluth

The information below outlines the ALL list access for the Duluth campus: the central units that are able to send messages, the audiences they have the ability to send to, and the Key Contact person for mass email for the unit.

Audience: Faculty, Staff

University Marketing and Public Relations
Key contact: Lynne Williams

Audience: Students
Student Life
Key contact: Laura Haffield

Distribution of mass email to students on the Duluth campus is governed by the UMD Policy and Criteria for Mass Email to UMD Students.

ALL Listservs

The Crookston, Morris, and Rochester campuses use listserv lists for ALL audiences. See the tables below for the audiences, the list email addresses, who may send to the list, and the Key Contact for each list.

Crookston

Audience: Faculty, Staff

UMC-FACSTAFF@lists.umn.edu; any UMC faculty or staff may send to this list. No opt out.
Key contact: Amber Bailey

Audience: Students, Faculty, Staff

UMCOFFICIAL@lists.umn.edu; for official use only. No opt out.
Key contact: Amber Bailey

UMCUNOFFICIAL@lists.umn.edu; any UMC faculty or staff may send to this list. Opt out is available.
Key contact: Amber Bailey

Morris

Audience: Faculty, Staff, Retirees

UMM-ALL-EMPLOYEES@lists.umn.edu; any faculty or staff may send to this list. No opt out.
Key contact: Mark Van Overbeke

Audience: Students

UMMOFFICIAL@lists.umn.edu; moderated list.
Key contact: Mark Van Overbeke

Rochester

Audience: Faculty, Staff

UMRSTAFF@lists.umn.edu; any faculty or staff member.
Key contact: Elise Diesslin

Administrative Email List (AEL)

The Administrative Email List (AEL) is built using over 800 job codes to communicate with University administrators, deans, directors, and department heads on the Twin Cities campus or systemwide. That list can be found in the AEL Job Codes Google Sheet. The AEL is updated daily.

Messages sent to the AEL must be approved and sent by the president's or provost's office. Requests must be made at least 5 working days before you'd like the message to be sent.

Use of the University's mass internal email system to send messages to the AEL is governed by the following principles:

  • The email must pertain to a majority of the desired recipients.
  • The message must assist in or support the recipients' ability to conduct their business or education or at the University.
  • The information should be deemed critical enough to distribute to the entire audience.

Use the mass email request form to request an AEL message sent by:

  • Office of the President
  • Office of Equity and Diversity

Contact Holly Vanderhaar or Kate Tyler to request an AEL message sent by:

  • Office of the Executive Vice President and Provost
  • Office of Public Engagement

If you have questions about the AEL, contact urweb@umn.edu.

Branding

AEL messages should use the approved University mass email header and footer.

Building an Internal Email List

Units may, through electronic communications other than mass email, offer students, faculty, and staff a way to sign up to receive marketing messages from their unit. For example, a unit may include information about a program or an event in Brief or MyU coupled with a link to subscribe to email related to future programs or events. Units must adhere to federal CAN-SPAM law for any messages sent to an opt-in email list.

Using UM Reports through MyU, units can customize a mailing list to best suit the individual needs of each mailing; e.g., active appointments only, specific colleges, full/part time, employee group, appointment term exclusions, etc. If you have questions or need to email a large audience, see “Internal ALL list process and approvals" or contact urweb@umn.edu.

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