W&M Digest
The W&M Digest provides an avenue of communication for faculty and staff at William & Mary and includes news, events and announcements. The digest email is distributed Monday - Friday, between 8:30 and 9:00 AM as a moderated and digested list. This means all announcements are approved by a moderator and combined into one email message that is sent out daily.
To ensure an announcement will appear in the W&M Digest on a specific day, it should be posted via the W&M Digest submission form no later than 8:30 AM of the desired day.
Posting of announcements to the W&M Digest is limited to William & Mary faculty and staff and should be university-related/sponsored.
Announcements that do not follow the guidelines below will not appear in the W&M Digest.
- Use concise language in the Subject field but be descriptive.
- Keep messages as short as possible. Detailed information related to an announcement should be posted on a web page and the related URL for more information included in the digest announcement.
- Topics in the digest generally include:
- announcements from IT, HR, Parking and other College offices
- meeting notes and agendas
- promotions of events (e.g., workshops, seminars and brownbags)
W&M Events is an official and effective way to promote an event! We recommend that digest messages include a link to the event details in W&M Events. - new instructional resources
- general campus service announcements (parking, construction and utilities)
- other university-related announcements
- Topics such as the following are not acceptable for the digest:
- confidential information (e.g., Social Security Numbers)
- advertising items for sale or rent (I'm selling . . .)
- inquiries about items for sale or places for rent (I'm looking for . . .)
- offers to transfer state assets from one department to another without the permission of Procurement
- other similar "classified ad"-type posting
- commercial or partisan political announcements
- announcements that are not W&M-related/sponsored