Pre-Meeting Work

Please complete the pre-meeting work by April 30, 2018.

1. Update your center profile.

If you do not yet have a Center Profile, use the submission form to create one. If you need help accessing your existing profile or completing a new one, email John McDaris in the SERC office and he can assist you.

2. Upload information about your communication strategies

Use the form below to upload either a 1-page communication document that your center uses to talk about its work or a short essay about how your center communicates its mission and vision to stakeholders, partners, and funders. These materials will be used in the structure of the working meeting and become part of a public collection on the NSEC website.

Submit Communication Strategies Information

Participant Name:

Center/Institution/Organization:

Participant Email:

Option 1: Communication Document

Use the link below to upload a short communication document that your center uses to talk about its work. This should be something like a "1-pager" rather than an extended report.

Click here to choose a file to upload.

All uploaded files are public unless you are in a private workspace

Title: A descriptive, human readable title.

e.g. 'Student Handout for Sauerkraut Assignment'

Select the file: Make sure it has an appropriate suffix (e.g. .doc) or specify the type in the Optional Fields below

Description: A very brief description of the file.

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File Type:

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File Name:

e.g. 'student_handout'
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Authorship/Reuse

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I am the author (copyright holder) of the contents of this file and people are allowed to reuse it for non-commercial purposes as long as they give me attribution as described by this creative commons license.
Or

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Provenance/Acknowledgements

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You can find a substitute that isn't encumbered by copyright.
You can create a substitute yourself. Remember, ideas can't be copyrighted, only particular expressions of those ideas. Of course you'll want to give credit the original author.

The Stanford Copyright and Fair Use Center has more good information about copyright as it applies to academic settings.

Option 2: Essay

Use the space below to submit a short essay about strategies your center uses to communicate its mission and vision to its various stakeholders, partners, and funders. The essay can be as long as you like (the box will accept any amount of text) but please ensure you discuss who your main audiences are and what the messages you are working to covey to those audiences.

Note: If you leave this page without clicking the SUBMIT button, anything you have entered into the text box will be lost. You may wish to compose your essay in a word processor and paste it into the box when you are ready to submit.

Essay Title

Essay Text

Topics

Does your "1-pager" or essay speak specifically to one or more of these topics for the working meeting?

using communication to gain support for center programming
using communication to increase visibility of centers' importance on campus
using communication to support participation of people from groups historically under-represented in STEM
using communication to build networks of partner entities both inside and outside the institution
using communication strategies to impact policy decisions

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