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Submission Guidelines

  • Submit by 5 p.m. Friday for publication in the following Wednesday's Faculty Update.
  • Submissions should be UF-sponsored or related and appeal to a broad faculty audience. (Regular departmental news, for example, should be reserved for department outlets.)
  • Content may be published in abbreviated format, with links as appropriate.
  • Faculty Update reserves the right to reject and/or revise submissions.

Events and Announcements:

  • All submissions should include the following: 
    • An informative title
    • 2-3 descriptive sentences. Longer submissions will be shortened.
    • A link to the full announcement content and registration page if appropriate
    • Name and affiliation of person submitting content
    • Optional: Photo or graphics that is legible when reduced to 500-600 pixels. 

Faculty Awards Submissions are featured as full content in the newsletter.

  • All submissions should include the following: 
    • An informative title
    • A description of the award in plain text
    • A photo of the awardee

Additional Considerations for Submitting Content to the Faculty Update:

  • Submissions should be items with information, events, or resources that specifically benefit University of Florida faculty. Advertising is generally not appropriate for the Update.
  • All events or programs in the Update should be UF sponsored or related.
  • Submissions only run once and will not be published in multiple issues of the Update.
  • Submissions that have been widely distributed elsewhere will not be published in the Update.