{"id":40,"date":"2022-12-15T09:48:53","date_gmt":"2022-12-15T14:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friarwire.providence.edu\/morning-mail\/?page_id=40"},"modified":"2026-04-17T10:59:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T14:59:27","slug":"morning-mail-guidelines","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/friarwire.providence.edu\/morning-mail\/morning-mail-guidelines\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Mail Guidelines"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u200b<strong>What is&nbsp;<em>Morning Mail?<\/em><\/strong> A daily email newsletter sent to all PC undergraduate students. The Morning Mail is the official method of communication for the student class-wide mailing lists. Stand-alone emails are not released to the student class mailing lists unless the Morning Mail is on publication hiatus <em>(see schedule below)<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <em>Morning Mail<\/em> email contains a headline&nbsp;message about each announcement, with an online link to read the full details.\u200b The content from the&nbsp;<em>Morning Mail<\/em>&nbsp;is also available online via&nbsp;the<em>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/friarwire.providence.edu\/morning-mail\/\">Morning Mail<\/a><\/em> website (Chrome &amp; Safari are the preferred browsers for viewing)\u200b.\u200b\u200b <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How to Submit: <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Students, faculty, and staff can all submit items to the <em>Morning Mail.<\/em><strong><em>&nbsp;<\/em>In order to submit, fill out the <a href=\"https:\/\/providence.tfaforms.net\/forms\/view\/668\">Providence College Morning Mail submission form<\/a>. <\/strong>All submissions are reviewed by the student email list moderator. Once approved by the moderator, submissions are combined into one email, and sent out to students. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you are including a flyer image in your email, <strong><em>you must <\/em><\/strong><em><span><b>include a full textual description of the event in the &#8220;<\/b><\/span><strong>Announcement Details&#8221; form field, and a description of the flyer in the &#8220;Image Description&#8221; field<\/strong><\/em>. This is to ensure that your message is readable by screen readers (devices used by people with visual impairments to read the content of web page). Also, students can only see flyers after clicking &#8220;read more&#8221; within the Morning Mail email or going directly to the Morning Mail website. The more you include in your Announcement Details, the better informed students will be!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please note that <strong>we cannot accommodate&nbsp;&#8220;scheduling&#8221; of messages<\/strong> (i.e. &#8211; you submit on Monday, but don&#8217;t want it to go out until Friday). &nbsp;Once your message has been approved by the moderator, it will be placed in the&nbsp;<strong>next<\/strong>&nbsp;<em>Morning Mail&nbsp;<\/em>edition. &nbsp;Please do not submit an email until you are ready for it to be distributed. &nbsp;See below for the distribution \u200bschedule.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Publication Schedule:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The&nbsp;<em>Morning Mail<\/em>&nbsp;is issued on weekdays only.&nbsp;Submissions must be received by the moderator no later than 4PM to be included in the next day&#8217;s announcements.\u200b&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>\u200bThe<em>&nbsp;Morning Mail<\/em>&nbsp;is issued only when classes are in session during the fall and spring semesters.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Submissions received after 4 p.m. on Thursday will not go out until Monday morning.&nbsp;The deadline for inclusion in Monday&#8217;s&nbsp;<em>Morning Mail<\/em>&nbsp;is 4 p.m.&nbsp;on Sunday. Please plan your announcements accordingly.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>When the <em>Morning Mail <\/em>is on publication hiatus during breaks and in the summer, community members should follow the instructions on the <a href=\"https:\/\/ihelp.providence.edu\/email\/campus-wide-emails\/\">campus-wide email page<\/a> to send campus-wide messages.<br> <table class=\"ms-rteTable-default\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse;width: 766px\" cellspacing=\"0\"> <tbody> <tr class=\"ms-rteTableHeaderRow-default\"> <th class=\"ms-rteTableHeaderEvenCol-default\" style=\"width: 383px\" colspan=\"1\" rowspan=\"1\"> <p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10px;line-height: 1.6;text-align: center\"><strong>\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200bDesired Publish Date\u200b<\/strong><\/p> <\/th> <th class=\"ms-rteTableHeaderOddCol-default\" style=\"width: 382px\" colspan=\"1\" rowspan=\"1\"> <p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10px;line-height: 1.6;text-align: center\">\u200b<strong>Latest Possible Submission<\/strong><\/p> <\/th> <\/tr> <tr class=\"ms-rteTableOddRow-default\"> <td class=\"ms-rteTableEvenCol-default\" style=\"width: 383px;text-align: center\">\u200bMonday<\/td> <td class=\"ms-rteTableOddCol-default\" style=\"width: 382px;text-align: center\">4 p.m. on Sunday<\/td> <\/tr> <tr class=\"ms-rteTableEvenRow-default\"> <td class=\"ms-rteTableEvenCol-default\" style=\"width: 383px;text-align: center\">\u200bTuesday<\/td> <td class=\"ms-rteTableOddCol-default\" style=\"width: 382px;text-align: center\">4 p.m. on Monday<\/td> <\/tr> <tr class=\"ms-rteTableOddRow-default\"> <td class=\"ms-rteTableEvenCol-default\" style=\"width: 383px;text-align: center\">\u200bWednesday<\/td> <td class=\"ms-rteTableOddCol-default\" style=\"width: 382px;text-align: center\">4 p.m. on Tuesday<\/td> <\/tr> <tr class=\"ms-rteTableEvenRow-default\"> <td class=\"ms-rteTableEvenCol-default\" style=\"width: 383px;text-align: center\">\u200bThursday<\/td> <td class=\"ms-rteTableOddCol-default\" style=\"width: 382px;text-align: center\">4 p.m. on Wednesday<\/td> <\/tr> <tr class=\"ms-rteTableOddRow-default\"> <td class=\"ms-rteTableEvenCol-default\" style=\"width: 383px;text-align: center\">\u200bFriday<\/td> <td class=\"ms-rteTableOddCol-default\" style=\"width: 382px;text-align: center\">4 p.m. on Thursday<\/td> <\/tr> <\/tbody> <\/table> <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Additional Submission Guidelines:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>News &amp; Announcements will be listed in the order in which they are received.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Events will be listed in chronological order.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Please spell-check and grammar-check before submitting &#8211; information will be&nbsp;published&nbsp;as received.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>No more than 2 emails per&nbsp;e\u200bvent will be approved by the moderator. Please think through your promotion timing before submitting an announcement.&nbsp;\u200b<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The format of the Morning Mail does not accommodate advanced &#8220;newsletter&#8221; type image and text formatting.&nbsp; Images and text will be included as possible, but we cannot match formatting created through newsletter programs.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Surveys submitted to the Morning Mail by student clubs\/organizations must first be reviewed and approved by the club\/org&#8217;s advisor or other administrator. Surveys submitted on behalf of individual students or as part of class projects are not permitted in the Morning Mail. Notifications about campus-wide surveys administered by Institutional Assessment and IRB approved research surveys from faculty members are permitted.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Morning Mail does not accept promotions from off-campus organizations unless they are partnering with a campus department on a campus approved event. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Per the direction of the Registrar&#8217;s Office, requests to advertise academic course offerings are not permitted in the Morning Mail.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Morning Mail cannot be used for class election campaign announcements by individual candidates or to promote class projects.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Morning Mail and the moderated st\u200budent email lists&nbsp;are not meant to be a means for communicating urgent information. Administrators with a need to send urgent messages to the campus community have been identified by the College and given the appropriate administrative access to do so.\u200b<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Questions or comments about Morning Mail&nbsp;can be sent to&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:studentlife@providence.edu\">studentlife@providence.edu\u200b<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bWhat is&nbsp;Morning Mail? A daily email newsletter sent to all PC undergraduate students. The Morning Mail is the official method of communication for the student class-wide mailing lists. Stand-alone emails are not released to the student class mailing lists unless the Morning Mail is on publication hiatus (see schedule below). 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