[Campus-morris-staff] last year's announcement

[Jim Hall]

I wonder if we could also post an item on the Higbies digital display?
There's also a similar display in the library, and another in lower level
of Science. I think they are independently controlled, so you could just
have something show up in Science if you prefer that. This would be a good
way to get the word out.

It's just an image, and I think Melissa Weber in U Relations could give us
the image size we need to use. Someone could create a poster-like image and
they could have it show up on the  display.

On Monday, August 25, 2014, Elena Machkasova <elenam at morris.umn.edu> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I found this announcement in our last year's folder. We need to modify it
> slightly and possibly customize it to different groups a bit, but that's
> something to start working from. I will find last year's sign-up form as
> well.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Elena
>
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