Overwhelmed email inboxes may soon see relief

November 11, 2009
By Laurel Bollinger
Public Affairs Reporter

This week your email inbox may have been flooded with emails about classes on foreign languages, alternative spring break, squash, spring theatre classes and many other emails alerting you to different events or opportunities on campus.

Students fed up with the emails created a Facebook group called “Stop the Spam’ addressing the high volume emails one.

Director of Educational Technology Tulio Llosa said planning is underway to make these announcements available only on the “Campus Announcements” portlet on the main page of the my.UIS portal.  “One glitch is that currently many people have access to the official UIS distribution lists, and they are being used to relay information to students, because students do not receive emails sent to UIS Campus Announcements,” Llosa said.

Informational emails concerning classes, workshops, bake sales, and speakers will be sent only to Campus Announcements on the portal.  Only emergency critical emails would be sent to the official employee and student email lists by a small number of people.

“So we are at this time assessing how many and which people need access to which campus distribution lists,” Llosa said.  “We are in the discussion and planning stages of this project, and together we will determine the most effective mode of delivery of information to the various constituents of the UIS campus community.”

Llosa did not specify when this change will take place.