{"id":127229,"date":"2025-08-21T08:00:42","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T12:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/?p=127229"},"modified":"2025-08-18T16:52:31","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T20:52:31","slug":"submit-by-aug-29-news-for-owu-families-september-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/submit-by-aug-29-news-for-owu-families-september-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"Submit by Aug. 29 &#8211; News for OWU Families September Issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are accepting submissions for the <strong>September<\/strong>\u00a0edition of\u00a0<strong>News for OWU Families<\/strong>. Please submit news for parents and families using this<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newsforowufamilies\/new-at-owu-submissions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newsforowufamilies\/new-at-owu-submissions\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1755636550619000&amp;usg=AOvVaw13H0IjAY6RWWPHWsHLqwKC\">\u00a0News for OWU Families form<\/a>\u00a0by\u00a0the deadline,\u00a0<strong>noon Friday, Aug. 29.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For the September digest, please consider submitting information to help students and families get off to a great start \u2013 reminders about annual business items, academic deadlines and information, engagement and belonging opportunities, etc.<\/p>\n<p>The average\u00a0<strong><em>open rate<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0of News for OWU Families for the spring 2025 semester was a whopping<strong>\u00a0<em>66%<\/em><\/strong>! Families are reading it!<\/p>\n<p>Tips: 1) eliminate OWU jargon, abbreviations, or acronyms from your emails; 2) use \u2018family\u2019 or \u2018parents and families\u2019; 3) consider your voice and tone \u2013 direct your message to\u00a0<em>families\u00a0<\/em>(not students).<\/p>\n<p>Emails will typically be sent on the first Wednesday of every month. Submissions will be due the Friday before each email release. This digest aims to keep parents and families informed, engaged, and regularly supplied with resources. Please plan to review with your team every month what information from your area is of value to parents and families. We encourage you to make monthly calendar reminders to create submissions and spread the word about this new communication tool to engage our OWU families.<\/p>\n<p>OWU Sponsoring Organization\/Office: News for OWU Families<br \/>\nContact: Nancy Rutkowski at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:nbrutkow@owu.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">nbrutkow@owu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are accepting submissions for the September\u00a0edition of\u00a0News for OWU Families. Please submit news for parents and families using this\u00a0News for OWU Families form\u00a0by\u00a0the deadline,\u00a0noon Friday, Aug. 29. For the September digest, please consider submitting information to help students and families get off to a great start \u2013 reminders about annual business items, academic deadlines [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2057,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facultystaff-news-events"],"blocksy_meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2057"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127229"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127230,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127229\/revisions\/127230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}