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“Dreaming & Doing” | UM-Flint Brand Update • March 2010

If February was a month for brainstorming, strategic creative planning, and trial-and-error, March was a month for execution and bringing concepts to life.

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UM-Flint Brand, Marketing, and Communication Update | February 2010

New Projects, New Audiences, New Ideas One of the best things about marketing and communication is that you never know exactly where the creative process will lead or what other useful discoveries will be made along the way. umflint.edu/growing We reported on one such “eureka” moment last month while developing this year’s “At a Glance” […]

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Commencement Planning

The University of Michigan-Flint Commencement Ceremony is only two months away.  According to the Registrar’s Office, over 900 students are eligible to participate in the commencement exercises in May.  That number could mean our largest commencement on record!  The UM-Flint Commencement Ceremony will take place on Sunday, May 2 at 2:30 p.m.  A commencement speaker […]

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Snow Days Are Never an Easy Call

Snow days.  Some people love them, others, not so much. As the bearer of good or bad news depending on your point of view, I have a unique insight into the sometimes difficult decision-making that takes place in canceling classes and activities.  So while some may see this as an easy call, it just isn’t. […]

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UM-Flint Brand, Marketing, and Communication Update | January 2010

“UM-Flint is the fastest-growing public university in the state!” While researching ways to better tell UM-Flint’s story through quick facts and revealing stats in an improved version of the annual “At a Glance” brochure, University Relations (UR) discovered and verified that we are indeed the fastest growing public institution of higher learning in the state […]

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Greetings!

Hello and welcome to the new blog for UM-Flint’s Office of University Relations (UR)! Though we’re just getting warmed up, our entire staff looks forward to starting conversations, sharing ideas, and picking brains about all aspects of higher education branding and marketing with fellow campus communicators, as well as with colleagues around the world. Here’s […]

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