SNR Employee Handbook

Communication - Email (Faculty and Staff)

Contact(s)

  • Operations Coordinator - Christine Steggs, csteggs1@unl.edu, 908 South HARH EC 0989, Phone: 402-472-8120

All UNL Faculty and Staff are required to use the university's email system for their business-related email. Personal email accounts used for university business are subject to open records requests.

SNR uses Mailman listserv software for communicating with faculty, staff, and graduate students. Mailman is outside Outlook, so users must have the correct email address to use it.

SNR Email Lists :

  • snrfaculty@lists.unl.edu (SNR faculty, postdocs, emeritus faculty, and courtesy faculty whose academic home is SNR)
  • snrstaff@lists.unl.edu (SNR regular and temporary staff)
  • snr_all_employees@lists.unl.edu (SNR faculty and staff, NRBC, custodial staff, and visitors officed in Hardin Hall)
  • snr_center_directors@lists.unl.edu (directors of the centers within SNR)
  • snr_core_acss@lists.unl.edu (SNR faculty in the Applied Climate Science and Spatial Science program area; excludes emeritus faculty)
  • snr_core_apec@lists.unl.edu (SNR Faculty in the Applied Ecology program area; excludes emeritus faculty)
  • snr_core_envs@lists.unl.edu (SNR Faculty in the Environmental Science program area; excludes emeritus faculty)
  • snr_extended_acss@lists.unl.edu (SNR staff and graduate students in the Applied Climate and Spatial Science program are)
  • snr_extended_apec@lists.unl.edu (SNR staff and graduate students in the Applied Ecology program area)
  • snr_extended_envs@lists.unl.edu (SNR staff and graduate students in the Environmental Science program area)
  • snr_extension@lists.unl.edu (SNR faculty with extension appointments and staff whose duties include extension-related activities)
  • snr_fac@lists.unl.edu (SNR Faculty Advisory Committee members)
  • snr_gradcommittee@lists.unl.edu (SNR Graduate Committee members)
  • snr_graduate_students@lists.unl.edu (Graduate Students admitted into the Natural Resources MS or PhD degree program)
  • snr_managers@lists.unl.edu (SNR staff whose appointment includes services to all of SNR)
  • snr_mas_graduate_students@lists.unl.edu (graduate Students admitted into the Master of Applied Science program and have declared a specialization administered by SNR)
  • snr_nrucc@lists.unl.edu (members of the SNR Undergraduate Curriculum Committee)
  • snr_p-t_committee@lists.unl.edu (SNR Promotion and Tenure committee members)
  • snr_postdocs@lists.unl.edu (SNR postdocs)
  • snr_pre-tenure_faculty@lists.unl.edu (all SNR faculty who have not yet been awarded tenure)
  • snr_sapdc@lists.unl.edu (SNR Staff Advisory and Professional Development Committee members)
  • snr_sfc@lists.unl.edu (members of SNR’s Safety & Facilities Committee)
  • snremeritusfaculty@lists.unl.edu (SNR’s emeritus faculty)
  • snrteachingpersonnel@lists.unl.edu (SNR faculty and staff who teach)

Hints for Using the SNR Group Lists:

  • Email of SNR faculty, staff, and graduate students are authorized to post to any SNR email group.
  • If you want to email all employees and graduate students use two lists: snr_all_employees@lists.unl.edu and snr_graduate_students@lists.unl.edu (Outlook will remove any duplicates.)
  • If information needs to be addressed to one specific floor in Hardin Hall use the group list snr_all_employees@lists.unl.edu AND indicate at the start of the subject line that the message is for a certain floor.

Signature Block

Having a complete signature block at the end of emails is recommended. This will allow your email recipients to know you are a university employee and offer them various ways to contact you.

It is recommended you include your full name, job title/rank, department name, street address, room number/building name, city/state/9-digit zip code and USA, phone number, email, and department or center website.

To generate a signature block:

  • Open Office and and Outlook App. Go to:https://ucomm.unl.edu/email-signature-generator. Scroll down and type in your name, title, Campus, Department, City/State/Zip, phone. Append a New Field twice to add your email address and center or department website. Click "copy your signature" and then in Office, open Outlook app, select File > Settings > Account > Signature > +Add Signature, and past it into the signature field.
  • To generate a signature block that is easy for recipients to read, open Office and select Outlook app, go to File > Settings > Account > Signatures > +Add Signature. Once a signature is created, you may edit it at any time.