What is the Daily Dose?

The Daily Dose is a daily e-mail that informs the campus community of activities occurring on that specific day and posts announcements for students and University employees. The content published via the Daily Dose also appears on myRWU. Typically, the Daily Dose is sent via e-mail at the close of business on a weekday.

Who Gets the Daily Dose? 

The Daily Dose e-mail is sent to the all-university and all-student e-mail lists, which include all employees and graduate and undergraduate students (except law students) with Roger Williams e-mail accounts. Law students do not receive the Daily Dose.

Submitting an Event or Announcement to the Daily Dose

Send submissions to dailydose@rwu.edu. The deadline for submissions is noon of the day the announcement is intended to go out. For example, complete information received by noon will be included in that day’s e-mail—usually sent at close of business—unless otherwise requested. For an announcement to be considered “complete,” it must include the name, title, organization and contact information of the person submitting the notice; without this, Public Affairs cannot accept the submission. Please read the specific guidelines and procedures for events and announcements below.

Events Submission Guidelines

If you are holding an event on campus with broad appeal, notify Public Affairs as soon as you have all of the pertinent information. 
 
Please Note: the Daily Dose is NOT for events that are:

• only open to a small portion of campus community 
• off campus—unless sponsored by the University

Submissions must include the event date, time, specific location, title, name of presenter, whether it is open to the public, and other key information as needed. Submissions lacking complete information will be sent back to the submitter for clarification and may delay its appearance in the Daily Dose.

As soon as Public Affairs receives complete information on an event, it will be added to the myRWU Events Calendar. Events listings will remain on the calendar indefinitely, but will only appear in the Daily Dose on the day of the event.

Please note that events are color coded for easy reading in the myRWU calendar and the Daily Dose:

Red—Entertainment
Blue—Athletics
Black—Academic/Educational
Orange—Law School
Green—General University Information

Announcement Submission Guidelines

Announcements with broad appeal can be submitted to Public Affairs at anytime. Unless the submission requests a specific date for inclusion, the announcement will run in the next available Daily Dose. 

Please Note: the Daily Dose is NOT for announcements that are:

• applicable only to a small portion of campus community
• advertising future events—unless deemed of high importance by Public Affairs

Submissions must include all pertinent information. If announcement submission is determined to be vague or confusing by Daily Dose editors, it will be held until clarification can be obtained. All submissions will be edited for style and grammar to ensure consistency and clarity.

Announcements will appear only once in the Daily Dose and be posted on myRWU for no longer than one week unless deemed of high importance.

During the Summer 

Because the number of events and announcements diminish significantly during the summer, the Office of Public Affairs reduces publication of the Daily Dose to once per week.

The Daily Dose: Weekly Edition is sent to all faculty and staff members, but only to students who manually opt-in. Students who wish to receive the summer edition should e-mail dailydose@rwu.edu with a subject line of "Daily Dose Opt-In."

The Daily Dose: Weekly Edition will be distributed on Friday afternoons and will contain events and announcements for Saturday through the following Friday. Deadline for all submissions is 10 a.m. on Friday mornings.