Tech Times consists of two daily electronic newsletters, one for faculty/staff and one for students. Tech Times contains news, announcements and other items of campus-wide interest.

The newsletters are user-fueled. Faculty, staff and students of TTU may submit content according to these guidelines.

Deadlines

Tech Times is distributed on morning weekdays as news items warrant. If there are no announcements on a particular day, no newsletter is distributed that day. Here are the deadlines for submitting content:

  • 3 p.m. central time for distribution on the next weekday, except for Monday’s edition.
  • Noon Friday for Monday’s edition.
  • You may submit an item for distribution several days in advance.

Tech Times is not sent on university holidays unless special circumstances permit.

What's Appropriate for Tech Times

Each submission is reviewed for content and either approved or deleted. Submitters should write concise copy and provide a link or telephone number for more information.

Make sure your submission includes all relevant information, is grammatically correct, is timely, and is appropriate for the TTU audience or it may not be included in the distribution.

Items permitted in Tech Times include:

  • Faculty/Staff edition: College and departmental news, events, awards, achievements, grants and other announcements.
  • Student edition: College and departmental news and events, official student organization news and events, awards and achievements, community service events coordinated by the University Service Center, fundraisers for student organizations benefiting registered non-profits, and other announcements.
  • News and information regularly produced by the TTU Office of Communications & Marketing.
  • Death notices about current and former staff and faculty and current students. Notices must be factual and brief. You may provide a link to more information or to a full obituary of a newspaper, funeral home or other Web page.

    Submitting an item to Tech Times

    Submitting information to Tech Times is easy. Follow these steps:

    • Click on “Submit an Announcement for Tech Times.”
    • Complete the fields on the submission form.
    • Remember: Keep the text short and easy to read. Provide links, e-mail addresess and phone numbers for more information. Please use paragraph format. The Tech Times system will automatically force your submission into a paragraph, so submissions with bulleted lists and multiple paragraphs will become difficult to read.

    Here's an example to get you started:

    The next meeting of the YOUR ORGANIZATION will be held at TIME, DATE and PLACE. The program will be a discussion of DESCRIPTION HERE. Speakers for the event include NAMES HERE. For more information, CONTACT INFORMATION, TELEPHONE NUMBER OR E-MAIL HERE.

    NOTE: A separate box is provided for the url. Links should be provided in this format: http://www.tntech.edu/techtimes/home/. Be sure to include the "http://" at the beginning of your url.

    Be sure to take advantage of the Campus Calendar, too. The calendar program, located at http://www.tntech.edu/calendar, features 42 separate calendars. It allows anyone with web access — both on campus and off — to submit an event.

    If you have questions about submitting content, please contact Valeri Oliver, (931) 372-6328.

    Submit an Item to Tech Times

    Apply Now