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Mark This Information High Priority!


Does anyone ever use the ‘low priority’ tab on their email? And when is it appropriate to use it? How do you determine if the email qualifies as low priority? Are the contents of the email considered low priority to the sender or to the receiver?  Not since spending a full day mulling over why no one had created jargonese for ‘www’ have I worried about something so much.

I just sent a link to my office colleagues so they could read an article about my son’s record release party in New York (Mercury Lounge, October 12, band name Extra Arms.)  Of all the emails I’ll send today, this one, to me, is probably the highest of high priorities. But I’m a realist. I suspect that all the recipients considered it, in the scheme of their busy work day, low priority. So how should I mark it?  I have a headache just thinking about it.

I do know something that is high priority to all of us---filling out the final exam survey by this Friday. On Monday we will close down the survey and I’ll start running three or four million reports to start putting the final exam schedule and room assignments together. I hope to accomplish this before final exam week.  Since I also have to put together all the spring classroom assignments before the first day of spring classes and the intersession assignments before intersession starts, you can see how incredibly put upon and important I am. It boggles the mind.

Although I have never even attempted to do it, I’ve been told that filling out the final exam request survey is quick and easy. That’s a relief. You can find the Final Exam Request form on the Faculty Services menu, in Banner Self Service, under (and who would have thought of this on their own) “Schedule a Final Exam”.

Please take care of this right now and we can all go back to mulling over the ‘low priority’ email tab.

Deborah Benjamin
Registration and Records
09/22/2011