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Hello everyone,

I wanted to bring a question to the community to see how other unions are managing a situation we’re working through.

We are ENG funded with a $0 budget and, for the first time this year, added a small student fee that helps cover some operational costs. That said, we are still largely revenue dependent. Our portfolio includes…

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Hello,

The University Scheduling Office is exploring a camp management software for all camps hosted on campus. We’ve already demoed a few products. Does anyone have suggestions on which platform is the best? They all seem to have the same features with slightly different configurations.

Great news—this series is open to all ACUI members, even if you aren’t currently pursuing certification! It’s a fantastic professional development opportunity for mid-level professionals and others, offering the chance to learn directly from experts across college unions, housing, and recreation.

The 2025 ACUHO-I/ACUI/NIRSA Certification…

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Looking for institutions where the programming and operations department are housed together and have one Director. Please email me your org. chart at wlparris@uncg.edu. Thanks in advance.

Michigan, Virginia Tech, Rutgers-New Brunswick, others use Crowdfind, and it’s pretty cool and easy. Just need to let students know it’s out there. And we’d love to have them as a corporate partner!

https://rutgers.v2.crowdfind.com/public/#/busch/items

Hello Dylan,

Thanks for bringing this up—Lost & Found really is one of those “unsung hero” services that deserves more visibility!

At UNT, we’ve been working on a few engagement strategies:

• Tabling during orientation and flash sessions to introduce incoming students to Union services, including Lost & Found.
• Partnering with our Marketing team to…

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Hello all. The Univ. of WA Husky Union Building (HUB) is looking for ways to increase promotion of our campus lost and found service to the UW community. I am curious what ways other Student Unions promote their lost and found in hopes that we can increase engagement with our lost and found service. We are looking for things like…

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I orginally posted on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/timpmoore/) inspired by Larry Moneta and then decide to repost on ACUI Forum:

I’m watching the changes in higher education with great trepidation. Across the country, I see colleagues in student affairs facing layoffs, restructuring, and uncertainty—all while continuing to show up for…

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Hi Jenna!

Similar to Kerry, we also have the Building Managers run the Setup Worksheets when they come on shift. We also switched over to Mazevo a couple years ago (strongly recommend and basically just an updated version of EMS) and they added my request to put a link to diagrams in the setup worksheets (yay!). Before when we had EMS though,…

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Hi Jenna!
Is the report something the building managers can run themselves daily? We have a much smaller scale of events between our buildings, but our Building Managers run the report for the next day as a closing task each night, which includes the setup details and notes for each reservation that day. Then, each shift, the students are…

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Hi all! My name is Jenna Small and I’m the Assistant Director of Campus Operations at Merrimack College. I attended Merrimack for my undergrad, worked as a Building Manager, and have now been in this professional position for about a year and a half. I’m curious to see how other institutions are managing their student Building…

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Morning. The Wheelock Student Center at the University of Puget Sound proudly hosts KUPS, 90.1FM – The Sound in our building. In 2009, KUPS won a MTVu Woodie Award for Best College Radio Station. It is a fantastic example of college radio.

Sarah

While our radio station is not in our Campus Center, we do oversee the space it is in and are heavily involved in the station’s operations. https://www.wrur.org/about

Hi Joe,

Awesome thank you for letting me know. I will try and post there right now. Thanks!

Good afternoon,

I serve as the leader for the Emergency Management Community. Feel free to post in that community or I can share a message on your behalf. – Joe

Hello everyone,

My name is Alex Pitner and I am the Associate Director of Student Organizations and Leadership at Northern Illinois University. My area is looking to benchmark what security measures other institutions are implementing for their student organization led events. To complete the benchmark, we have a survey for people to help…

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Thanks Cory and Jonathan … I’ll be checking in with you in the near future as to how they are operated, funded, and if they are part of any marketing for the student union itself.

Anyone else out there that knows of Union-housed student radio give me a holler!

Thanks again!

At Georgia Tech, we proudly host WREK 91.1, https://www.wrek.org/, in the John Lewis Student Center.

We do! Here is a little information about our station.

RAPID CITY, SD (May 8, 2025) – For decades, KTEQ 91.3 FM, South Dakota Mines campus station, like other college radios, has been a platform for the underground music scene, launching the careers of many unknown acts and bringing a new sound to the communities they served.

The power of college…

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I’m reaching out to gather more information about campus grilling policies. Specifically, I’d like to understand what procedures and guidelines are in place for hosting events that involve grilling on your campus, and whether there are any designated areas, equipment requirements, or approval processes we need to follow.

Additionally, how your…

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Extend the memories of the new student orientation experience with ACUI Promos. Send your students along their journey with a promotional product that connects them to your campus community. Ordering through ACUI Promos not only provides you with top-shelf design and ordering assistance but also supports ACUI!

Let us know if it is!

https://www.aacu.org/liberaleducation/articles/college-radio-is-not-dead

I’m working with our Student Accessibility Services office for the month of October. We would like to highlight and bring awareness about our spaces and their services. For example, noting spaces and their sensory areas (game room vs. study rooms), egress and furniture selection, programming, etc. I was thinking this would be…

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Hello,

I was going through the threads and just saw this! This is something we would be interested in seeing as well. We use both 7 Point Ops and Social Tables. Having one software would be great!

Thank you,

Depending on your budget Max-R? makes an nearly indestructible lectern on wheels.? It it made from recycled milk jugs,? I ordered one at my previous institution that was a near exact color match to our school colors and included our logo.? If you are interested in purchasing one lectern to last 20+ years I would highly…

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Brian that specificity is not limited to your previous employer – I share it and thank you for offering that clarification! I wish more people could adopt that habit.

I was going to chime in to suggest that Stageright is our go-to for podiums, but we worked with a local vendor for our lecterns. 🙂

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Hi Kelly,?

Before you start looking for suggestions I would first figure out a few details. First, are you looking for lectern that you stand at, or are you looking for a podium that you stand on. Sorry if this feels nit-picky, but my previous employer had a theater background and was very specific about this, and I picked up the habit along…

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Hello Kelly, At SDSU Associated Students I am also looking to replace our event space podium/lecterns.  We have both the lucite and nice wood laminate currently.  The lucite is just too much to maintain with student staff hauling and lifting, it holds up poorly.  The existing wood laminate from Marshall Furniture is attractive but heavy and… Read more

Hey everyone!

We are looking to purchase some new heavy duty podiums that are sturdy enough to be lifted on and off stage and withhold a lot of moving around. Do any of you have vendors you have used in the past that provide a high quality product that can be used in our union’s event space? We don’t want anything lucite but rather wooden…

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Now this would be really amazing because we use 7Point across our Student Centers already.

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Original Message:
Sent: 3/24/2025 9:08:00 AM
From: Antonio Talamo
Subject: RE: Diagramming software – a NEW option from 7PointOps??

Hi Allison – I agree with Fil, we would love to have something like this as well as…

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Hi Kourtney,?

We are using Humanity and have been for about 5 years now. Their customer service is fantastic and they’ll help you set everything you need up. IT is very simple and students love it. They clock in and out from their phones, receive updates and can easily trade or drop shifts. What’s nice about it is that you can…

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Hi Allison – I agree with Fil, we would love to have something like this as well as a feature!?

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Antonio Talamo
Assistant Director – Student Center & Commuter Life
Montclair State University
Upper Montclair NJ
(973) 655-3377
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Hi all,?

We use Teams Shifts as well and there is a way for the students to input their availability into the app under the settings.? It can be a little wonky but it has been helpful when trying to find coverage.?

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Kaitlyn Dyleski
Associate Director, Student Development & Operations
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Hi Allison – I would definitely be interested, also as a 7Ops user for almost 10 years and agree with you about their service! The add on would need to be less than Social Tables/Prismm though.?

I was going to move away from Social Tables to Prismm because it was going to be half the price. So it will be interesting to see what they can come…

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Hi all,

I know there have been several threads on here about diagramming software. We have used Social Tables and AllSeated/Prismm, and we are dissatisfied with both – too expensive, too glitchy, or poor customer service. Our Associate Director is at ACUI national in New York right now and talked to our friends at 7PointOps about the…

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Hi Minh,

We have a student manager who handles weekly scheduling and receives school schedules and time off requests from student staff.? Our student manager knows the shifts which need to covered so she assigns students to each and updates me on any shifts which may not have a student assigned.? She also works on scheduled two weeks out.

I…

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Thank you for sharing, Yolanda,

At Creighton University, we also use Teams Shift for our Desk Attendants and Event Support teams. I am happy to hear that this is also used in your institution.

While this may not be related to the original question, but I was wondering how y’all intake student availability and assign shifts to them. We…

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Hi Kourtney,

We love our scheduling system! We use one called SLING Scheduling. It allows users to create recurring unavailability (such as class schedules, weekly meetings, etc.) and also request time off. When building shifts, the system shows only those who are available based on both their availability and assigned position. For example,…

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Hi Kourtney,

At the University of Texas at San Antonio Student Union, we use Teams Shifts and that has been very helpful with creating specific groups in the schedule.? I then divide student staff into Front Desk, Table Checkout, Student Manager, and Graduate Assistant groups.? Once you create subgroups, they will pop up for you each week as…

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Hi Kourtney,

I didn’t know that you could have schedules in Workday since we are a Workday campus too so I’m curious to look into that. My name is Angelica Martinez and I am the Assistant Director of First-Year & Transition Programs at The New School in NYC. For us, we also have a large staff (about 50-60 students depending on the season) and…

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Hi folks

We have a staff of about 80 student staff over 4 positions in the building, and we are looking at the possibility of new shift scheduling software. It needs to allow for students to input either their availability for shifts, or their restrictions, whichever way the system works. And we need some options to auto populate…

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Thank you for asking. I’m interested to hear thoughts on this as well.

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Jennifer Jentz
Communications Specialist
University of Iowa
(319) 467-4562
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Original Message:
Sent: 02-27-2025 15:58
From: Lauren Hohls
Subject: Exploring Text Message Marketing…

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Hi Shauna,

I know I’m answering this late in the game (Outlook kept sending these updates to my junk mail folder), but I’m in a similar boat as you, trying to craft a successful advising model and come up with ways to both support and encourage student organization advisors (and those interested in such a role).

We do not currently have a…

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Mark your calendars for Virtual Community Week, happening Wednesday, March 5th, through Friday, March 7th!

Please note you can access all zoom links for the community meetings on the?Virtual Community Week Webpage

See the Virtual Community Week Schedule Below!!

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Hi Linda,
We have current EMS/Accruent and are looking to transition to Mazevo. There are many benefits to Mazevo (financial cost, personnel, customer service, iCloud based) that makes it much better for the Student Centers. 
Carole

Carole Dowell. M.P.A. She/Her/Hers

Director, University Student Commons

The Commons │ Division of Student Affairs

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Hi Linda,

We are transitioning next month from Accruent/EMS to Mazevo, and are really looking forward to the switch.

Our University uses 25Live to book classroom space, and we considered that platform for consistency, but overall rated Mazevo a better fit for our needs vs that small benefit.

Regards,
Geoff

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Happy Valentines day.? I’m looking for examples of non-traditional vendors located in Unions.? I would consider banks, copy centers, c-stores, hair salons, book stores, and tech shops to be traditional.? I’m looking for examples like dry cleaners, mobile phone accessories, hair product suppliers, etc.? If you have a unique vendor in your…

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At Illinois State, we have two classifications of RSOs – sponsored and independent. Sponsored RSOs are covered by university liability insurance. Independent RSOs are not. The university may require an independent RSO to purchase special event insurance, which I’m pretty sure the RSO can request through our event funding process. We also…

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Hi Linda,?

Always good to see messages from the alma mater! Our University system switched to CollegeNet (25Live) for all campus scheduling (events and academic). Our catering is third-party and they have their own systems that does not integrate with 25Live. We utilize Anthology Engage for our student organization management and it does…

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