Had a sweet first time joining the First Year Programs all-staff meeting. We had great discussion and are setting forth with a lot of the follow-ups listed below in my email following our meeting. First up is connecting with Natalie to include an Athletics component to Orientation Leader training and Robert to connect the Husky Street Team with him for Winter and next Fall Dawg Daze!
Email from Erin Allett on Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2014:
Thank you again for taking the time to include me in your
staff meeting yesterday. I truly enjoyed our initial conversation and the
ideas that it sparked. There is nothing but potential moving forward with
a stronger Athletics-FYP partnership and I couldn’t be more excited about your
willingness to collaborate!
Incorporating “Husky Athletics awareness” components in
orientation leader training appears to be a fantastic, actionable starting
point, as these students have a tremendous impact and reach with new
students! I am still digesting some of our ideas and notes from yesterday
and will be sharing bits of our discussion with my team in the week
ahead. I am looking forward to continuing to follow-up with each of you
in your respective areas.
Director: Grant – I greatly enjoyed hearing your views about the perspectives,
misconceptions, and behaviors associated with the divide between Athletics and
campus – the proverbial, and literal, “climb.” While we both know that
Rome wasn’t built in a day (apologies I have a tendency to use terrible clichés
in emails), I think there is nothing but potential and promise in thinking
critically about the underlying reasons and how this group can just begin to
raise questions and take some steps forward. Thank you again for your
openness to connecting, swapping ideas, and putting all of our brains together
on this! If you feel it appropriate for you and your team, I would love
to have a monthly check-in to continue to keep the gearings turning as to how
we can continue make an impact in thoughts and actions as we build a stronger
relationship between FYP and Athletics.
Program Manager (Orientation): Natalie – I am looking forward to working with you
more on the orientation leader front to see if we can move forward with some of
the ideas discussed, ex. a student-athlete/coach panel discussion. Please
reign me in if I get overly excited about helping to add some of these pieces
into training – I am well aware that there are a plethora of other
aspects that are critical to their training J.
Another idea that came to mind in talking to our Athletics New Media contact is
to include social media incorporation with leaders following and liking Husky
Athletics social media accounts during training – this is our strongest
strategy with awareness of games and the personality of our programs.
Orientation leaders would then pass down this practice to their orientees as
one of the first things that new students do when arriving on campus.
Program Manger (Social Media): Martha – Social media-wise, our strategy with Husky
Athletics New Media is to create content that increases awareness of events and
the personalities of our athletics/teams (well hey, exactly the goals we
discussed yesterday!). If your team is comfortable tapping into our
content with RT, likes, follows, etc. I believe that would blend well with our
strategy. Let’s chat more about this, perhaps?
Program Manager (Dawg Daze): Robert – Thank you again for the suggestion of
HFS. It would be great to connect soon to devise a yearly(ish) strategy
for Dawg Daze events. I’m sure there are a ton of pieces TBD, but would
love to come up with a snapshot look of ways Athletics can be incorporated and
help to enhance some of this programming. As I mentioned in previous
discussions, I oversee our Husky Street Team – a new internship program with
the main objective of being foot soldiers in promoting Husky Athletics on
campus. HST will be a great resource and our drivers on any Dawg Daze
fronts. Please let me know any other team members that should be
included!
Program Manager (FIGs): Ali – Great ideas with FIGs! Is there a way
that is best to streamline this approach? I know our department has
worked with FIG leaders in one-off type of situations, but want to make sure we
are maneuvering through the appropriate channels and making life easy for
everyone.
Assistant Director: LeAnne – Thank you again for connecting us with the appropriate contacts to utilize your FYP & Commuter Commons screens for Husky Athletics messaging that is gear specifically to UW students. I am working with our Manager of Visual Design currently to fine-tune our strategy to best utilize this resource we are branding as “DawgCast.” Should have an update soon!
Program Support Supervisor Katherine – It was a pleasure meeting you and hearing
your ideas about how to incorporate Athletics into FYP throughout the
year. You may be the only safe one that I’m not going to hound with
follow-up steps J! I’m sure we
will continue to work together as we move forward and get the ball really
rolling!
Have a great rest of your weeks,
Erin Allett | Assistant Director of Game
Day Experience
University of Washington Athletics
213 Graves Hall – Box 354070 Seattle, WA 98195-4070
Office 206.221.7465206.221.7465 | Fax 206.616.2459
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