The community that I am going to conduct research on is VCSU. The reason I am choosing VCSU as my community is because I lived on campus in Snoeyenbos dorm. This flood has affected me because of that reason. The spokesperson of VCSU was Steven Shirley who is the President of VCSU. The reason I believe that Steven Shirley was the spokesperson is because he is the one who would keep people informed on what was going on. I received many emails from him regarding the flood and what was being done. The reason that he was the spokesperson was probably because he was the President of VCSU.
The channels of communication used get information to the public of the VCSU community were Notifind and email. Notifind was used to inform the students that for the week of the 13th to the 17th, no one was to return to campus and there were no classes. On April 15th, Steven Shirley sent out an email saying that for the remainder of the semester all classes will be online. Other emails have been sent about what to do for getting laptops back, how to sell back books, how to check out of dorms, forwarding addresses for mail, and other concerns. One email has three documents that contain some of the frequently asked questions.
A flood information page was setup on the VCSU webpage. It helped to give updates on what was going on in Valley City. It a map that showed different areas of Valley City like the Wintershow Building, the hospital, VCSU campus, and other important areas. The map also showed which bridges were closed down, what roads have dikes on them, and the area that was to be evacuated. Regular updates were added to the site as more information was known.
I think that the people at VCSU handled this situation very well. They made sure to notify everyone of changes that were happening. Without them keeping everyone up to date, there could have been a lot more confusion. If this happens again, I believe that the faculty of VCSU will know how to handle the situation better since they did so well this time. I think that people should thank the faculty and staff of VCSU for doing such a good job keeping everyone informed.
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I think that VCSU was a great topic to pick. I, myself, chose the whole town of Valley City. I agree that Steven Shirley was the spokesperson because we constantly received emails from him when all of the things were happening. He also spoke when outside media wanted to know about the college. I think this is a great topic and you will have a pretty easy time getting all the information because you were personally affected.
ReplyDeleteVCSU staff and faculty did a tremendous job of notifying people when something was about to change during this school. Ofcourse no one wanted this flood to happen and no one wanted to leave and take online classes... Especially science majors. Our classes don't really work online Even with labs being cancelled, we misssed out on a lot of importan information that will help us with our future jobs. Since the conditions of this situation are as, we can only do with what we have. The support from other colleges was enormous. Help was around every corner and to say the least, we actually were well equiped to handle the situation. My hats off to you VCSU...
ReplyDeleteThat map was pretty cool. I had never seen an interactive Google Map before and it really helped explain things. I'm terrible with street numbers, especially in Valley City. When I heard that everything south of 6th St. was being voluntarily evacuated (or whatever it was), I had no idea what that included, or if I was apart of that (I was). The map really showed what was going on and was very informative.
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