The College of Education at Illinois has a presence on several social media platforms. The MarCom Office monitors and maintains these sites.
The MarCom Office monitors and maintains the social media sites represented on the College of Education at Illinois homepage. We encourage our community to participate in the conversation and add comments, links, photos, and videos on those sites. All postings and comments should be relevant to the College community, reviewed, and public.
By posting to any of the College's social media sites, users understand and acknowledge that this information is available to the public and that the College may use this information for internal and external promotional purposes. Please note that other participants may use posted information beyond the control of the College of Education at Illinois. Users who do not wish to have the information they have made available via these sites used, published, copied, and/or reprinted should not post on the social media sites.
Comments, links, photos, and videos are welcome on all University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign social media platforms. Comments or posts to university accounts can be removed for any of the following reasons, at any time and without notice, if they:
User comments or user posts do not represent the opinions of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign or the College of Education.
The university and units adopting these guidelines reserve the right to respond to comments that do not violate the guidelines. The university also reserves the right to refer social media comments and activity to the applicable social media platform and/or authorities for appropriate action.
All users, including page administrators, are subject to the terms of service of each social media site and these guidelines.
If you have concerns or questions, contact socialmedia@illinois.edu.
The College of Education prides itself on sharing relevant information with our broad audience via social media channels. These accounts have become a vital part of our communication strategies.
We are always looking for high-quality content to share with our audiences. However, we don't always see everything that is shared. If you have information you feel would be relevant to the College of Education audience, send it to communications@education.illinois.edu. Please make sure that the item you are sharing is timely and of general interest to College of Education audiences.
Please keep in mind that the College of Education has a social media content schedule, and we may not be able to accommodate all requests.
The MarCom Office has amassed a broad, interactive, diverse and responsive online following through the College's social media channels. We always challenge units to ask important questions when creating new social media accounts. Who is your target audience(s), and are they already following the College broadly? What are you trying to accomplish that cannot be done via campaigns through the College's social media accounts?
When starting down this path, we have the following recommendations:
Prior to launching a social media presence, communicate with the MarCom Office for best practices, teamwork, strategy, and more.
Consider the day-to-day needs of communicating with a following/audience. We don't recommend starting a social media profile unless you have dedicated time to keeping it active and dynamic. If you do, create a maintenance plan and content schedule and assign the appropriate student or staff to complete the work.
Identify the College of Education and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the Name and/or the About section of your social media account or page. It's important to identify your affiliation with your home institution.
Provide a web address for your unit in the About section for your account or page.
Read and adhere to the Social Media Best Practices provided by campus Strategic Communications.
If you have any questions or need assistance, please contact Orion Buckingham, the College of Education Communications Office's social media specialist.
Some College units maintain social media profiles on various platforms. These are managed by unit personnel, not the MarCom Office. Here are links to select College unit accounts, but several more exist.
Curriculum & Instruction
Education Policy, Organization & Leadership
Educational Psychology
Special Education