To provide faculty and staff with a central source of timely and useful information about the campus community, the UC Davis News Service today is launching a new e-mail publication — UC Davis Friday Update.

Each Friday, the Update will be sent to all faculty and staff with ucdavis.edu e-mail addresses. Content will include short summaries and Web links to highlights from that week's Dateline, breaking news, feature stories from the university's home page, NewsWatch TV news stories and UC Davis Magazine, as well as events listings. In addition, the Update will include links to all campus directives issued in the previous week, and will replace the individual distribution of campus directives.

To ensure that a directive is included in the Update, departments must submit the draft directive to the campus policy coordinator for approval by noon Friday a week prior to the Friday of the desired publication date. To read all the details about the new directives policy, visit directives.ucdavis.edu/2008/08-036.cfm. Questions about the UC Davis Friday Update can be sent to Amy Rafferty at fridayupdate@ucdavis.edu.