Calendar Submission Deadline
To appear in this week's Event Digest submit by Monday COB.
Step 1. Basic Event Information/First Steps
What is the purpose of your event? Who is your target audience?
While your event is starting to come together, these are the first questions that you want to ask yourself. Once the main purpose of your event is laid out, you can start to ask yourself what the next steps look like. Where should the event take place? What time/day? Virtual or In Person? How am I going to market the event?
Once you figure out the date and time of your event, the first thing you want to do is input your event information onto the Maxwell Events Outlook Calendar. Uploading your event information to the to the Events Outlook calendar will let the rest of the Maxwell events community know when your event is to avoid potential overlap. To add the Maxwell Events Outlook Calendar to your Outlook account, please see below.
Maxwell Events Outlook Calendar - ALL Events
Outlook calendar- for all events - public, private, department meetings, department or institute speaker series, and named lectures. The main purpose of this calendar is for planning purposes and to avoid overlap between departments. If you do NOT have access to the Outlook Event Calendar. Please email Morgan as you need access to add the calendar. Then follow the steps below:
i. The calendar is called maxevents@syr.edu
ii. To add to your calendar
in outlook click on Add Calendar
Open shared calendar
Type in maxwevents@syr.edu
Click enter
iii. Add your event
In the notes section add your name, a brief description of the event, the intended audience, and a contact person for the event for example:
Maxwell Dean's Office Staff Meeting
All Dean's Office Staff including Dean's
BW, X3461
Step 2. Location and Time
2A. Space Reservations
To reserve a space for your event within Maxwell or Eggers, you must fill out the Room Reservation Form and send it to Bethany Walawender, bdwalawe@syr.edu, at least one month prior to your event date. The room reservation form applies for the Maxwell Foyer, Maxwell Founders Room, Maxwell Patio, Strasser Legacy Room (Eggers 220) and the Strasser Commons and is on a first come first serve basis. Therefore, the sooner you get the room reservation form in, the sooner you can secure your event location. Any other event space requests for example, classroom requests, please fill out the Academic Room Reservation Form.
To reserve 060 Eggers Hall/Global Collaboratory, please email maxwellav@syr.edu and to reserve the Maxwell Dean's Conference Room, 204B Maxwell, please email Bethany Walawender, bdwalawe@syr.edu.
*Keep in mind set up and clean up time. If your event is being recorded or livestreamed, you are going to want to reserve at LEAST two hours of set up time and one hour of clean up time so our ICT Event Support will have enough time to set up and tear down the equipment.
For more information on reserving a space, please click the link below.
2B. Maintenance and/or Furniture Requests
You are solely responsible for the clean up and room reset of your event. Meaning if you would like to change the layout of the room, you are going to have to reach out to Physical Plant and put a request in. First, you will need to fill out a purchase requisition form, describe in detail exactly what you want to have done by Physical Plant, and send it to facilities@syr.edu. You will also have to complete a Billed Services request form (required NetID and password). Contact Laura Walsh, lcwalsh@syr.edu to obtain approval.
You can explore additional information about services requests on the BFAS website.
Step 3. Century/Catering Requests
Century Party Rentals:
While you are organizing and planning the details for you event, for example, where and when you want to have your event, keep in mind the room lay out and location. Is your event occurring in the Maxwell Foyer, Strasser Commons, Strasser Legacy Room or the Founders Room? If so, you need to order tables and chairs directly from Century Party Rental as SU Catering is not responsible for providing tables and chairs anymore.
Are you planning on hosting your event outside? If so, what if it rains? You may want to consider a tent for your event. For tent rental, you must contact Century as well. Please call Jackie or Glen at Century at 315-452-1240 to discuss your event needs.
Important Note: If you are hosting your event outside after business hours, please keep in mind that Century will most likely do a next day pick up for the tents, tables and chairs. This means that you are required to reach out to DPS (Department of Public Safety) so that they can assign a DPS officer to patrol the event area over night. This is required by Century! To reach out to DPS, please submit the Special Events Request Form.
For questions or concerns with ordering tables and chairs and/or tents from Century, please contact Morgan.
Catering Requests/Alcohol Permits:
To serve alcohol at a campus event, you must comply with the Syracuse University alcohol policy. Liquor licenses must be present and permits for serving alcohol must be submitted AT LEAST 30 days in advance. To submit a permit, please email SU catering at campuscatering@syr.edu.
You can find catering menus and prices on the Syracuse University Food Services website.
All catering orders should be submitted to campuscatering@syr.edu.
For more detail or additional needs, please reach out to the Catering leadership team members below and they will happily follow up with you:
- For questions pertaining to sales, please contact Sydney Pajack (slpajack@syr.edu).
- For questions pertaining to the Dome, the Lally Complex, or the Melo Center, please contact Michael Bomasuto (mjbomasu@syr.edu).
- For questions pertaining to menus, dietary restrictions, or event planning, please contact Chef Bryan Hammond (bjhammon@syr.edu).
It is important to note that SU Campus Catering will be taking care of the linens for your tables. The cost of the linens will be added to your catering contract. So make sure you are in communication with Catering on how many tables are ordered through Century so they know how many linens to provide.
Step 4. Marketing
Once your event is put together and you have a set time and location, you can start thinking about how you want to advertise your event. Whether it is sending out an email through the email generator or creating a poster/flyer to post around the building and campus, you can find all the information you need here! After you have uploaded your event information to the Maxwell Events Outlook Calendar, you can now input your event information on Sitefinity. Uploading your event information to Sitefinity will ensure that your event will show up on the Maxwell Events Calendar as well as the SU Calendar.
4A. Sitefinity - Departmental/Dean's Office events
Sitefinity is used to transfer event information to various calendars on our website including the SU Calendar, the Maxwell Events Calendar, and each individual department/institute calendars.
To log into Sitefinity click here.
For specific instructions on how to add your event to the Sitefinity Calendar please visit our, Adding Maxwell Calendar Events answers page.
4B. Email Generator
This is the marking system used to create event emails – they have logo’s already loaded in the system and you can select from different templates. It is also easier to read than sending a picture/pdf of a poster. If you have yet to use the email generator feel free to reach out to Morgan for training, as it can be a little confusing at first.
Log onto the email generator system - https://emailgen.syr.edu/
Sample email from the Email Generator
4C. Posters vs. Flyers
If you are planning on creating a poster and/or flyer for your event, please take the format from one of the templates listed below. There are three different theme's to choose from. Each of the templates are offered in PowerPoint and these templates abide by the Syracuse University Branding Guidelines. The difference between a poster and a flyer is the size. Posters are 11x17 in size where as flyers are 8 1/2x11 in size. Feel free to download the templates listed below and edit based on your event.
There is also a "Save the Date" template below as well. Feel free to download that template and use it to spread the word in the early stages of your event.
Posters (11x17)
Flyers (8 1/2 x 11)
Accessibility Statement: At the bottom right of each poster, there should be an accessibility statement.
Large Events (>100): "American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation and Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART) will be available. Please contact (enter contact and email address) for additional accommodations."
Small Events (<100): "Please contact (enter contact and email address) for accommodations."
For more questions on marketing your event, please contact Morgan directly.
Step 5: Technology Needs
Since COVID-19, virtual events have really taken off over the past few years and have been a great outlet for events across the university. However, if you are planning on live streaming or recording your in person event there are a few things that you should be aware of.
In order to live stream/record your event, you must make sure to give enough set up time before the event. You must reserve the event space at least 2 hours before the event start time and 1 hour after the event to ensure that there is enough time to get everything set up and taken down.
Please reach out to Tom Fazio at maxwellav@syr.edu to set up your event technology needs. Before reaching out to Tom, please make sure you are prepared with answers to the following questions:
- What is the purpose of the video recording? Who is the audience? Why would they watch the video? This shapes the amount of equipment and preparation needed.
- Are you planning on livestreaming your event?
- If so, is this anything beyond a simple 1-camera recording to sit on a shelf?
- Are you planning on having more than 100 people attend your event? If so, please see the guidelines to reserve CART under Step 6.
Step 6. Inclusive Events
Use Syracuse University's inclusive events website to make sure that your event is inclusive.
On that resource page you will find resources like:
- Guide to Planning an Inclusive Event
- ASL Interpreting Services (the iSchool has used Aurora of CNY in the past)
- CART providers (we have used campus AV support / LEMP in the past)
- If you are expecting more than 100 guests at your event then you MUST include CART.
- Please contact Tom Fazio at maxwellav@syr.edu to secure your CART needs.
- Tom will need a chart string and name of the person to notify for the $125/per hour fee. (Minimum charge is 1 hour, then 1/4 hour increments.)
Step 7. VIP Invites
If you are planning to invite the Maxwell Dean to your event, please notify Bethany Walawender (bdwalawe@syr.edu).
If you are planning to invite campus VIPs such as the Provost or Chancellor, you must notify Bethany Walawender (bdwalawe@syr.edu) and she will complete the Meeting and Event Request Form (MERF) to request the Chancellor's attendance. You must also contact DPS to make sure that a DPS officer will be present at the event. To reach out to DPS, please submit the Special Events Request Form.
Other Important Event Information
Student Events
Students must have a faculty sponsor for any event in the Maxwell Eggers Complex.
Off-hour building access
If your event will require off-hour building access, please coordinate with Laura Walsh, lcwalsh@syr.edu, to get access to the building after business hours.
Swag
Submit requests for swag and other giveaway items to Julianne Davis (jdavis01@syr.edu).
Parking
Any of the below-authorized users can complete the Parking Request Form.
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