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RAVE (Rebel Announcements Via E-mail) is a system that collects messages and then sends a weekly e-newsletter to UNLV's largest student bodies, by class (freshman, sophomore, junior, senior, and graduate students). SEND, a very similar program, targets students in departments and colleges.

Submit a message
First, compose the message and include the necessary components. Be sure to abide by the RAVE Guidlines (download PDF).

Title: Be specific, concise, and catchy because this may be all students see in their inbox
For Who: Indicate Freshman, Sophomores, Juniors, Seniors, or Graduates & Professionals
Category: Announcement, Event, or Deadline
Send: Emergency or with Monday's announcement
Content: The bulk of the message content, spell checked, grammar checked, cannot exceed 3,000 characters
Sponsoring Organization: Indicate the campus organization or unit sponsoring the event.
Link: Provide the complete url of where students may find additional information, if applicable
Contact Information: Indicate the name of an office or employee who students should contact for additional information
Submitter Information: Your name, e-mail address, and phone number (this will not be made public to students)

Second, by Wednesday morning, the week before the Monday when you want the message to be in student inboxes, e-mail the message to the appropriate trusted submitter.Your subject line should indicate that this is a message intended for RAVE.

Academic: evp.ts@unlv.edu
Alumni Relations: alumni.ts@unlv.edu

Athletics: contact department*

CSUN: creativetech@unlv.edu

UNLV Foundation: contact department*

Educational Outreach: contact department*

Finance & Business: vpf.ts@unlv.edu

Graduate College & GPSA: rgp.ts@unlv.edu

Law School: contact department

Libraries: administration, 895-2286

Public Safety: contact department*

Research & Graduate Studies: rgp.ts@unlv.edu

Student Life: sl.ts@unlv.edu

University & Community Relations: ucr.ts@unlv.edu

* Departments that read "contact department" have a different mechanism for accepting and generating messages for students. Most likely, an individual responsible for directing communications on behalf of the area is the person you should contact

Every Monday, students receive a message in their university-issued Rebelmail (Pioneer, webmail) account. The title of the message is "UNLV Student News for the week of (date)." Articles in the message are organized into three categories: events, announcements, and deadlines. Each message title is hyper linked to a full on-line article, which opens in a Web browser when the link is clicked.