Employee Communications Advisory Council
Charter
Mission
To support USC’s Employee Engagement and Communications department, specifically the alignment of its planning, attention, resources and budget to best meet the department mission:
- To inform, engage and inspire employees, facilitate conversations and collaboration that enhance productivity, and provide creative and compelling content for university staff and faculty who are working to support USC’s ambitious mission:
- The development of human beings and society through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit.
General expectations
Council members will:
- Provide diverse perspectives on employee communication – across schools and divisions, faculty and staff, leaders and individual contributors
- Provide specific and relevant feedback on all employee communication efforts
Council owners will share:
- General communication ideas, themes, brainstorms, strategies, goals
- Proposed communication initiatives
- Communication already in the planning stages but not yet implemented
- Feedback on completed communication initiatives to inform future projects
Specific expectations
Council members will:
- Share the results of Council meetings with their schools/divisions to collect feedback; members are encouraged to form a discussion subgroup within their unit
- Provide feedback to the Council and provide background/perspective on that feedback from their units
- Bring any topics to Council that they or their units believe need attention
Council owners will:
- Send meeting notes after each meeting, inviting feedback which will be shared with the entire Council
- Implement agreed-upon advice from Council to the extent possible
- Maintain Council webpage on the Employee Gateway to include:
- Council Charter
- Council members
2018-2019 councilmembers
Dornsife
Susan Bell
Emily Gersema
Architecture
Trudi Sandmeier
Marshall
Steve Adcook
Cinema
Kristin Borella
Kaufman
Sarah Fried-Gintis
Ostrow
Kelley Randle
Viterbi
Susan Robles
Gould
Stephanie Lertzman
Keck
Carmen Carillo
Jerome Fletcher
Thornton
April De La Rosa
Bovard College
Christina Guevarra
Dworak-Peck
Nils de Mol van Otterloo
Libraries
Hugh McHarg
Alfred Mann Institute
Kathleen Bonagofsky
Provost’s Office
Erika Jimenez
Keck Medicine
Anne McGilvray
Sara Reeve
University Advancement
Grace Reitzfeld
Finance
Erik Brink
FBS
Anne Chavez
Payroll
Carlos Smith
Capital Construction/Facilities Management
Mari Rosales Gomez
ITS
Erika Crenshaw
Auxiliaries
Lethy Navarrete or Tara Skipper
Academic Senate
Sofia Gruskin
Staff Assembly
Erika Chesley
Emeriti Center
Janette Brown
Ex officio members
Diane Schrader
Director, Employee Engagement and Communications
Rebecca Weintraub, PhD
Advisor, Clinical Professor of Communication, Annenberg
Christian Gunning
Associate VP, University Communications
Employee Engagement/Communications staff
Jandy Hardesty, Digital Media Manager
Nancy Weldon, Senior Writer
David Robbins, Writer
Sonia Mentz, Writer
Candace Stalder, Digital Media Specialist