The Ohio State University Office of Student Life: Dining Services March 2025 Article published in Campus Dining Today, the trade magazine of National Association of College & University Food Services (NACUFS). This magazine has a print circulation of 2,600 and digital circulation of more than 6,000. NACUFS_CampusDiningTodaySpring2025Download Audience: Senior dining services leaders at peer institutions… Continue reading Trade magazine published article for Ohio State Dining Services
I wrote this blog post for Your Student Life to not only share with students about the new reusable coffee sleeves but also to highlight existing sustainability efforts by Dining Services. The article went through several revisions and back and forth with Dining senior leadership to get more information about sustainability initiatives and to ensure… Continue reading Web article for Ohio State Dining Service- Your Student Life: Choose to Reuse, Sustainability in Dining
What: Sloopy’s Diner hosts revenue-generating buffets on home football games. I managed the marketing plan for these buffets, aiming to increase attendance and reach our target audience through new approaches. Target audience: football season ticket holders, alumni, students, staff and faculty Goal: Increase attendance to Sloopys Gameday Buffets in 2024 to 275 attendees. This event… Continue reading Sloopy’s Game Day Buffet 2024 Marketing Plan
I'm volunteering with AAF Columbus on the Communications committee, gaining more copywriting experience. I wrote this copy to promote their holiday event. The copy was used in the December 10 email newsletter. Get ready to jingle all the way at AAF's holly jolly Ugly Sweater Soiree. Dust off your your most festive holiday sweater for… Continue reading Copywriting for AAF Columbus
I wrote this online article for The Ohio State University Office of Student Life department Buckeye Careers. The article ran during finals week in early December and featured ways students could get a head start on career planning during winter break. I met with the Buckeye Careers team before writing to understand what main points… Continue reading Article for Ohio State’s Office of Student Life Buckeye Careers
I wrote this article for Ohio State's Dining Services to encourage students to eat at one of the many on-campus food trucks. This article came about after I finished working with Student Life Technology Services to create a webpage that published food truck locations and schedules. I wanted students to find that resource. The food… Continue reading Wrote web article for OSU Dining Services
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5 stars A captivating, easy-to-digest mystery thriller where three siblings in a small town uncover the cold, dark truth about their family. I read this book as part of my friend's book club. Recently, I haven't been reading the book club books but this one caught my attention when I read the summary. And,… Continue reading Book Review: Home is Where the Bodies Are
How do you market a career fair to all Ohio State students? One part of the strategy is email. Specifically, getting the career fair included in the On Campus newsletter to undergraduate, graduate and professional students. More than 50,000 undergraduate students receive this weekly email newsletter during the school year on Tuesdays. I worked with… Continue reading Marketing Ohio State’s Career Fair by On Campus Email Newsletter
I’m proud of this Dining Services advertisement in The Lantern’s BuckeyeBound issue. The goal of this ad was to educate incoming Ohio State students about the wide variety of campus dining options. We don’t want students stuck waiting in long lines at Traditions dining halls when they could go somewhere else like a café to… Continue reading Print ad for Ohio State Dining Services
I wrote this article about Dining Services (one of the five clients I provide marketing support for within the Office of Student Life at The Ohio State University) and it was featured in the university-wide email On Campus and on the Student Life homepage. It's rewarding to know that my writing reached students, staff and… Continue reading Ohio State Dining Services Article: Campus Dining – From Quick Bites to Hidden Gems
Debbie Wakefield 