Posting on Campus

Posting on Campus/Bulletin Board Guidelines

Materials should be designed to inform the Folsom Lake College, El Dorado Center, and Rancho Cordova Center communities, on-campus and off, about classes and special campus events of interest.

The following guidelines are established with the purpose of:

• Providing simple-to-understand procedures for producing and posting flyers, announcements, and posters.
• Maintaining the aesthetics of the buildings.
• Ensuring that all college-related groups have equal access.

Guidelines

• College posting areas are not public forums. They are designed as a place for the college, its students, and employees to provide information to students and faculty/staff about student activities and events, college-sponsored activities and events, course promotions, student election information, and scholarship opportunities and job listings (on designated bulletin boards only). All postings must be sponsored by a college student, faculty, or staff member, or a registered college organization or department.
• Fliers, posters, and other materials on behalf of any college-affiliated organization or department should follow the logo, style, and branding guidelines outlined in the current Folsom Lake College style guide/branding toolkit. Please note: Templates are also available on FLC Inside.
• All materials to be posted must specifically state:
  • The type of activity/event.
  • The date, time, campus, and location of the activity/event.
  • The sponsoring individual, club, organization, or department.
• No postings shall include content that is obscene, libelous, or slanderous.
• No posting shall include:
  • Content that is based upon a legally protected classification (race, ethnic group identification, race, color, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy or childbirth-related condition, sexual orientation, sexual identity, religion or religious creed, age (over forty), national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, political affiliation or belief, military and veteran status, marital status)
  • Unreasonably interfere with students' or staff's work or learning environment, or which creates an intimidating, hostile, or abusive work environment, or which is sufficiently severe or pervasive as to adversely alter the conditions of the learning or work environment.

Approval & Posting Process

• All college interior posted materials (see "Posting Locations" below) should be approved prior to posting by the following offices (please allow appropriate time for approval of materials). Approval shall be given to any posting that falls within the designated types of information that may be posted and is not otherwise prohibited. Approval shall not be withheld based on the content of the posting:
  • ASFLC or club-related materials: Must be approved by the Student Life Supervisor, studentlife@flc.losrios.edu, or in Falcon's Roost FR-108.
  • Job listings: wexp@flc.losrios.edu.
  • Other materials: Must be approved by the Welcome and Student Success Center, flc-welcomecenter@flc.losrios.edu, or Aspen Hall/FL1; or Public Information Services Office (PISO), flc-pio@flc.losrios.edu.
• The sponsoring individual, club, organization, or department is responsible for posting their own materials once they have been approved.
• Publicity materials shall be posted no earlier than 10 instructional days preceding the activity/event.
• The sponsoring group or individual is responsible for removing all fliers, postings, and adhesive materials within two instructional days of the end date indicated on the item. All non-dated info may be posted for no more than 30 days.

Posting Locations

• All materials may be posted on designated bulletin boards only. Materials may not be affixed to or directly written on: any painted, brick, or slate walls; poles; fixtures; sidewalks; doors; or windows. Materials shall not be placed over or obstruct the view of previously posted materials or directional, emergency, or warning signs. Materials must be posted using push-pins or painter's tape. Staples and glue may not be used.
  • Interior Bulletin Boards:
    • Interior bulletin boards are not public forums. Only college-related fliers, posters, and other promotional materials about student activities and events, college-sponsored activities and events, course promotions, student election information, and scholarship opportunities and job listings (on designated bulletin boards only) may be posted. Please note: Some bulletin boards are specifically set aside for specific content (ex. ASFLC, job postings, etc.) and will be labeled accordingly.
    • Faculty Bulletin Boards: Individual faculty members have supervision of their respective boards located near their office locations and are designated accordingly. Materials are displayed there only by permission of the respective faculty. Faculty members are encouraged to routinely review their boards for appropriate content.
  • Exterior Community Bulletin Boards:
    • General community postings (for activities not specifically related to or sponsored by the college) may be posted on the exterior wall-mounted community bulletin boards at the Main Folsom campus in the Quad area (located at the front entrance to Aspen Hall/FL1 outside of Admissions & Records, and at Buckeye Hall/FL3 near the Large Lecture Hall FL3-173). Please note: No exterior posting boards are available at the El Dorado Center or Rancho Cordova Center at this time.
    • All materials may be posted for no more than 30 days.

Please note: Any item that has not followed the guidelines above is subject to removal.

Updated and reviewed by the Los Rios Community College District Office of the General Counsel, March 2019.