Website Migrations

May 2025 Update

All departments have migrated to NGWP. Content restoration continues.

The final push to NGWP was completed in early February 2025. Many departments launched with a more condensed, marketing-style presence in their initial form. Since then, content restoration and expansion has been ongoing.

Unchanged since my last update, but still notable changes from the previous website experience:

DEPT RESPONSIBILITY

Please understand that I am one person with many departments all needing updates at once. I also understand from your perspective: you need prospective students and possible new hires to see the best of what your department has to offer. During this transitional time, I ask for only your highest priority needs to be shared with me first so that I may find a way to balance serving all CAS departments at once.

NEW EXPECTATIONS

Website purpose has evolved since the older sites were created. Currently, the main purpose of department websites is marketing, and our target audience is prospective students (and their parents). I realize there are other considerations to be made for attracting prospective new hires, as well as posting required information for accrediting bodies, grant funding entities, and so on. Please be sure to communicate those needs to me if I have missed anything, and I will do my best to publish in a timely manner.

The new sites are ideally to be kept lean, keeping in mind that the university now requires complete, page-by-page audits of migrated sites on an annual basis. Someone in your department will be delegated this responsibility at a later date.

CONSIDER INTERNAL CAPABILITIES

Current students and faculty can be served directly from your department via SharePoint, Canvas, and other internally managed platforms. These platforms are better document repositories than WordPress. For example, department policy documents could be managed within your department’s SharePoint, and I can publish a link to that directory in the site footer. Then you have internal control of the documents being shared, and no website updates will be needed when documents are changed, added, or deleted.

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