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Campus Review
May 29, 2012
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Content Management System Update
by Dolores Cox, Image and Communications
Another milestone has been accom-
plished in the conversion of the
University website to a Content
Management System (CMS). The first
academic unit, the College of Health,
was published on May 16. In addition,
sites for Clayton State-Fayette and the
Henry County instructional site went live
along with eCore, Distance Learning,
and University Health Services.
Administrative division sites were suc-
cessfully launched on Mar. 5, and atten-
tion was then focused on academic sites.
The College of Information and
Mathematical Sciences conversion has
been completed and is being reviewed.
Work has also commenced on the
College of Business and School of
Graduate Studies sites. During June and
early July, the College of Arts and
Sciences and the Honors Program pages
will be converted. The anticipated time-
line is to have all academic units ready to
launch by the end of the summer term.
There are two parts to the process of con-
verting academic unit sites. First, the
The initial faculty contact page, which
is part of the department’s website, will
be converted and included as part of the
academic unit’s site. However, the
“faculty home page” must be moved by
the faculty member. Each faculty
member is responsible for contacting
CID and getting his/her information
moved over to a new DNN site. CID
staff is holding training sessions on set-
ting up faculty home pages and is avail-
able to assist faculty. Once academic
unit sites are launched at the end of the
summer term, the url for existing facul-
ty home pages will not work.
If you have questions or concerns
regarding the conversion of academic
unit sites, please do not hesitate to con-
tact Dolores Cox or Leanne Bradberry
in the Office of University Image and
Communications.
existing information on the website is
moved into the CMS. There is an opportu-
nity to review the new pages and to give
input for refinement. University Image and
Communications staffs will train depart-
mental web editors on how to use
DotNetNuke (DNN) prior to the launch of
the site.
The second part involves faculty web
pages.
Now is the time for faculty members to
contact the Center for Instructional
Development (CID) and get assistance
with moving content from the FrontPage
site to the new DNN faculty web space.
Each faculty member already has his/her
own space in DNN. Faculty should get
their new pages set up by July 1, 2012.
When sites are launched for the College
of Information and Mathematical
Sciences, College of Business, and
College of Arts and Sciences, existing fac-
ulty web pages will no longer be connect-
ed. Two presentations were made in
Faculty Senate regarding this process and
the timelines for academic units.
John F. Gwizdak, former (2000/2001)
commander-in-chief of the Veterans of
Foreign Wars (VFW) spoke to the Clayton
State University campus on Friday, May
25 to commemorate Memorial Day.
Gwizdak, a resident of Raleigh, Ga.,
spoke under the sponsorship of the
University’s Veterans Resource Center
(VRC), and a grant from the Board of
Regents of the University System of
Georgia.
Gwizdak talk centered on the historical
significance of Memorial Day and
addressed student veterans’ GI benefits
and the importance of education and com-
pleting college.
Former VFW Commander-in-Chief
Gives Memorial Day Speech at Clayton State
(Above) John F. Gwizdak discusses the mental anguish soldiers face on the front lines. “The
precious Lord gave me the opportunity to be returned [after Vietnam],” he said, as he paid trib-
ute to those who gave all in the service of our country, and as he spoke of the inception of the
Memorial Day holiday.