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Campus Review
July 16, 2012
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Content Management System Conversion Update
by Dolores Cox, Office of Image & Communications
Save the Date for the
Top 100 Workplaces Employee Celebration Event
Clayton State University was recognized
by the Atlanta Journal Constitution as one
of Metropolitan Atlanta’s Top 100
Workplaces. As President Dr. Thomas
Hynes has communicated to the campus,
this is a significant honor and achieve-
ment.
Hynes has appointed a committee to plan
a “thank you” celebration. Committee
members are: Natasha Hutson, Heidi
Benford,
Marcia
Bouyea-Hamlet,
Quandra Wright, Valerie Lancaster, Nikia
Yallah, Michelle Ellis, Shannon Thomas,
Traci Gragg, Dolores Cox, Nikki Finlay,
Betty Lane and John Brooks.
The committee has selected a date for the
event: Tuesday, Sept. 4 from 2 p.m. to
4:30 p.m. There are no classes that day
due to Faculty Development Day.
Hopefully faculty and staff members will
be able to make time to drop in for a fun-
filled break from work. The purpose of
this event is to come together and cele-
brate the supportive and collaborative
environment which contributed to
Clayton State University’s Top 100
Workplaces recognition.
The event location will be the Student
Activities Center and the SAC Green.
The committee is working to finalize
details regarding refreshments and activi-
ties. An invitation will be sent to all
employees early in August so that an
attendance estimate may be obtained.
This will facilitate more accurate planning
for food service.
Please place the date on your calendar and
plan to participate in this special event.
On Aug. 1, the next phase of migrating
the University website to a Content
Management System (CMS) called
DotNetNuke (DNN) will occur. The
new sites for the College of Arts and
Sciences, College of Business,
College
of
Information
and
Mathematical Sciences and School of
Graduate Studies will be launched, as
well as sites for the Honors Program,
Auxiliary Services, and additional
new pages for the School of Nursing.
After the switchover to DNN, all of
these
sites
will
use
the
www.clayton.edu domain prefix.
What this means is that anything with
a URL starting with http://a-s.clay-
ton.edu , http://business.clayton.edu ,
http://cims.clayton.edu
,
and
http://graduate.clayton.edu will now
start with www.clayton.edu For
example, http://honorsprogram.clay-
ton.edu
will
become
www.clayton.edu/honorsprogram
when the sites are launched. The col-
lege and respective departmental websites
will automatically redirect beginning
Aug. 1.
The launch of the academic unit sites also
means that faculty members should have
converted their faculty web pages to
DNN. When the new college sites are
launched, existing faculty home pages
will no longer be connected or viewable.
The Center for Instructional Development
is available to assist with conversion of
faculty home pages so that a DNN site is
ready when the college sites go live.
The CMS conversion project is a collabo-
ration among several divisions and
departments: Dolores Cox, Leanne
Bradberry, and Shannon Crupi in the
External Relations Office of University
Image and Communications; Tom
Marshall, Chris Hansen, and Richard
Young in OITS Administrative Systems;
Roger Poore, Dan Newcombe, and Todd
Birchfield in OITS Telecommunications
& Networking; and Jill Lane, Lou
Brackett, Steven Smith, James Fries,
and Christopher White in the
Academic Affairs Center for
Instructional Development.
Following the Aug. 1 launch, the
remaining sites to be converted are
Recruitment & Admissions and
Continuing Education. Your patience
is greatly appreciated as efforts contin-
ue to improve and enhance the
University’s website presence. Do not
hesitate to contact us if you have con-
cerns or need more information.