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Campus Review
March 6, 2012
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Content Management System Conversion Update
by Dolores Cox, Image and Communications
On Mar. 5, during Spring Break, the next
phase of migrating the University website
to a Content Management System (CMS)
called DotNetNuke (DNN) will occur.
At that time, everything on the
adminser-
vices.clayton.edu
domain will be pub-
lished. The new sites for Academic
Affairs, Business and Operations,
External Relations, OITS, and Student
Affairs will be launched, as well as sites
for the Clayton State University
Foundation, Staff Council, Laker Angels,
Clayton State Retirees Association,
Women’s Forum, and Toastmasters. This
domain comprises approximately 50 per-
cent to 60 percent of the University website.
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
“adminservices.clayton.edu”
will now
start with “www.clayton.edu.” For exam-
ple, http://adminservices.clayton.edu/finan-
cialaid will become http://www.clay-
ton.edu/financial-aid.
When the administrative division sites are
up and running, the focus will then turn to
academic units. We have revised the time-
line for completion of academic sites in
order to allow more time for faculty mem-
bers to convert their home pages to DNN.
We have a tentative date for CIMS and
College of Health of mid-May to June 1.
For the College of Business, College of
Arts and Sciences, and School of
Graduate Studies, we have extended the
date until July 1.This means that faculty
will have three to four months to work
with the Center for Instructional
Development to convert faculty home
pages and have a usable DNN site when
the college and school 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.
Your patience is greatly appreciated as
efforts continue to improve and enhance
the University’s website presence. Do not
hesitate to contact us if you have concerns
or need more information.
The Clayton State Strategic Plan:
What We Intend to do; Our Goals and Action Steps
A.
Create an outstanding educational
experience that stimulates intellectual
curiosity, critical thinking, and innovation.
Action Step I:
Develop innovative
academic programs to better support
the workforce and economic develop-
ment needs of the region and state.
Action Step II:
Invest in and promote
excellence and distinctiveness within
each of the colleges and academic
departments and programs.
Action Step III:
Enhance the educa-
tional experience of students through
the support of student research/schol-
arship/creative endeavors and student
engagement with faculty.
Action Step IV:
Broaden students’
global perspective through appropriate
curricula, experiential and social
opportunities.
hybrid courses and on-line learning.
Action Step XI:
Foster a cross-disci-
plinary approach in developing or
revising courses and programs within
and among departments and colleges.
Action Step XII:
Enhance the effec-
tiveness of off-campus instructional
sites by improving their integration into
main campus activities and as a corol-
lary assure that the off-campus sites are
supported sufficiently to maintain excel-
lent services and programs.
B.
Engender a spirit of openness,
understanding, collaboration, and
mutual respect throughout the
University.
Action Step I:
Address the cultural
competencies of University faculty and
staff.
Action Step V:
Obtain, expand and main-
tain accreditation from national, profes-
sional and specialized accrediting organi-
zations.
Action Step VI:
Increase externally funded
research, scholarship, and creative endeavors.
Action Step VII:
Invest resources to
recruit, retain, and support dynamic and
inspiring faculty and staff.
Action Step VIII:
Promote excellence in
scholarship, research, creative endeavors,
and innovation.
Action Step IX:
Foster development of
active learning experiences in every major
and/or degree or certificate program.
Action Step X:
Expand the quality of
technology, both equipment and training,
to support academic innovation, student
learning, and the further development of
Strategic Plan, cont’d., p. 7