A recent faculty discussion brought up several questions and concerns about the University’s new content management system (which was purchased from Hannon Hill):
- Do faculty use personal websites for teaching, research, and service?
- Does/will the CMS hinder faculty from accomplishing their teaching, research, and service? Some faculty members described the CMS as too restrictive and too user-unfriendly for their needs.
- Several faculty members were concerned about the increase in workload that would be required to maintain departmental websites. Some expressed resentment that IR imposed a new system on them and now expects them to spend the time to learn how to use the CMS and maintain their own departmental websites.
- There was also concern about being forced to conform to PR-restricted designs and formats (feeling “branded”).
Where can TAG take this issue from here? Should we hold an open forum to elicit more feedback?
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