Free Portrait Day will be held on June 28. This event is open to all Missouri State faculty and staff. It’s a great opportunity to ensure that university websites and publications are using your up-to-date, professional headshot.
Free Portrait Days will be held on April 19-20. This event is open to all Missouri State faculty and staff, and it’s a great opportunity to ensure that University websites and publications are using your up-to-date, professional headshot.
Key detailsYou will review and choose your photo on-site at the event. This photo will then be uploaded to the University directory – with no additional effort on your part.
Within a few days of the event, you will receive the photo you selected via email. This photo is provided at no charge; you are free to use it for other professional purposes.
The redesigned biology website recently launched as part of the Academic Website Project. It is the fifth academic website to receive a full redesign for the mobile-friendly template, a process that includes the creation of new content, design and multimedia elements.
The biology department is home to a diverse range of programs and research centers. Given the options and opportunities for prospective students, providing clarity became a focus of the redesign.
Each program now has its own sub-section on the website, where information regarding that program is gathered.
The department’s research centers — meaningful recruitment tools — are highlighted in a prominent section of the website’s homepage. The Facilities and Resources page then features expanded descriptions of each center.
This redesign included the creation of one new video, which highlights the department’s emphasis on research:
In addition, we were able to leverage videos that were created for other purposes. For example, the following video of a biology alumnus became a valuable addition to the Careers and Outcomes page for the Master of Science in Biology.
Mobile usage is growing exponentially — particularly among our largest demographics of prospective students, Millennials and Gen Z.
In 2015, Google experienced two mobile milestones:
Our office began the process of converting all academic department websites to a mobile-friendly format early this year.
The conversion process is not a complete redesign. Instead, it converts each site to the mobile template and reorganizes existing content for consumption on mobile devices.
Like the academic website redesigns, conversions are funded by the provost’s office and processed on a college-by-college rotation according to the deans’ prioritization.
Websites that are converted to the mobile-friendly template will later undergo redesign, during which new content, multimedia elements and design elements will be created. This two-step process allows our office to optimize all academic websites for mobile consumption as quickly as possible.
During the fall semester, we published the following mobile-friendly website conversions:
The redesigned website for the Master of Science in Administrative Studies recently launched as part of the Academic Website Project.
Prospective students get excited about the administrative studies curriculum, which allows them to tailor leadership skills to their individual goals and experiences. This flexibility, however, adds complexity. Explaining the curriculum with clarity and concision became a focal point of the redesign.
We accomplished this by building a Core Curriculum page, which outlines the curriculum in terms of its goals.
Website sections dedicated to each of the pre-designed option areas round out the program’s offerings:
A section dedicated to the Individualized Studies option outlines how students may design their own curriculum.
Online and international optionsThe MSAS program’s appeal to working professionals and international students also became important to the website’s redesign.
Many courses are offered online, which makes the program a great choice for people who want to pursue graduate studies while working. We created a page specifically for the Online Degree Option, which makes it easy for students to access the resources they need to succeed as online students.
Administrative studies is also an appealing option for international students, and because these students have specific needs and requirements we dedicated a section of the website to serving them.
Current trends in digital media made video a critical part of the content strategy for the MSAS website. We created the following video specifically for this project.
In addition, we utilized the following videos featuring MSAS students and alumni, which were created for other University projects.
