Scope:
Project's Goals
To effectively communicate with the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences’ key audiences and contribute
to the college’s mission and vision through the redevelopment of the college and department Web sites.
To develop a Web site that embodies the spirit of the New American University and the College of Liberal
Arts and Sciences.
To position the college as an exemplar of university branding, communication and technology standards.
To effectively utilize and manage communication and technology resources of the College of Liberal Arts
and Sciences, University Technology Office, and Provost Communications Group.
To effectively integrate with university branding and development activities.
General Scope of Work
1) Evaluate the structure and content of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Web site and
create a creative brief to guide future Web development. Make recommendations for a
distributed model for Web maintenance. (PCG/UTO)
2) Redesign the Web site and implement a Drupal content management system.
PCG to provide art and content direction. UTO to provide technology support, application
development, training and template distribution. (UTO/PCG)
a. Core pages of the Web site (http://clas.asu.edu/ )
(Including content for students, faculty, alumni, donors and community) (UTO/PCG)
b. Redesign the following 30 academic units: (UTO/PCG)
Humanities
• English
• Film and Media Studies
• History
• Jewish Studies
• Languages and Literatures
• Philosophy
• Religious Studies
Natural Sciences and Mathematics
• Chemistry and Biochemistry
• Earth and Space Exploration
• Kinesiology
• Life Sciences
• Materials
• Mathematics and Statistics
• Physics
• Psychology
• Speech and Hearing Science
Social Sciences
• Aerospace Studies
• African and African American Studies
• American Indian Studies
• Asian Pacific American Studies
• Geographical Sciences
• Global Studies
• Human Communication
• Human Evolution and Social Change
• Justice and Social Inquiry
• Military Science
• Political Science
• Social and Family Dynamics
• Transborder Chicana/o and Latina/o Studies
• Women and Gender Studies
c. Provide training and templates for the maintenance of the department-level pages. (UTO)
d. Provide direct support and Web maintenance of the college homepage, CLAS core and
dean’s office pages. (PCG/UTO)
e. Provide varied support for centers and institutes depending on the complexity of the site.
The following levels will be provided:
i. Integrate the center or institute into the sponsoring department.
ii. Provide templates and standards for work that is freelanced. UTO and PCG will
assist with identification of freelance resources and provide coordination and
adherence to standards. Costs of the freelance services is the responsibility of
the center or institute.
• American Indian Policy and Leadership Development Center
• Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
• BEYOND: Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science
• Center for Asian Research
• Center for Bioarchaeological Research
• Center for Biological Physics
• Center for Biology and Society
• Center for Film, Media and Popular Culture
• Center for Metabolic Biology
• Center for Meteorite Studies
• Center for Population Dynamics
• Center for Research on Education in Science, Mathematics, Engineering
and Technology (CRESMET)
• Center for Social Dynamics and Complexity
• Center for the Study of Early Events in Photosynthesis
• Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict
• Consortium for Science, Policy and Outcomes
• Family and Human Dynamics Research Institute
• Hispanic Research Center
• Institute of Human Origins
• Institute for Humanities Research
• Institute for Social Science Research
• International Institute for Species Exploration
• Learning Communities Institute
• LeRoy Eyring Center for Solid State Science
• Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics
• Melikian Center: Russian, Eurasian and East European Studies
• North American Center for Transborder Studies
• Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing
Project Priorities
1) The approach to the project will be one of collaboration. The team will seek to leverage the best
practices and designs currently existing in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the
university.
2) The college Web site will be designed to utilize enterprise–level technologies and integrate with the
overall direction of asu.edu.
3) The department Web sites will follow a standard template for general navigation and flow. The
template will be designed to have some unique features (such as color sections from the university
color palette, graphics, and multi-media options).
4) A technical solution for creating and managing an online magazine will be identified and a template
will be designed.
5) Research centers and institutes will also follow a standard template but will be designed to have
some unique features (such as color selections from the university color palette, graphics and multimedia
options). Standards and templates will account for cross-university collaborations.
6) A general faculty Web site template will be created but no resources will be provided for
implementing the template. Management of faculty Web sites will not fall within the scope of this
project.
7) A system for accessing Web tools, standards and guidelines will be created. A UTO help desk will
be set up to facilitate technical questions, requests for modifications, access to tools and standards,
etc.
Project Phases
Phase 1: Give the CLAS Web site a Facelift based on the current structure and content.
Identify key stakeholders and begin meeting with them about design, content and technology
needs.
Build an updated design based on current content and structure to demonstrate an immediate
improvement while long-term planning and building is in process.
Build some “buffer pages” or content based on Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering and W.P.
Carey School of Business model (see below).
Begin to build a Drupal-based site to enhance content management and multimedia delivery.
Investigate faculty directory solutions.
Address the online magazine needs (how to deliver it through technology and how to design).
Design some basic common navigation and parameters for content delivered on the Web.
Phase 2: Core CLAS Website redesign and conversion to Drupal environment
Phase 3: CLAS Research Centers and Institutes Templates and Outsourcing
Develop basic design and content standards for research centers and institutes.
Identify external resources to be purchased by CLAS research centers and institutes to implement the templates.
Phase 4: CLAS Department Sites
Redesign and recreate 30 department sites in two batches, March 2008 batch and September 2008 batch. Some departments may choose to remain with DreamWeaver platform while the majority is expected to move to Drupal environment.
Note: During the conversion, department-level staff are going to be critical in maintaining the current Web sites and providing input in the initial design. They will also be utilized for the actual conversion and the maintenance of the
Web sites.
