Campus Communication

LSU Athletic Director Apologizes For Airbrushed Crosses

The “Painted Posse” controversy has drawn an apology and a pledge from LSU.

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Little Lynn University Touted Civics Focus To Land Presidential Debate

Eager to raise its profile, tiny Lynn University touted its South Florida location and rounded up an impressive array of political heavyweights to help secure its long-shot bid to host Monday night's nationally televised presidential debate.

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Oklahoma State University Launches Web-Only Digital Network

OSU officially launched the site, called OState.TV, on Tuesday. The online network includes about 30 channels of content dealing with a range of areas of campus life, including arts and humanities, wellness and athletic events.

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Creating the Mobile Campus

A University Business virtual roundtable discussion, sponsored by Verizon

10 college and university CIOs from a diverse group of institutions around the country joined University Business on July 17 for an online roundtable discussion about bring-your-own-device (BYOD) environments, data security in the mobile age, the biggest challenges they face, and what it takes to create the mobile campus. 

University Responses to Bomb Threats Undergo Scrutiny

Shortly after 2 a.m. on Sunday, John Cardoza, the chief of police on the University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College, got word that someone called a national crisis hotline and declared his intention to bring a bomb onto the campus.

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Harvard Cheating Scandal: Communicating a Crisis

PR pro weighs in on university’s choice to release news of cheating investigation

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Harvard Cheating Scandal: Communicating a Crisis

PR pro weighs in on university’s choice to release news of cheating investigation

The recent buzz about cheating at Harvard—and the media storm that followed—may seem like bad PR, but it can actually serve as an example of just how to act when a crisis strikes.

University Of Kentucky, Louisville Flag Hundreds Of Words From Athletes' Tweets

Student-athletes at the University of Kentucky and most at the University of Louisville surrender their online privacy to their coaches under a social media monitoring system used by both schools and others across the country.

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The End of Online Writing?

Disruptive forces and their impact on content for the web

Can you remember the times when PDF files were placed (dumped?) on your website to make their content available online? As you know, those days are gone. PDF-powered websites just don’t cut it anymore—if they ever did. While the file format battle has been won on the web, the content format war is raging in higher education and elsewhere.

Are there any people at your institution who still see writing for the web or social media as a copy-and-paste job from your brochures, viewbooks, or other catalogs? Hopefully not.

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