This 171-page study presents more than 500 tables of data about college websites and is based on data from 68 North American Colleges. The study presents detailed data on budgets, software preferences, editorial control, staff size and composition, use of consultants, plans for website redesign, and a broad range of other issues confronting college website staffs.
The report helps to answer questions such as: What kind of disaster management and campus crisis policies do college web staffs have in place? How do staffs track end users, and how many visitors are different college websites attracting? Which college departments are most influential in managing and directing the website? Does the web staff consider itself in charge of content, IT questions, or both? How many individuals can enter content to the site without the permission of the webmaster? What role do social networking sites play in the college web staff's future plans? How often does the webmaster review departmental sites and how much control does she/he have over them? How often are major website revisions planned and how are the best results for end user "buy-in" achieved?
Available September 2007