Giving back is what it’s all about. The Office of Development and Alumni Affairs goal is to facilitate these gifts. Their old homepage was not doing much as far as a call to action was concerned. A potential donor was confronted with a large photo, which was nice,  but then to the left was a [...]

One advantage of working at Wayne State University is the Wellness Warriors program. Its goal is the make healthier and happier employees by using the people and facilities we have to get them on a healthy lifestyle.
The program is a partnership between the Recreation and Fitness Center and Human Resources. Previously information about Wellness Warriors [...]

We are excited to announce the launch of the redesigned site for the Purchasing Department! Purchasing is one of four departments within Finance and Facilities Management. All four department sites and the main Finance and Facilities Management website underwent a major overhaul. The images above are a quick comparison of the old Purchasing site (left) [...]

We just launched the 2008 President’s Report Web site. This is the first time we have gone all digital with the report, no trees were harmed in the production of the site.
Some key features of the site include

A video introduction for President Noren
Rotating featured stories on the homepage
Clear design the highlights our campus and students

Transitioning [...]

C&IT recently launched a new dashboard for applicants to check their admission status. It allows them to see at a glance what they applied for, the items they completed and what they still have outstanding. I will post more about the actual dashboard later.
This morning I was presented with their default login page to bring [...]

For the past year we have been present on quite a few social networks. We started out with Twitter last year then moved to Facebook and beyond. We made it a point to not promote our presence on these sites and see how fast they grew organically.
Recently I have been going around campus talking with [...]

We are proud to announce the launch of the Commencement web site redesign!
Above is the visual comparison of the old site (left) to the new one (right).
Our main goals were to give the homepage a clean, polished, professional look that is inline with the University identity, and to create a site that would make it [...]

Looking for a place to eat on campus?
Well search no further, check out Wayne State Campus Map for food venues around campus!
If you are not familiar with our campus map, click here

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We just launched a completely new web site that strives to bring back great words. The site is called Word Warriors and it is in contrast to the Lake Superior State yearly list of banished words. We are looking for user submitted words and allow users to vote on the current word list. There is [...]

We just launched the redesigned Division of Research Web site. Above is the visual comparison of the old (left) to the new (right). The refresh brings the site into a modern look with university branding, simplified navigation and page structure.
Redesign Goals
The old site was one of the furthest away from the Wayne State branding. [...]