Printer FriendlyWeb Services launched blogs (or web logs) featuring current students and undergraduate admissions counselors in an effort to give prospective students and their families an “inside look” at campus life and the admissions process.
UMass Lowell is the first in the UMass System and joins the University of Vermont and the University of Connecticut as state universities in New England with recruitment-focused blogs.
The blogs are part of a larger “Web 2.0” approach to make the website more interactive and give a deeper understanding of the UML experience. Later this semester the website, called “Hawk Talk,” will launch featuring blogs, videos, chats, podcasts and other interactive media.
Web Services plans to rollout the blogging software, Moveable Type by SixApart, to other departments across campus next fall to enable faculty and staff to communicate with alumni, current students and researchers.
Read the blogs at www.uml.edu/hawktalk.