Building and Supporting WordPress for Higher Education

The City University of New York has given rise to several WordPress Multisite installations including Blogs@Baruch, the CUNY Academic Commons, ePortfolios at Macaulay, the OpenLab at City Tech, and QWriting at Queens College. This session will feature a range of short presentations from people involved with these projects organized about launching and supporting WordPress at the university level. Topics covered will include server set up and installation maintenance, community outreach and support, and faculty development. The session will show that there’s a range of models for building at supporting WordPress at the institutional level. Presenters will include Luke Waltzer, Joe Ugoretz, Michael Branson Smith, Mikhail Gershovich, Jody Rosen, Christopher Stein, Matthew K. Gold, Charlie Edwards, and Jenna Spevak.