About the Pilot: The Pilot began January of 2008
The server blogs.cas.suffolk.edu hosts faculty academic, administration, research and course-related blogs for Suffolk University’s College of Arts and Sciences. The blogs are created using Wordpress MU and are supported by CAS Academic Technology.
The information presented in the blogs hosted here does not necessarily reflect the opinion and priorities of Suffolk University or its affiliated organizations. Opinions expressed in blogs are those of the individual author, not the University. The individual author is responsible for the information contained therein. If you have questions or comments about a particular blog or document, please contact the author directly.
If you wish to participate in the Pilot, the College requests that you familiarize yourself with the following:
This project was created in response to faculty requests to use blogs both for their courses and in the interest of research and scholarship. We are gathering information and extending the platform during the pilot and we are happy to respond to any needs, feature requests, or suggestions as we work to accommodate our users. Please visit the support section for more information and answers to frequently asked questions, or contact us directly.
In the future, we will be creating a directory which will show more of the public blogs found here, including individual, group, and course blogs. For now the most active and most recently updated blogs will appear on the right in the side bar.
We look forward to assisting the growing blogging community here at the College. You may register on the upper right to get a blog and begin using this platform immediately to explore its features and benefits. If you need assistance, or would like features not currently available, please contact us.
Pilot Expansion Exploration Begins March 2008
As a result of the overwhelming interest in and benefits from a university blogging platform expressed at the March 18th Web Steering Committee meeting, a Suffolk Blogs “group” formed to explore expanding this project beyond the College of Arts & Sciences to include more parts the university. More information will follow as it is available. In the meantime, you may email Susan Downing or Michelle Bolser for more information.
The College has received requests for blogs from all different parts of the university. Right now, this pilot is limited to the College of Arts & Sciences only. We look forward to helping others in exploring the potential ability to expand this pilot and its support beyond the College to allow for more access and even greater representation of the Suffolk University community. Stay tuned and we will keep you posted on the status of this exciting project.
Who else is blogging at Suffolk University?
There are many bloggers in the Suffolk University community but not all of them can be found here. While this list is not all-inclusive, some examples of other bloggers from the Suffolk community are outlined below.
The Sawyer library has a blog that we’ve been keeping up with for quite some time and enjoy reading!
The Admissions office features student blogs created by some of their ambassadors which help reach curious prospective students. Also, the Office of Graduate Admissions has a blog of its own. If you scroll down on the left bar, you will see the student contributors’ blogs. Students are from both the Business School and the College.
Web Services is setting up new websites for student groups which will have a blogging feature. They also have posted some recommended blogging guidelines to help out beginners, and the Suffolk University World Wide Web Disclaimer, which applies to blogs as well.
Some of our law professors are contributors to well known law blogs. You can see examples here and here.
Suffolk’s Career Services has a blog called CareerCompass.
Some Business School students in the Global MBA program are blogging. There are two examples, here and here, as well a student blog from the Executive MBA program, which can be found here.
