Met on Monday with Scott Cason, marketing director of the campus' office of enrollment management, and the office webmaster, Bonnie Gonzales. Scott had met with Jim Austin and Jim referred him to me since what he was interested in was setting up blogs for students. It sounds like Scott is interested in creating student blogs where our students can write about their college experiences and prospective students can tune in a get an appreciation of how great it is to be an undergrad at the UA. This is similar to what the folks at Eller are doing with the A Day In The Life Undergraduate Programs' blog and the individual student blogs the MBA program is using. The MBA blogs should be rolling out this week or next. I'm anxious to see how the students take to them. It seems like a great application for blogs and something I want to promote to the different colleges and admin units where similar interests are found.
