Cozying up to chaos and other life lessons: Getting started with governance in higher ed

“Governance” sounds like work. Like bureaucracy. Like “no.” It doesn’t have to be this way. Governance is most effective when it looks like help and sounds like “yes.” Governance should be empowering, enlightening, supportive of goals and flexible enough to allow innovation. But where do you start? How do you go from the Wild Wild […]

Building a culture of content accountability

For better or for worse (mostly the latter), distributed authorship models seem to be here to stay in higher ed, along with all of the risks that come with them: “zombie” content, accessibility issues, widely varying voice and tone, and overwhelming content debt, just to name a few. At Roosevelt University, we’ve done our best […]

Building a community of practice for digital standards compliance (it’s more fun than you think!)

When we revised our digital standards in 2019, our objective was simple: We wanted to compile our web-related policies and best practices in a concise and well-organized document. In doing so, we hoped to make it easier for our web management community to create better websites. Since then, this resource has grown to impact more […]