By Sam Ingemie | Observer Reporter
During the April 19 Student Government Association (SGA) meeting, Sarah McMaster, Mount Wachusett Community College’s Assistant Director of New Media, dropped in to inform the SGA members of an exciting new prospect on the horizon at MWCC – a completely new website!
McMaster came to the SGA meeting to provide updated information on MWCC’s website redesign and take any suggestions from the members regarding the new site. McMaster said that she hopes she can use the SGA as a point of contact for communicating with the student body on how the project is going.
“We’re going to completely scrap what we have now and start over,” McMaster said. “I’m sure that’s going to go over well with some people – some people also like the website we have now. We’re going to build from scratch.”
Some of the information on the current website will not be touched during this project, but other pieces may be completely omitted. Constructing the entire website from the ground up will be quite a process in itself; techs working on the project will start with the main site, then follow up with other parts.
The plan is for the website to be up-to-date in terms of technology and to make it easier for the college to update all on what is going on. “One of the tools we are going to use to make that happen is a communication blog,” McMaster said. The blog will provide readers with updates on the progress of the project.
As with regular blogs, the blog regarding the project will allow users to post questions and feedback. “The feedback of the student body is very important to us,” McMaster said, “the website is just as much for everybody out there in the community as it is for you all, as you’re one of our main audiences. We just want to make sure everyone is in the loop.”
Rebecca Gilbert, a student at MWCC, said, in regards to revamping the website, “I think it’s a great idea. I think it’s cool that they’re going to have different sections for the different departments – it might be a lot easier for the students to see what’s going on.”
Furthermore, Sandy Arsenault of Student Services at MWCC said, “I think it’s always good to revamp something every so many years. Things have changed, there are new things on campus, so definitely it’s always good to update things.”
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