Faculties and Schools

Note to explain Votes column: Maybe each of us could cast up to four votes (one per faculty only) as who we would prefer to talk to early. I have made mine by entering my initials in the right-hand column.

Faculty	Contacts	Key Notes	Comments	Votes
Architecture and Design	Fay Julian - Faculty Manager Francis Saunders - Web Publisher (main) above on maternity	One faculty site Two school sites Lots of visuals on site More discreet piece of work Their PG info has better structure They want to push academic profiles more Main web publisher on maternity so would have to deal with potential temporary member of staff? Duplication of news and events. Shared from school to Faculty site.	Content is more aligned to future content approach e.g. postgrad Does have separate sites for faculties and schools PS: Looks like a good early contender.	PS
Victoria Business School (Commerce)	Ann Thomson and Kay de Malmanche - Web Publishers	One faculty site Six schools Accreditation commitments Research split into - centres, institutes and chairs (chairs is unique to VBS) Teaching matters - all staff content
Education		One site which includes the two school sites NZROE is a research centre integrated into the site Te Kura Maori (school) - this has bilingual content as well as audio files Study information does not fit with the normal programmes and courses structure e.g. they offer programmes not subjects (major), and conjoint degrees at UG level Teaching experience - all staff content	Discreet piece of work, and the school information exist within the faculty site Will be getting rid of one of the school sites (Te Kura Maori) PS: Consider the desirability and practicality of timing our WIP work with this faculty to coincide with the "removing" of one school site?
Engineering		One faculty site One school site Faculty admin run out of faculty of science School site has integration of a wiki A lot of video content that is not currently integrated on the site Anything with the URL ecs.victoria.ac.nz/main is Wiki Wiki has been skinned to look like website	Will the wiki stay? PS: Maybe start by defining the purpose or need that it meets TD: I just happened to fall across this http://www.mcs.vuw.ac.nz/stat/consulting (looks as though the main page hasn't been updated since 2007). This has relationship to PhD/Postgraduate Research. Looks like there is a secure area for people to log in to.	PS
Graduate Research (FGR)		One faculty site Contains all PhD related content Has events - integration with Bungee Not a teaching faculty - admin based No specific PhD marketing material	Would we use a faculty site to deliver this? More administrative than marketing. Marketing for PhD is with the other faculty sites. PS: I am unsure exactly how/when their work applies to other postgraduate students? PS: Maybe best tackled in conjunction with Postgraduate Information, rather than as a F&S?
Humanities and Social Sciences (FHSS)	Melissa Gough - Web Publisher	One faculty sites Ten school sites (including NZSM - bespoke site, not currently using Victoria templates, but hosted on Victoria server) Lots of conferences so want conference templates, including online registration, abstract (documentation) uploads Wai-te-ata Press, Confucius Institute, New Zealand Contemporary China Research Centre, and IIML are separate sites in addition to the schools	PS: Do we offer good/solid conference functionality (or are we better integrating to others that do)?	PS
Law		One faculty site, containing school information Specific requirements the law school have to adhere to - need to confirm what Events - want to tag events run by the separate centres within the faculty	Discreet piece of work, and the school information exist within the faculty site PS: The one school one faculty relationship could make this easy for consolidation but learnings might not apply to other faculties.	PS
Science		One faculty site Five school sites Statistics, Mathematics and Operations Research also has a Wiki (similar to the one used by Engineering) Conjoint programmes with Education - not currently referenced
Toihuarewa		Is being merged into Maori at Victoria Need to confirm to what extent (if at all) they remain in scope PS: Seems like a good move. When would this happen and who resources it?

General comments:

Lower general skill level across faculty and schools in relation to web
They may not be aware of the full extent of scope of the WIPII work - i.e. restructure of sites and re-write of content
Does a student know what a faculty or school is (or differences) and do they care?
What do business stakeholders think the purpose of the faculty and school sites are, and how do they differ?