Official Advisory Committee Charge and Membership.

The Website Advisory Committee is charged with oversight of the evaluation, planning, site architecture and visual design, engineering and testing required to re-launch the www.ncsu.edu “core” homepage and top-tier sub-pages. Furthermore, the committee will be tasked with developing policy and procedures to govern the site and making recommendations for on-going workflow, updates and maintenance of the site post-launch.

The ncsu.edu homepage averages roughly 80,000 unique visits (and more than 4 million hits) per day and is the single-largest opportunity the university has to communicate with a varied audience of current faculty, staff and students, prospective students/parents, alumni and friends, corporate partners, media and the general population at large. The re-design and launch of the new site should reflect this great opportunity, building a site that is content-rich, visually dynamic, easy to navigate, uses the latest Web and multimedia technology and, in a broad sense, showcases NC State as the great university we know it to be.

While this committee will have primary oversight, this process should be transparent and include feedback throughout from the university community. Student, faculty and staff resources should be active participants in the planning stages as well as the development of design concepts, site architecture, programming elements, usability evaluation and launch. This committee will make recommendations to the Chancellor and Provost/Executive Vice Chancellor with an intended launch date of the new site prior to the 2006 fall semester. Following launch, a smaller, standing committee will be designated to lead the on-going oversight and policy of the central site and homepage.

COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP
Debbie Griffith, Associate Vice Chancellor, Office of Public Affairs (Committee Chair)
Tony Brock, College of Design
Lauren Broeils, Junior, Design
Jenna Eason, Junior, Textiles
Tilla Fearn, Director of Communication, College of Natural Resources
Dave Green, Director of College Relations, College of Veterinary Medicine
Kathy Hart, NC State Alumni Association
David Jolley, Associate Vice Chancellor, University Development
Tom Karches, Web Systems Administrator, Information Technology Division
Ron Kemp, Executive Director Creative Services, Office of Public Affairs
Kelly Lucy, Asst Registrar, Registration and Records
Jason Maners, College of Engineering
Brad Mehlenbacher, College of Education
Harry Nicholos, Assistant Director for Web/Unix/Database Services, Information Technology Division
Jordan O'Mara, Junior, Computer Science
Saroj Primlani, Coordinator of IT Web Accessibility, Information Technology Division
Michael Rappa, College of Management
Dee Shore, Department Head, CALS Communication Services
Jason Simon, Director of Marketing, Office of Public Affairs
Joshua Smith, Junior, Design
Greg Sparks, Director, ComTech, Enterprise Technology Services and Support (ETSS)
Jim Wilder, NCSU Bookstore Information Systems Manager
Alex Yacoub, Senior, Business Management