Thursday, August 5, 2010

New site to go live Thursday, August 12

We would like to introduce UB’s new website.  On Thursday, August 12 our current website will be replaced with a new, redesigned and completely restructured site. 

The primary audience of the new website is prospective students, with the goal being to enhance the experience our prospective students have so we can maximize our recruiting efforts.  The redesign will bring about an exciting new phase of our multi-channel marketing and communication efforts.

A broad-based group, composed of representatives from each academic and administrative department, has been working collaboratively over the past eight months developing the new site.

You can expect much of the content to be located in different places than the current site due to our restructuring efforts.  Much of the content that is not intended for our primary audience has been moved into the new myUB portal. 

Here are some tips that will help you locate some commonly used resources on the new site:

  • Administrative  and academic information and forms for current students, faculty  and staff can be found in the myUB portal at http://bridgeport.edu/myub     
  • The Campus Directory lookup has been revamped, and is accessed via the header on the  new site   
  • Webmail is accessed via a link in the footer on the new site
  • UBNet is accessed either directly via http://bridgeport.edu/UBNet or by visiting the “Additional Information For: Faculty and Staff” or “Additional Information For: Current Students” links off the homepage 
During the next couple of weeks, we will be making additional refinements and continue to review site content for accuracy.  If you find misspellings, links that are not working or any other error, please let us know. We’re pleased to share this exciting new website that so many have worked on with you.  If you notice anything  we’ve missed, please e-mail me with the issue.