Off-campus job listings get Web site
Joy Pavelski
Issue date: 10/25/07 Section: News
Hillsdale College students will see fewer e-mails about off-campus jobs from the financial aid office now that the list has found a new home on the college Web site.
"This is the last time you'll see an e-mail from me about off-campus employment except in limited instances," said Financial Aid Senior Counselor Jemie Hannon, who is responsible for maintaining the page. "I'm trying to keep the volume down."
The Web site comes amid ongoing discussions between Information Technology Services and the administration to streamline the college e-mail system and reduce spam.
When ITS revamped the college Web site this summer, they made it possible for employees to create and update portions of the site with nearly no technical knowledge.
"If you can send attachments through e-mail and type up a Word document, you can do this," said Jeff Yost, user services manager for ITS.
The External Affairs Office oversees the site's content and design, and grants web-editing permission to faculty in the various college departments.
"It is very difficult and labor intensive for any one department to update all the [Web site] content," Yost said. "With the new system, we delegated that to all the departments.
Every Web page has a designated person with authority and responsibility to maintain it."
Yost said that any college department could mimic financial aid and move information from e-mails to a Web page.
"Web sites with information alleviates the need to send e-mails specifically, but not
always," he said, "Because you can then just do both. It's up to the department to determine how they want to advertise information."
Rich Moeggenberg, financial aid director, said he has received scattered complaints when his office sent job notices in e-mails to the entire campus.
"E-mail was really the only solution we had except for someone coming in [to the Financial Aid Office]," he said. "The solution was the Web site, and it's up and going."
"This is the last time you'll see an e-mail from me about off-campus employment except in limited instances," said Financial Aid Senior Counselor Jemie Hannon, who is responsible for maintaining the page. "I'm trying to keep the volume down."
The Web site comes amid ongoing discussions between Information Technology Services and the administration to streamline the college e-mail system and reduce spam.
When ITS revamped the college Web site this summer, they made it possible for employees to create and update portions of the site with nearly no technical knowledge.
"If you can send attachments through e-mail and type up a Word document, you can do this," said Jeff Yost, user services manager for ITS.
The External Affairs Office oversees the site's content and design, and grants web-editing permission to faculty in the various college departments.
"It is very difficult and labor intensive for any one department to update all the [Web site] content," Yost said. "With the new system, we delegated that to all the departments.
Every Web page has a designated person with authority and responsibility to maintain it."
Yost said that any college department could mimic financial aid and move information from e-mails to a Web page.
"Web sites with information alleviates the need to send e-mails specifically, but not
always," he said, "Because you can then just do both. It's up to the department to determine how they want to advertise information."
Rich Moeggenberg, financial aid director, said he has received scattered complaints when his office sent job notices in e-mails to the entire campus.
"E-mail was really the only solution we had except for someone coming in [to the Financial Aid Office]," he said. "The solution was the Web site, and it's up and going."
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