Higher Ed Website Governance: Eliminating Departmental Sprawl Without Slowing Teams Down

Send us Fan Mail Universities and colleges rarely plan to create website sprawl. It develops gradually. A research center needs a website before a grant deadline. An academic department wants more control over its content. An alumni organization hires an outside agency. A student program opens a separate hosting account because central IT cannot provision a site quickly enough. Over time, the institution’s digital presence can become a fragmented collection of departmental websites, subdomain...