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Our Dietrich School communications team works with the Office of University Communications and Marketing web team to create and manage effective, branded, accessible websites. Working with the web team and utilizing the branded themes ensures that your website is easily recognizable as a part of the University of Pittsburgh. The themes also allow for ease of use by various audiences--visitors know what to expect and how to navigate various sites throughout the Dietrich School. Finally, working with our team on your website project ensures that your site meets the accessibility requirements mandated by the University. This allows every user the ability to access and navigate your site’s content on any device.

Website Requests / Updates / Maintenance

Digital Accessibility 

Review the Dietrich School of Arts & Sciences "Tips for Making Your Website Accessible".  For further resources, or to report a barrier, please visit The Office for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion's Digital Accesibility website. 

Web Standards

Learn more about the University of Pittsburgh's Web Standards from the Office of University Communications and Marketing here.

Branding

The University of Pittsburgh branding standards helps us connect with many broad, diverse communities through informed and relevant interactions.  Learn more about Pitt's brand compliance here.

Best Practices

When creating content for your site it is important to keep the various user audiences in mind. Our team will work with you to focus your content in the most effective way and will help create a plan to keep that content updated and relevant.

Dietrich School students are motivated, smart, and interested in diverse subjects and majors. The interdisciplinary options available to students is one of our greatest strengths as a school, and showcasing current students and alumni taking advantage of those offerings should be a part of the content plan we will work with you to create. Focusing your content on what your audience is interested in will ensure your site is a user-friendly and valuable experience.

These are some of the questions we will discuss with you to create your content and website project plan. How are you using your website to present your unit to:

Prospective Students

  • Can they find relevant information easily?
  • Are there profiles of current students and alumni who are using their degree in their chosen field?
  • Are there faculty mentoring examples to share or research opportunities to highlight?
  • We can work with the recruitment team to fine-tune messaging and identify content.

  Current Students

  • Can they find relevant information easily? If you don’t know what is relevant, ask! We can assist with focus groups, surveys, or you can informally have conversations with your students.
  • Are you course offerings current and kept up to date?
  • Are you linking to the correct page for major sheets? 

  Alumni

  • How can you use that section of your site to engage alumni?
  • How can it be useful to students? Where can a __ degree take you? Recent graduate employment?
  • Is there news to share?
  • Are there opportunities for alumni to work with students?
  • Would you like to invite alumni speakers to campus?
  • We can work with the development team to identify alumni or add a submission form to collect alumni info.
  • We can assist with alumni e-newsletters and help to craft an editorial calendar to determine if that is a good idea.