MIT Sloan Management Review leads the discourse among academic researchers, business executives and other influential thought leaders about advances in management practice that are transforming how people lead and innovate. MIT SMR disseminates new management research and innovative ideas so that thoughtful executives can capitalize on the opportunities generated by rapid organizational, technological and societal change.

This site is a fully customized news portal for the University of Manitoba. The new site allows University staff writers and contributors to publish new, relevant, and fresh content—including photography, video and social media. The site is fully responsive so that it performs beautifully on desktop, laptop, tablet and smartphone.

Why it’s in the Showcase: The challenge was to design and build a digital newspaper that could fully replace the the University of Manitoba’s current printed paper, “The Bulletin”. Because digital consumption of news now far outweighs its traditional printed counterpart, they chose a scalable and flexible platform to go fully paperless.

Georgia State’s website represents its colleges and schools, centers of creativity and discovery, and provides visitors an opportunity to discover how Georgia State has a major impact on Atlanta, the nation and the world.

Why it’s in the Showcase: This is a very large university and gsu.edu is a single multi-site hosting over 150 sites.

Nicholls State University located in Thibodaux, Louisiana provides unique educational opportunities and services to the people in the heart of cajun country and beyond.

Why it’s in the Showcase: Nicholls has a multisite installation with a custom theme based on a custom parent theme using SASS, Suzy, and a variety of open source software to create a responsive website. The Nicholls website is collaborative with shared editing responsibilities across their programs and departments, and took advantage of WordPress’ ease of use to allow a small development team to meet their needs.

Why it’s in the Showcase: The Boise State University is an excellent example of using WordPress as an enterprise-class CMS. The theme is fully responsive and optimized for screen sizes ranging from smartphones to desktops. The global navigation and emergency notifications are managed centrally, and updates are pushed out to over 200 separate WordPress multisite instances within minutes.

Why it’s in the Showcase: The UCF College of Medicine’s uses WordPress to create a website the emphasizes its high-tech learning environment. It features a custom theme, and customized backend to create a site that is easy to edit and maintain.

Why it’s in the Showcase: The University of Mary Washington site uses a WordPress Multisite installation with plugins created specifically to adapt to a multisite environment, custom post types to manage a document organization system and custom user roles for faculty and staff.

Why it’s in the Showcase: The Etownian is rated as one of the top college news sites in Pennsylvania, according to the Pennsylvania Newspaper Association. The site integrates the Livefyre commenting systems, social media, and a cleanly designed theme to engage students.

Why it’s in the Showcase: The site uses highly customized theme to create a powerful WordPress CMS providing a simple and intuitive environment for promoting the various programs and activities of the school. It uses a variety of custom post types and taxonomies on top of the standard pages and posts and multiple installations of WordPress to replace an archaic database of research work.

Why it’s in the Showcase: Drew University uses WordPress to fully power our over 140 sites across campus. The sites make extensive use of plugins and core functionality to provide a good experience for both users and editors.

Why it’s in the Showcase: UCF Today uses WordPress as a repository of news, stories, videos, publications and information about UCF from a variety of sources to share stories written by UCF authors from each corner of the campus.

The FIU College of Engineering and Computing (CEC) is the premier education resource in Engineering and Information Science.

Why it’s in the Showcase: Florida International University is a vibrant, student centered public research university, ideally located in Miami that is worlds ahead in its commitment to learning, research, entrepreneurship, innovation and creativity so that our graduates are prepared to succeed in a global market.

EIT is a tertiary education institute in Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand.

Why it’s in the Showcase: EIT showcases the custom content type features of WordPress 3.0, leveraging more than 6 custom content types, 1400 individual posts/pages/content types and countless amounts of post meta.

MU first offered up engineering excellence with a civil engineering class in 1849. Today, Mizzou Engineering excellence includes eight disciplines, 110 faculty members, 2,200 of the brightest undergraduates on campus and over 400 exceptional graduate students.

Why it’s in the Showcase: The University of Missouri College of Engineering uses a single network install of WordPress to host 5 of out of 7 of their academic departments. In addition, the site uses custom post types to create faculty pages that are organized by tags and provides a variety of content that is useful to both faculty and students. The site also pulls news using built in functions instead of MySQL queries.

UBC Blogs is going social. It is a site designed to support teaching and learning initiatives for student, staff and faculty for the University of British Columbia.

Why it’s in the Showcase: UBC Blogs is one of the biggest websites operated by UBC. The site has several thousand members and is a well-designed and well-integrated installation of BuddyPress.

For more than 175 years, Lafayette has been known for a spirit of exploration that ignores boundaries, where faculty work with students across disciplines to tackle challenges and solve problems. The ability to make connections and think critically is paramount—on campus, off campus and after graduation.

Why it’s in the Showcase: Lafayette College’s well-designed, easy to navigate, and website is powered by WordPress and uses a variety of plugins and custom code to handle a wide range of content, from static content to photo galleries, and more.

Wheaton College is a private liberal arts college ranked among the top in the nation. Its beautiful New England campus is near Boston and Rhode Island.

Why it’s in the Showcase: Wheaton College, a major educational institution, is deploying WordPress as its campus-wide CMS.

The Daily Cougar is the official student newspaper of the University of Houston since 1934, publishing daily during the regular academic school year.

Why it’s in the Showcase: The Daily Cougar uses a custom built WordPress MU installation to provide daily news to and host reader blogs. The site demonstrates WordPress’ capability to effectively manage large amounts of content.

The official website for the Admissions Office at Boston University.

Why it’s in the Showcase: BU’s admissions site is well-designed and integrates static content seamlessly with Flash and other media.

Boston University International Programs is the study abroad division of Boston University. Our job is to help students realize their dreams to study and intern abroad.

Why it’s in the Showcase: The site for BU’s International Programs features an impressive and easy to navigate design, video content throughout, and use of a customized taxonomy plugin.

The Harvard Gazette is Harvard’s official newspaper, highlighting faculty research, administrative staff, students, and events.

Why it’s in the Showcase: Harvard is the oldest American institution of higher learning and it uses WordPress to power the Harvard Gazette’s entire website.

The magazine for Vanderbilt Magazine – the “flagship” magazine for Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee.

Why it’s in the Showcase: The site uses unique templating extensively and is sent out to approximately 100,000 alumni each month.

The University of Maine (UMaine) is a public research university located in Orono, Maine, United States. The university was established in 1865 as a land grant college and is referred to as the flagship university of the University of Maine System. The university has an enrollment of over 12,000 students making it the largest university in the state.

Why it’s in the Showcase: The University of Maine uses WordPress to power a majority of its website, which was designed to be geared towards students, clear and easy to navigate, and interactive.

The Nieman Journalism Lab is a collaborative attempt to figure out how quality journalism can survive and thrive in the Internet age.

Why it’s in the Showcase: The Nieman Journalism Lab’s blog is a nicely designed, well-written, and informative blog that seamlessly integrates news and featured content with social media.

UMaine.edu is the premiere Web site for the University of Maine. UMaine is located in the town of Orono, along the banks of the Stillwater River and offers a strong traditional education at an affordable price. UMaine help students create success stories – with a wide variety of programs and opportunities – and we do so with world-class faculty members, nationally recognized research; first-rate facilities; a friendly, safe atmosphere; and easy access to some of the best year-round recreation sites in the nation.

Why it’s in the Showcase: UMaine.edu uses WordPress MU as a customizable CMS and branding engine for the various departments and units that make up the whole of UMaine. The web development team is continuously creating new plugins and modifying appropriately licensed plug-ins to further the goals of UMaine’s online presence.

Queen’s College is an academic residential community situated right next door to the University of Melbourne. Its community consists of students (both undergraduate and postgraduate), tutors, professionals and staff. It also has non-resident members.

Why it’s in the Showcase: Queen’s College uses WordPress’ backend, along with Flash and JavaScript to create a seamless website that features both informational and news content.

UALR is a metropolitan university on the move, a dynamic learning institution where students find unique learning and internship opportunities provided through one-of-a-kind connections to the state’s thriving capital city.

Why it’s in the Showcase: The homepage of the University of Arkansas at Little Rock runs entirely on WordPress. Developed and deployed by the University’s web services team, the new site is an excellent use of WordPress as a CMS. The site uses links to manage the top navigation elements, and tags and categories for news and events. The top header image and sidebar are both managed with posts.

Why it’s in the Showcase: BGSU is one of a growing number of universities using WordPress MU to offer a free blog to any interested student, faculty, or staff member.

The Wesleyan Argus is published by the undergraduates of Wesleyan University. The Argus is published twice weekly during the school year except in exam periods or recesses.

Why it’s in the Showcase: The Wesleyan Argus uses WordPress’ plugin architecture to create an issue-based workflow that lets the twice weekly newspaper of Wesleyan University push 30 to 40 articles live at any given time. The paper also created an issue designer that lets them choose which posts should be featured in any given section.

MIT 150 aims to capture the Institute’s unique qualities by involving the entire community in the interpretation and presentation of its most treasured objects. These artifacts will show what makes the MIT environment so distinctive and so productive of innovative solutions for the world’s challenges.

Why it’s in the Showcase: MIT is a world leading university and its MIT150 Exhibition uses WordPress to power a unique and powerful website that uses custom forms, commenting, and tags in a unique and creative way.

A publishing platform for the University of Mary Washington community.

UBC Blogs is an e-Learning initiative being spearheaded by the Office of Learning Technology at The University Of British Columbia.

A publishing platform for the academic community of the University of Calgary.

Universitäten und andere Bildungsinstitutionen leben nicht zuletzt von vielfältigen internationalen Kontakten zu anderen Hochschulen und Organisationen, die der Forschung und Lehre entscheidende Impulse geben. Blogs bieten in diesem Zusammenhang eine zeitgemäße Möglichkeit, Kontakte auf wissenschaftlicher und individueller Ebene zu pflegen, zu intensivieren und zu erweitern.

Universities and other educational institutions do not live as a wide variety of international contacts with other universities and organizations, research and teaching crucial momentum. Blogs offer in this context a contemporary way, and scientific contacts at the individual level to maintain, intensify and expand.

This Emergency Information Web site may be accessed via a link on Pepperdine University’s Home Page at anytime. You may wish to save the URL for easy referencing in the event of an emergency impacting Pepperdine University in Malibu, or any of its campuses. During an emergency, information on this site will be updated regularly to keep students, faculty, staff, and family members informed with accurate and current information.

In addition to briefings which are posted during an emergency, this site makes it easy for you to obtain the latest information or road conditions affecting the Malibu campus. In the event of an emergency, the latest information will be posted at the top of this page.

Personal staff and student blogs at University of Melbourne