About Web Steering
The Web Steering Committee is a campus-level committee that provides direction and oversight in daily presentation of UC Santa Cruz through its web presence. The committee connects the campus vision and goals for web presence to the tools, services, information architecture, and standards necessary to achieve the desired state. Web Steering develops policies, standards, and implementation plans for campus adoption.
Schedule: The Web Steering Committee meets twice monthly. For scheduling and committee documents, please contact Teresa Silva.
Co-Chaired by: Jim Burns, Director Public Information Office
Andrea Hesse, Director Academic Client Relationship Management
Meetings: Every other week
Topical Working Subcommitte(s): Work groups as needed
The Web Steering Committee is responsible for providing web presence direction and oversight for UC Santa Cruz.
The committee connects the campus vision and goals for web presence to the tools, services, information architecture, and standards necessary to achieve the desired state.
This committee is charged to:
- Provide campus-wide oversight for projects that create or enhance campus web presence
- Recommend projects in support of the campus vision for web presence
- Identify and maintain criteria for “official” UCSC web sites that would fall under content and usability standards
- Draft and propose web development standards to include accessibility, usability, branding, and information integration
- Assess and recommend a suite of tools to support the campus web presence; periodically review
- Regularly assess and report on compliance with standards across official UCSC web sites
- Report policy and strategy level issues to Web Program Leadership Team