A screen shot of the new campus calendar (beta version)

It’s been an incredibly busy last several weeks. Between juggling content writing, content migration, and setting up the technology to run the new Saint Anselm site, its been hard staying on top of everything. Over the past month and a half we’ve been configuring our new hosting platform with Rackspace. It’s a very robust hosting platform that will allow us to do a few things we haven’t been able to do to this point. The tech support at Rackspace has been great and they will provide us with another important layer of technical support for our Web site.

Last week we installed our new Ingeniux CMS on our servers. The new CMS comes in two parts, a design-time server, which is the server that stores CMS Web content and it is the software content authors and editors will access to edit pages in the new site. The design-time server then publish static pages out to a separate server called a run-time server. Changes and replication between the two servers are managed by peer-sync software. We’ve been hearing good thinks from the developers at BarkleyREI about the robustness of the new CMS.

Last week we also had our second walk through and review of all the new Ingeniux page types (Web templates) with BarkleyREI. It was very exciting to see everything coming together and to see just how easy it will be to post and manage content in the new CMS. The right column of the CMS will offer content authors many options from inserting photo galleries and video to pulling in Flickr feeds, YouTube videos, RSS feeds, and callouts to content on the site. Each department or section of the site will be able to have its own automated news and calendar areas. The new site will utilize a site-wide taxonomy (or keywords) allowing us to tag and distribute news content across the site.

The new site will also feature a vastly improved campus calendar, which will allow college departments to pull in events within their sites also using tags. I’ve included a screen shot of the calendar with this blog post and you can check out a beta version of the calendar at calendar.anselm.edu. Please note that none of the links in the header or footer of the calendar currently work as we still need to move the CMS to our Web server. The new calendar will allow visitors to subscribe to events, receive e-mail notifications and reminders, add to Outlook calendars, or bookmark an event to dozens of social media sites, including Facebook and Twitter. Both news and event categories will feature RSS, which will allow content contributors to syndicate content to any number of external sites. It’s important to note that a new campus calendar was one of the top three requests we received from students, faculty, and staff during the site discovery phase of the project.

Later this week, after BarkleyREI has finished running the site through quality assurance testing, we will start to build out the structure of the site (the site-wide navigation). Shortly thereafter, we will begin adding the thousands of pages of new and existing content that needs to be migrated into the new CMS. This is an enormous undertaking, one that will take several weeks to complete. At some point in the coming weeks we will have a beta version of the site available for the campus community to preview.

Lastly, we are currently behind on content writing, so this work will continue into the next several weeks as well.

This is the stage in a redesign project that is often underestimated, i.e., it always takes much longer to produce all the content you need to for the new site than you thought it would. The content includes not only page content but right column callouts, photography selection for galleries and headers, among others.

The good news is we have coded HTML templates for all of our major site sections, including our Gateway pages (Current Students, Faculty and Staff, etc.), for section fronts (department or section home pages), and lower level pages. Flash development for the home page and for the “Faces” feature is also well underway. Over the past few weeks we have been finalizing our Ingeniux site spec document, which details all of the Web development relating to the CMS. This development should begin very soon.

Last week, we signed a contract with Rackspace for Web hosting. The new Web hosting platform and configuration is very robust and will allow us lots of growth, flexibility, and adaptability moving forward. A big thanks to the IT staff and in particular Dolores Delviscovo, network administrator, for all her great work in securing hosting for the new site. Additionally, we’ve done initial configuration of our new Google Mini search appliance and our new Active Data Exchange (ADE) campus calendar. Additional work will be needed to integrate both site search and the ADE calendar functionality into the new Web site.

It’s been a very busy last couple of weeks.

Faces Overview
As described above, the “Faces” Flash piece will live within the right sidebar of select pages throughout the site. When clicked on, an overlay will open above the page. Each profile will include name, class year, major, a short text profile, and “Dig Deeper” links, which will link people to relevant Web pages within the Saint Anselm Web site. Each profile will include either a photo gallery of images (relevant to the person profiled) or a single video or audio/photo slide show.

Profile content will be managed within the Ingeniux CMS via XML to allow for easy updating and the addition of new profiles. This will also allow us to display a Flash alternative version of this site feature.

We’ve also asked BarkleyREI to allow us to use a basic taxonomy with the “Faces” piece that will permit us to display and sort the profiles by major so we can include them on academic major pages to highlight current students and faculty as well as alumni outcomes.

We’ve planned for three two “engagement” Flash pieces to be used on the redesigned site – “the Wall” gallery which will be featured on the college home page, a virtual tour, and “Faces.” Additionally, we’ve allowed for the right column of the CMS to be used for displaying Flickr photo RSS feeds, embedded YouTube videos, photo galleries, and related links (links to content related to the page being displayed).

Update 11/25/09: Given budget constraints and the large volume of work remaining on the redesign project, we’ve decided to push the development of the virtual tour off to phase two of the project.

Before I get into it, I suppose I should explain what usability testing is and why we are doing it (and why it is really important). Web usability guru Jakob Nielsen describes usability testing as “a quality attribute that assesses how easy user interfaces are to use. The word “usability” also refers to methods for improving ease-of-use during the design process.”

The aim of our usability testing is to evaluate the new Web site design and information architecture with end users. Up until this point we’ve followed industry best practices in developing our site strategy, the site’s information architecture, and in designing the user interface for the site. So each step of the way we’ve made numerous assumptions and usability testing allows use to get direct input on how real users of the site think and respond to the design, content, and how we’ve organized the site. Does the site meet it’s intended purposes, what is its ease of use (in particular sections or as a whole), are users in each group able to complete expected site tasks, are we seeing any trends from one user test to the next.

We are testing 5-6 people in each user group (or audience) for a total of 10-12 user tests. This is more than enough of a sample size to begin to see trends, something that Jakob Nielson discusses on his site in an article entitled “Why You Only Need to Test with 5 Users.”

How User Testing Works
The actual usability testing is done using Morae usability testing software. All candidates are pre-screened against certain criteria before scheduled for testing and then screened again by the test administrator just prior to their assigned testing session. Since this is human testing, all participants must sign a consent form before the test begins since the entire session is videotaped and all screen movements are captured. Test participants are compensated for their time. A observer, who is located in an adjacent room, takes notes during each test session. Test subjects are asked their general impressions of the new site and if they are familiar with the current site, their feelings on that as well. Test participants are then asked to complete a series of tasks, these are tasks that people in a given audience group should be able to complete easily. For example, for prospective students, we might ask them where would they go to request information, apply, schedule a campus visit, find a list of majors, etc. Surprisingly, you can begin seeing trends as early as the first 2-3 tests.

After all the user tests are completed for both groups, a highlights reel and final report is produced. The data gathered during this process then allows us to make changes to the site that address any shortcomings.

Based on the preliminary current student test results (from what I observed), the new site tested very well. The general impressions of the site we very favorable and in most cases, not what current students would have expected from Saint Anselm College. It will be interesting to see the results of prospective student testing and how that compares. Surprisingly, the current Saint Anselm College site tested very well with its current design and organization of information, with a few known trouble areas (or complaints), both of which we are addressing during this redesign project, specifically, a more robust campus calendar and search engine.

I’ll report back on this blog on the final results for both the prospective and current student groups.

What About Faculty, Staff, and Alumni User Testing?
At this time, we are not planning to conduct user testing for faculty, staff, and alumni. Some of this has to do with available budget and time in our project schedule – usability testing is expensive and very time consuming. We’ve chosen to test two important audiences this go around – prospective and current students.

Alumni have their own Web site, AlumNet, which will only be reskinned with the new design template (the navigation will not change). The faculty and staff audience, since they are a smaller audience and an internal constituency, can always be “trained” on how to use the new Web site if need be, something we aren’t afforded with prospective students. If a prospective student can’t easily find how to apply, visit campus, or request information, there are real consequences for this and an impact on the college’s bottom line given our heavy reliance on tuition.

Please keep in mind that the photos used in these design comps are only placeholders as is the Latin text used for filler. Also, we’ve overfilled the right sidebar to show multiple options available for displaying column call outs.

At this stage, BarkleyREI presented us with two unique design approaches for the level page templates. One design saw the color red introduced to the color palette (the same red used on the current site). After seeking feedback from several offices, we decided that the introduction of red to the color palette was a sharp departure from the color palette used for the new home page. So we have stayed with a mostly blue color palette in the level page designs.

Other Design Options We Considered

• Page Photo
  Have the photo at the top of the page extend just across the main content area (single column) or also across the right sidebar (two column). We chose to display a wider photo. The page tracked better with a wider photo.
• Navigation
  We chose to go with navigation presented in a larger font with a subtle divider between each page name. The other option we considered featured navigation in a smaller font and in a more boxy style.
• Right Sidebar
  Present the right sidebar in a more boxy style separated from the main content area or go with the blue to white gradient we ultimately chose.

Tour of the Level Page Designs

Header
The header, which includes the college logo, global navigation, and search engine are carried over from the home page design.

Department Name
This will be text generated. Initially we had some concerns about how longer department names would list in this area, since the font size for this area was quite large. So we asked BarkleyREI to play with the font size and also try some larger site names in this section as can be seen in the second design comp “Institutes, Centers, and the Arts.” We are satisfied that this area can handle short and longer department names.

Department Site Navigation and Page Titles
We opted for a larger font size for department navigation. We really like this. It presents and reads much better and should make getting around the site easier. With that said, the new site will allow navigation to extend down into the site five levels, which is a real plus. Our current Web site extends to five levels deep, but the navigation moves to the right sidebar and can be confusing. We addressed this shortcoming with the new site.

You’ll also see that we are using breadcrumb navigation in the new site (above the main content area). This will also allow for an additional means of navigating lower sections of the site.

Presented just below the breadcrumb trail within the blue bar is the page name. For added flexibility, the page name can differ from the name used within the site navigation. This is a real plus.

Large Photo
Each lower level site will have the ability to display a large two column photo (or to not display the photo). This photo will include a space for a caption as well. We’ve also asked BarkleyREI to provide us with a second option where we can display a static photo with caption and 3-4 thumbnails that will allow site visitors to click through multiple photos at the top of some department pages.

Middle (Main) Column
As noted above, each page name will be presented in white over the blue bar that extends from the main column over the right sidebar.

Also within the main column you will see a department news section and an events section. Each department site will have the ability to bring in college news and events within their sites. We will be developing a site-wide keyword taxonomy or categories for all site content that will permit the site-wide sharing of content. Gone will be days of having to enter content multiple times in multiple places – this will hold true to department news items and events. RSS feeds will also be displayed within the news and event areas.

Right Sidebar
Faces of Saint Anselm is a multimedia feature. When visitors click on the “Faces” call out, a Flash overlay presentation (aka lightbox effect) will open over the page and visitors can view profiles of students, faculty, and alumni. The profiles will be presented similar to how the stories are on the new home page – text and multiple photos or text and a video.

Videos and photos will also open up as an overlay and a Flash video player or photo gallery will be presented.

Super Footer
The super footer will be carried over from the home page and used site-wide. Included within the super footer is the “My Links” area, which will allow frequent site visitors to display their own custom links that they access often.

What’s Coming Next

• Several more page comps will be generated for additional lower pages and site features, including the Flash video player and photo gallery overlays.
• Usability Testing – we will be preparing to host BarkleyREI on campus in late October to conduct two days of on-site usability testing. We will be testing the site designs with prospective students, current students, and faculty/staff.
• Evaluation of the Active Data Exchange calendar, the new calendar application we will most likely implement in the new site. You can see an example this calendar in action on the NC State Web site.
• Purchase of a Google Mini Search Appliance – this will provide site visitors with a more robust search experience.
• Discuss and select site hosting – do we host at the college or with an external hosting provider?
• Ingeniux CMS training – I will be attending a week-long developers training in Seattle in mid-October
• Content writing, content writing, and more content writing… not to mention site photography and video production
• Finalizing site migration plan (from our current site to our new site)
• Lots of other big stuff and little stuff, which we won’t bore you with…

Until next time…

During this stage in the project, BarkleyREI presented us with four distinct home page concepts for review. Each concept featured a Flash multimedia area at the center of the home page focused on telling stories using video, photo/audio slide shows, and photo galleries. Based on the feedback we gathered during the initial review of the four design concepts, we narrowed our choice to a single design, what we are calling “The Wall” concept. We then made changes to the design’s final color palette, the number of stories presented, interactive elements, font sizes, logo treatment, etc.

“The Wall” Concept – An Overview

Site Navigation
The new home page design features three levels of navigation – (1) global navigation (Admission, Academics, Campus Life, Institutes, Centers, & the Arts, and Athletics; (2) secondary navigation consisting of audience landing pages; and (3) tertiary navigation, which in the design is located under the “Resources” drop-down menu.

Multimedia Area
The multimedia wall will be driven by Flash with stories stored and managed in XML. When the home page first loads, visitors will be presented with a large horizontal campus image – an image that provides a sense of place to site visitors. The single, large campus image will be randomly chosen on page load from a directory of 25-30 stored images. As the page loads, The Wall will be populated with the multimedia stories. We chose this route to avoid the dreaded loading… loading… loading… messages, which can often be seen in some Flash designs. Our main goal is to not annoy frequent home page visitors with an over the top Flash element, but to have the loading of the multimedia be subtle and load quietly in the background. As the page loads, multiple stories will load within The Wall area. Home page visitors can also be more selective and choose to only show stories relevant to the keyword filters shown on the page. In this case, we are using the keywords Do. Lead. Solve. Achieve., but the final keywords selected for this area will be different.

When you mouse over an image in The Wall, it will be highlighted and a headline will be shown. When you click on a story, an overlay box will open on top of the home page (important note: this will function differently than a pop-up window). Once the overlay box is opened, the box will present content featuring a video player and text, an audio/photo slide show and text, or photo gallery and text. Each box will also feature a “Dig Deeper” link area sending visitors deeper within the Saint Anselm College Web site. In the end, visitors can spend most of their time perusing the content within The Wall without ever having to leave the home page.

News, Events, Virtual Tour, and Featured Content
Directly below The Wall, visitors will be presented with news headlines, event listings, and a link to the new virtual tour or a featured college video. Both the news and events areas will utilize “slider” or “accordion” functionality. Featured news headlines or events will be open on page load and other headlines or events can be viewed by clicking the “+ View” link next to each listing. By clicking the “View All,” visitors will be taken to the new event calendar or the college news page.

Super Footer
The footer on most Web pages is underutilized real estate. So in the new site design you will see an expanded footer featuring much more information than the college’s address and phone number. The super footer will include lists of important links for prospective students (Quick List) and the campus community (On Campus). It will also include a customizable “My Links” area where where visitors can choose their own frequently accessed links to display in this area (set using a cookie). This will be useful to visitors who use the same computer all the time for accessing the college Web site. Lastly, the super footer will also feature links to social media sites where the college has a presence, including Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, and YouTube.

How We Got Here
To get to this point, we built upon the work that had been done during the previous information architecture, content outline, and wireframe stages (read this blog post for background) and these stages were informed by what we learned during on-site discovery and strategy. During each stage we’ve sought feedback from key staff and administrators. When it all comes together, a redesign project is really a series of building blocks with each new layer built upon the previous layer. And as is the case with any successful building project, you must start with a strong foundation before you build your main structure.

Kudos
We are very grateful for the work of BarkleyREI, our Web vendor. They have been a great partner to work with and we feel their home page design and the emphasis on telling stories really captures the essence of Saint Anselm College. We also owe a debt of gratitude to the many people who provided feedback on the home page designs.

Next Steps
We are currently reviewing wireframes for our level page templates (the pages listed in our primary and secondary navigation). We’re reviewing technical development plans, including discussions with our new CMS vendor Ingeniux, and have a finished content tracker for tracking the production of all new content as listed in our content outline, among many other things. We’ve also spent time recently revisiting the project budget and schedule, and planning for future project deliverables.

Lastly, we completed work on the home page wireframe, a visual representation of the home page we finish before we begin any design work. The wireframe defines what will go on the home page, including primary, secondary, and tertiary navigation, footer, call outs, search box, news and calendar listings, and multimedia features. Over the course of this work we sought and received input from several offices and have appreciated their feedback.

Overcoming Silos
Early on in our redesign project when we were selecting a Web firm, we received feedback from several companies that our Web site information architecture was strong, but was very siloed. We spend a lot of time on our current Web site directing visitors to one department or another for Web information. The thing to keep in mind is that our Web visitors should not have to learn our organizational structure to find information about us. With this in mind, we spent a lot of time developing the site’s information architecture to have it be more topic based and building stronger landing pages for the site’s target audiences – current students, parents and families, alumni, businesses and community, and faculty and staff.

It’s important to note that the primary audience for the college Web site is prospective students, an external audience that is least familiar with the college’s organizational structure and an audience where topic-based navigation is a better approach.

Next Steps
With the home page wireframe, content outline, and site map now complete, we now move on to the next project priorities:

• Home page design concepts - BarkleyREI will present us with four design concepts for review
• Lower level wireframes – defining what will be included on all landing pages and major sites linked off the college home page
• Content migration tracker – a spreadsheet tracking all content that will be migrated from the current site to the new site
• Site application inventory - an inventory of all scripts, applications, and forms that will carry over to the new site and require development or template skinning
• Ingeniux application handling - Determine which applications and functionality will be handled within the Ingeniux CMS and those that will require custom development.

We also recently installed a new CMS export tool on our Web server that will allow us to easily export all current CMS content as plain text in a directory structure. Pages in the new CMS will be coded to XHTML Transitional, so much of the formating on our current site will be stripped out to remain complaint with the new document type.

The CMS finalists were Ingeniux (based in Seattle) and Hannon Hill (based in Atlanta). Both CMSs have a strong foothold in the higher education space with hundreds of college implementations between the two companies. Both CMS companies spent a full day on campus in April where they met with the Web staff, key staff from Information Technology, and provided two-hour demos of their CMSs in front of our selection group.

We started the CMS selection process with a clear understanding of our CMS functional requirements and objectives. These were communicated early on in the Web redesign project in the original RFP and then again during the CMS selection process. Both vendors submitted full proposals, which covered in detail how they matched up against our functional requirements. Their on-site demos also addressed how each product addressed our requirements. Both Hannon Hill and Ingeniux met most of these requirements, but in the end, Ingeniux came out on top.

We spoke with seven colleges that are currently using Ingeniux (from more recent implementations to long-term clients of nearly eight years who have gone through multiple product releases and redesigns). In all cases, the schools were very satisfied with the Ingeniux product and with ongoing support, maintenance, and product upgrades (and the ease of upgrading to new versions).

Why Ingeniux?
What impressed us with Ingeniux was the usability of the user interface. It’s definitely a very easy system for content contributors to learn and use. This is something else we heard from the college references we spoke with and this is very important to us given Saint Anselm’s distributed workflow and content production by multiple departments. Ingeniux also offers very detailed and flexible content workflows for content approval.

Ingeniux’s Web editor also works on a PC and Mac and in multiple browsers, including Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Safari. It also does not require the install of a Web editor (it’s entirely AJAX-based), so long gone will be the days of needing to call someone to install your Active-X based Web editor.

Ingeniux also has a very robust taxonomy engine, which supports site-wide content sharing utilizing content keywords and tags. This is very important to make content easily shareable between department sites, e.g., if we produce a news or magazine feature, we should be able to easily share this content with an academic or administrative department (and vice versa). Being able to easily tag content is also important if you want to link to similar content of interest to Web visitors in sidebars or at the end of a page. For example, “Learn More” or “Related News” or “Also of Interest.”

We were very impressed with how Ingeniux easily allows you to share content in multiple lengths, e.g., some content authors might just want to utilize a headline in a sidebar, another user might want to use a headline and teaser text, and so on. This can easily be accomplished with Ingeniux.

Ingeniux is a “baked” CMS and publishes full pages out to a separate Web server verses being a “fried” CMS, which queries page content from a database each time it is requested by a Web visitor. Now there are benefits and drawbacks to both approaches, but a couple benefits of a “baked” CMS are that pages are served up faster and hopefully there is better search engine optimization (SEO).

Ingeniux also allows you to serve up multi-format output, meaning we can serve up PHP, ASP, JS, or ASPX pages through the CMS. This is a real plus and allows us more flexibility.

What also tips the hat toward Ingeniux is their commitment to ongoing product development based on the needs of their higher education clients. This can be seen in more recent offerings like their enterprise blogging platform (BlogXite) and their enterprise rich media module (PodXite). Both “Xites” are available as part of Ingeniux’s Developer 360 program, which we will be participating. Lastly, Ingeniux has also recently launched Cartella, an enterprise level social media/networking platform. We don’t plan to implement Cartella in our redesign project, but it’s great to see that Ingeniux has developed products in this area as well. In each case, these applications integrate with Ingeniux’s core CMS, so content produced in one is available for site-wide content distribution.

More information about Ingeniux will follow as we begin implementing the CMS. Thanks again for the efforts of everyone at the college, including the CMS Selection Group, Information Technology, and everyone who attended the on-site CMS vendor demos.

The BarkleyREI team has been a joy to work with. They have a very talented team and we are very pleased with the progress made so far.

Last week BarkleyREI presented their initial Web redesign strategy via conference call and Web presentation. We’re currently reviewing the document with internal stakeholders and will include an overview of the site strategy in this blog in the next couple of weeks.

BarkleyREI began their strategy presentation by saying the following:

“Arriving on campus we had certain perceptions about a small, Catholic, liberal arts college, but after hearing the many stories and experiences of faculty, staff, and students, you blew us away. Saint Anselm College is truly a special place. I want my kids to go there.”

So What’s Next?

As part of BarkleyREI’s work, we’ve asked them to review our current Web staffing level, how the site is currently managed and supported, adequacy of training provided to faculty and staff, and current Web budget. The goal of this exercise is to better understand the resources required to maintain and support an interactive, engaging Web site that incorporates multimedia technologies and content. BarkleyREI will present their recommendations to us later this week.

We’ve also asked BarkleyREI to recommend three content management systems (CMS), based on what they’ve learned during the discovery and strategy phases. In the coming weeks, we will seek the assistance of a core group of faculty, staff, and students to help us with CMS review and selection. The review and demonstration of each CMS product will be done through an open process. Once the CMS demonstrations are scheduled, campus-wide e-mails will be sent to faculty and staff inviting people to participate in each session. We’re also hopeful people will use the commenting features of this blog to provide feedback during the CMS selection process.

Despite scheduling more than three days of meetings, we are not able to fit in everyone we’d like this time around. Rest assured that we will schedule additional conference calls with groups on campus in the weeks to come. We will begin to schedule these during the week of Feb. 2.

A big thanks to everyone who assisted College Communications and Marketing with organizing these sessions. Your participation is critical for a successful project outcome.

* Please note that each of these sessions are by invitation only.

BARKLEYREI DISCOVERY AGENDA

BarkleyREI attendees: Paul Magnani, president; Amy Kern, account director; Erica Deitzel, director of user experience; Gabe Keller, directory of technology; Phillip Rhode, senior software programmer; Sarah Swartz, senior interactive designer

MONDAY, JANUARY 26

6PM
Welcome Dinner with President’s Cabinet
Location: Presidential Dining Room, Davison Hall

DAY 1 – TUESDAY, JANUARY 27

9AM – 10AM
College Communications and Marketing
Location: Joseph Hall Room 001

10AM – 12PM
Creative Communications Associates (CCA) Presents Research
Location: Joseph Hall Room 001

12PM – 1PM
Lunch with Communications and Marketing Staff
Location: Joseph Hall Room 001

1PM – 2:30PM
Admission/Enrollment
Location: Joseph Hall Room 001

2:30PM – 4PM
Current Student Group Discussion
Location: Joseph Hall Room 001

4PM – 5PM
Student Affairs
Location: Joseph Hall Room 001

5PM
BarkleyREI Night Free

DAY 2 – WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 28

** Some IT-specific sessions will run concurrently with other sessions geared toward BarkleyREI marketing and design staff.

9AM – 9:30AM
College Communications and Marketing
Location: Joseph Hall Room 001

9:30AM – 10AM
Instructional Technology
Location: Joseph Hall Room 001

10AM – 11AM
Meelia Center for Community Service
Location: Joseph Hall Room 001

10:30AM – 12PM
Information Technology Department
Location: IT Conference Room

11AM – 12PM
Dean’s Vision of a Liberal Arts Education
Location: Joseph Hall Room 001

12PM – 12:30PM
Lunch
Location: Joseph Hall Room 001

12:30PM – 1:30PM
Dana Center, NH Institute of Politics, Chapel Art Center, Institute for Saint Anselm Studies
Location: Joseph Hall Room 001

1PM – 2PM
Portal Overview
Location: IT Conference Room

1:30PM – 2PM
Career Education Services
Location: Joseph Hall Room 001

2PM – 2:30PM
Information Technology Facility Tour
Location: Information Technology Help Desk

2PM – 2:30PM
Internships
Location: Joseph Hall Room 001

2:30PM – 3PM
College Advancement
Location: Joseph Hall Room 001

3PM – 4PM
Faculty Group Discussion
Location: Joseph Hall Room 001

4PM – 5PM
“Portraits in Human Greatness,” Humanities Core Curriculum
Joseph Hall Room 001

5PM
BarkleyREI Night Free

DAY 3 – THURSDAY JANUARY 29

9AM – 10AM
Campus Tour
Location: Meet at Admission Office

10AM – 11AM
Tour of Goulet Science Facilities
Location: Meet in Goulet Science Center

11AM – 12PM
NHIOP Tour
Location: NHIOP, Common Ground Cafe

12PM – 1PM
Lunch at NHIOP With Faculty Research Center Chairs
Location: Anne and Paul Harvey Conference Room, NHIOP

1PM – 1:30PM
Geisel Library Tour
Location: Meet at Joe Constance’s Office

1:30PM – 2:30PM
Director of Campus Ministry – “Being Benedictine”
Location: Lower Chapel

2:30PM – 3:30PM
Monastic Governing Board
Location: Joseph Hall Room 001

3:30PM – 4 PM
Fr. John Fortin, “Who is St. Anselm”
Location: Anselm Collection Room, Library

4PM
BarkleyREI Departs for Manchester-Boston Regional Airport