Student Communications
Our Mission: To support the cognitive and psychosocial and spiritual development of our students through well-managed technology and effective communications, helping to bring simplicity and clarity out of complexity, and connections and continuity out of chaos.
What We Do
- We build, maintain, write, and edit websites (particularly this one);
- We provide digital signage (in progress across campus);
- We oversee the student forums and conferences on BUBBS;
- We help other administrative and academic departments get their message out to current students;
- We work with IMC, Campus Safety, Facilities, Mail Services, and IT in providing well-managed technology and effective communication for current students.
How You Can Help: Collaborative Innovation
We firmly believe that two heads are better than one, and 3300 heads (the Biola undergrad enrollment) is even better than that. Collaborative Innovation means that the best and brightest new things come about when ideas are generated, refined, torn apart, reassembled, polished, marketed, distributed, and celebrated by groups of people... lots and lots of people. The ivory tower is dead, long live the wiki.
So what does that look like? Bloggers. Videographers and photographers. Podcasters. Artists. Writers. People with ideas. People who want to look at others' ideas.
We are always on the lookout for those folks: writers, bloggers, video artists, and other content providers. Our goal is to keep this site dynamic and interesting, and that requires lots of content that is by and for students. You can help with that. If you have something that would benefit the undergrad student body, and you'd like a chance to blog for us, or just contribute a single story, or have a video or a podcast you're looking to launch... we'd like to talk with you. Contact John Tuttle via e-mail or at 562-903-6000 ext. 3855 (on campus ext. 3855).
Our Manifesto
It is clear that this generation of college students is the most media-savvy yet. Numerous studies have shown that they get their information primarily from the Internet, and expect the information to be attractive, well-organized, and easily understood; further, it has been shown that they often judge the quality of an organization by the quality of its website(s) and other methods of electronic communication. Further, contemporary students are service-driven; they expect to be able to pay bills, register for classes, turn in assignments, etc., at any time of day or night and without standing in a line or running across campus to pick up (or turn in) a piece of paper. And, of course, digital communities are no longer merely a viable alternative but are frequently the primary means of support and friendship. Read more...
