Fiscal Year 2021

Point of Contact: Melissa Chavira mchavira@nmsu.edu 

Authorizing Body or Offical: Vice Chancellor

Type of Board: Standing

Scope of Impact: System

Chair: Melissa Chavira mchavira@nmsu.edu 

Purpose:

Our website is the public face of the university and often the first impression people have of
the university, whether they arrive through a search, social media, or a print or digital ad campaign.
Governance provides a set of guidelines and standards to help site admins, communicators and others
with web responsibilities promote clear, consistent messaging and imagery across nmsu.edu and its
subsites. Governance also aims to ensure our pages are up to date and easy to navigate. The goal of the
governance board:
- Establish a framework of strategy, standards and policies for digital communication, including
nmsu.edu and its associated websites
- This governance framework will support protection of the NMSU brand and reputation, ensure a userexperience-oriented navigation, and ensure the most effective and efficient management strategy.
- Provides effective messaging to support strategic goals and areas of focus on high-quality content and
easily accessible resources and services for the NMSU community.
- The purpose of a digital governance is to empower units across the university to quickly create and
publish engaging, accurate, consistent, and relevant digital content that supports the university's
mission.

Authority:

The Web Governance Committee will identify strategic goals, assets and activities that are critical to the core academic mission of the university as well as to efforts that strengthen recruitment, advancement and research, and reflect the impact of NMSU on the state of New Mexico.

In the past fiscal year, what accomplishments have been made (if applicable)?  

Established ARP 15.81 – Web Governance, Developed Web SOPs, Developed
Cascade Migration Implementation and Communication plan, reduced threats to our cybersecurity
footprint by reducing the amount of public facing websites, implemented a fire-walled/SSO environment
for internal facing websites on WordPress.