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Joanne Vogel, the vice president of Student Services at the University, said recent changes to ASU websites are due to efforts to migrate to a different web hosting company. This project has likely been years in the making.
On March 14, Vogel said changes to LGBTQ+ web resources were a result of centralization.
"We had a lot of things that were scattered all over, so we did a full review and looked at where we had different resources and put them in a place that they were all centralized," Vogel said at the time.
In May, Vogel said administrators had not been instructed to begin preparing for the migration process when students criticized the changes to LGBTQ+ resources. Educational Outreach and Student Services was working to remove broken hyperlinks, microsites and PDF attachments from their web pages.
"A lot of it's about both our projection and getting to new students and families in ways that speak to them," Vogel said.
The upsides of the migration, Vogel said, were improved mobile optimization and updated language and information.
LGBTQ+ resources have been concentrated on the page for the Rainbow Coalition, a student-led group of campus organizations advocating for the LGBTQ+ community. Vogel said any resources which could not be found would be placed on that page during the hosting transition.
While ASU's web footprint has grown over the years, particularly with EOSS's expanded resources for marginalized student communities and the growth of the University population as a whole, the near future is meant to look more streamlined and accessible. Vogel said the project is intended to be complete by the start of the fall 2025 semester in August.