The Bluefield College website has been remodeled and on Aug. 12 the college launched the site to better meet the needs of prospective students, current students, alumni, faculty, staff, parents and friends.
According to organizers, those visiting www.bluefield.edu will find an exciting new home page, which has been streamlined to fulfill several purposes.
“The goal of this web site renovation project has been to make the new site externally focused for marketing purposes, but also to make it as internally-friendly as possible,” said Crystal White, Bluefield's web project coordinator. “Statistics show that prospective students, both traditional and adult, go to the Internet first to research their college choice. With all of the great new technology we have installed on this campus, why would we want to be left behind when it comes to e-recruiting? It is now the number one way to start checking out schools.”
According to research conducted by Noel-Levitz, more than 80 percent of prospective students use the Internet as a tool in the college search. Fifty-six percent of polled students reported that they would rather look at a web site than read a brochure sent to them in the mail.
Quick links are available, White added, so that web users can get to key areas of interest on the web site, in the library and an online writing/tutoring lab. The web site, she said, also features an online bookstore and an area specifically designed for online giving.
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