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Ten thousand dollars

About a week ago, another school at this university invited my colleague in advancement to a meeting. The meeting, as it turned out, was less of a meeting than it was a sales pitch.
The other school, and the campus media office that works with this school, wanted my school to help share the cost on [...]

People still need tires: Why the web matters more than ever to higher education

My grandmother, my mom’s mom, was a 10 year old when FDR was elected. She grew up in a small town in southeastern Oklahoma; during the worst of the Dust Bowl her mother would spend the morning sweeping off the red dirt that had accumluated on the front step from the dust storms 300 miles [...]

How NOT to post your tuition information

During the last round of redesign, I removed the tuition information from the prospective students section of the website. The way the University of Washington handles graduate tuition had become so hard to grok that I didn’t feel like it was worth the risk of confusing them. As well, the individual program websites had tuition [...]

Making the UW Wireless Login iPhone Friendly

One of the things that annoys me to no end on the iPhone was the micro-mini sized button on the wireless network authorization page. I did some research and discovered a relatively easy fix. Since iPhone uses Safari and Webkit, you can use the Webkit-only CSS property -webkit-text-size-adjust to make the button larger — while [...]