I just got an email from Michael Dame, Director of Web Communications at Virginia Tech [I interviewed Mike last year for my UB column about website redesign], asking if I could pass the following message to all of you:
We are aware that countless IHEs have posted statements about the Virginia Tech tragedy on their websites. We’d like to build a page compiling links to as many of those statements as possible. We are so overwhelmed by the support we continue to receive, and we’d like to recognize that support on our website.
How can you let Mike know?
Just send him a quick email including the address of your web statement, so he can add it to this page including just 14 names of institutions at the time of this posting and put together by one of his colleagues at VT.
And, if you have time, post a comment as well to let us all know.
FYI, I’ve updated my previous post titled “Virginia Tech Tragedy: Crisis unfolding on the website homepage” with new screen shots of VT homepage including the latest “In Memoriam” version.
There are a lot of schools who have posted messages of support.
I just wanted to tell the students of Virginia Tech that on behalf of the students of the University of Pittsburgh, our hearts, thoughts and prayers are with you in this difficult time.
To show our respect and concern for those students, faculty, and staff at Virginia Tech who died Monday; to pray for families and friends who have suddenly been left behind; and to show our connectedness to a sister higher educational institution community, President Carroll asks that tomorrow at 10 AM a moment of silence be observed throughout the campus.
To mark the beginning of the moment of silence, the bells will toll.
A memorial service to commemorate the tragic events at Virginia Tech will be held on the University of Oregon campus at noon on Thursday. The event will include a candle lighting ceremony, the presentation of the colors and musical presentations. Thirty-three candles -– one for each of those who died during Monday’s shooting –- will be lighted and will remain burning for 24 hours. At noon on Friday, the university will observe a moment of silence followed by the ringing of the carillon bells.
There will be a meeting Friday at NJIT for the NJ college Presidents, acting Governor Codey and the State Police about issues arising from the tragedy. I hope that part of their discussions will be on the responses of communications & the web services (though I fear that will be missed in the focus on “security”).
Your blog posts are an excellent chronicle of that perspective on the events. I have passed the links on to our web services and communications departments.
Thanks, Ken.
As I said in my email to you, I’m relieved that your son is safe.
The flag on Gordon Hall is being lowered to half staff through Sunday in memory of the victims of the violence at Virginia Polytechnic Institute this week. We were all stunned and saddened by this unfathomable act and our hearts go out to all the victims, their friends and family, and all members of the Virginia Tech community.
Joseph Martin, M.D., Ph.D.
Dean of the Faculty of Medicine
Harvard Medical School