While UMR will officially become MST on January 1st, the new website has just been launched and is now live at www.mst.edu (read my previous post about the topic).
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This morning, I asked Andrew Careaga, director of communications at Missouri S&T, why they decided to do the switch today, just before the holiday break and how they planned to promote the redesigned website to target audiences:
We wanted to take advantage of the break between semesters to give us the chance to test the redesign before we officially become Missouri S&T on Jan. 1. We have been promoting the new design internally as part of the name change process, via email notices to students, faculty and staff; references on the Name Change Conversations blog and our IT staff’s IT Press blog, where they’re liveblogging the switchover today; and a few presentations on campus to different groups. We also will issue and post a news release about the new design and post more on Name Change Conversations.