Students Wanted: Three Open Spots. One Great Team.
The Web Team is looking for three shining stars to join the team as Student Web Content Editors. These behind-the-scenes semi-pros keep utc.edu from turning into a digital attic worthy of Storage Wars, making sure pages stay polished, links behave, and requests don’t drift off into the internet void.
No previous experience? No problem. We’ll provide all the training, plenty of support, and a few good laughs along the way. Plus, it’s a great line for any resumé—nothing says “attention to detail” like helping run a university website.
If you know a student with a sharp eye, steady hand, and just the right dose of perfectionism (the kind who alphabetizes their apps on their phone for fun), send them our way!
A PDF Walks Into a Website…
What’s up with PDFs? It seems like everyone’s got one! During our big website migration, we discovered departments have been uploading PDFs like Oprah giving out cars—“You get a PDF! You get a PDF!” The trouble is, 1) most aren’t accessible (we’re fixing that) and 2) there are just so many of them. Old flyers, outdated forms, 10-page syllabi from 2012… it’s a digital yard sale out there. So, we’re cleaning house! Before uploading your next document, take a quick look at our guide on when to use PDFs, how to keep file sizes small, and how to make them accessible: Uploading PDFs to the Website.
Making the Web So Accessible, Even Your Grandma’s Screen Reader Is Applauding
Yo, the Web Accessibility Task Force has been out here workin’! We got every www editor trained up in Silktide—so now folks actually know what “alt text” is. No more mystery images named “final_final_reallythisone_108.jpg”.
We also teamed up with the Walker Center and threw down with those Making PDFs Accessible with Adobe Acrobat sessions. Man, the crowd showed up! You’d think we were giving away Beyoncé tickets.
Now we’re coming for blog.utc.edu editors—don’t hide! We just want your sites to play nice with everyone.
And after that, we’ll be checking every third-party thing UTC uses, just to make sure nobody’s out here breaking accessibility laws.
You got questions? Hit us up at [email protected]
Friday Night Lights (and Server Maintenance)
Mark your calendars, folks—on Thursday and Friday nights, November 20-21, 2025, www.utc.edu and blog.utc.edu are getting a little spa treatment. (blog.utc.edu gets pampered on Thursday so we don’t clash with the Chancellor’s Investiture Ceremony on Friday.) We’re talking fresh updates, fewer glitches, and hopefully no one accidentally deleting the homepage. Just remember: anything added to the test site during maintenance will disappear faster than your motivation on a Monday morning.
So, if you’ve been working hard on new pages, save them on the live site or stash them somewhere safe before the 25th. Pro tip: make unpublished pages on the live site, then publish them on the test site after we’re done playing digital mechanic.
Want the full IT maintenance schedule? Go check out the 2025 lineup—it’s like a rock tour, but with more patching and fewer guitars.