To the Editor:
It’s spring 2009, and I’m currently interviewing at prospective graduate schools. I use their Web sites frequently to inspect their faculty and the recognition they have received for their publications.
I recently went back to Fairfield’s own Web site to check out the publications of the faculty of many of our departments and was shocked to find that they’re missing! We just had Admitted Students Day a few weekends back and students are now deciding between Boston College, Holy Cross, Villanova and Fairfield, and our Web site is lacking from an information deficit.
Why would you choose Fairfield if our faculty seem to be doing nothing? That’s how it appears, and our faculty are some of the best in the nation. By the way Phyllis Braun, a professor in the biology department has done extensive research on Candida albicans, but you’d never know it from the Web site. It’s utterly disrespectful.
To current students who are outraged, speak up! I’ve been hearing so many complaints lately about the Web site (When you click on Austria for those who have spent their Fulbright there, Australia appears – ha! Geography anyone!?).
Also, when the Registrar and the deans of each department decide to change curriculum requirements for specific majors, someone should inform them that seniors have been grandfathered in under previous requirements, and the Degree Evaluation feature on Stagweb shouldn’t frighten them into thinking that they’re not graduating.
I sincerely understand that it is a brand new Web site, but these glitches should have been handled way ahead of time.
Admissions is trying to bring in prospective students so Fairfield will still be able to offer financial aid to those students who need it while maintaining enrollment in a recession – get the Web site to reflect our incredible institution!!
Currently Google-ing and using the PubMed database to find information that should have been on Fairfield.edu,
Carol Cirota ’09
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