WordPress Multi-User on College Campuses

Institutions of Higher Ed are increasingly providing WordPress Multiuser as a blogging service to faculty and students. The most-developed examples are University of Mary Washington, Georgetown, and Harvard. But what other colleges and universities are using WordPress MU? What institutional groups are supporting these platforms? Are these campus-wide, or department-wide? After some serious searching, here’s my list of 69 institutions of Higher Ed currently using WordPress MU:

  1. University of Mary Washington (http://umwblogs.org/)
  2. Georgetown University (https://digitalcommons.georgetown.edu/)
  3. Harvard (http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/)
  4. Stockton College (http://titania.stockton.edu/)
  5. University of Virginia (http://clove.edschool.virginia.edu/wordpressmu/)
  6. Middlebury (http://blogs.middlebury.edu/middblogs/)
  7. SUNY Purchase (http://blogs.purchase.edu/)
  8. Cornell (http://blogs.cce.cornell.edu/)
  9. Capella University (http://blogs.capella.edu/)
  10. Rutgers (http://blogs.camden.rutgers.edu/wpmu/)
  11. NYU (http://itp.nyu.edu/blogs/)
  12. Wooster (http://blogs.wooster.edu/)
  13. University of Texas at Arlington (http://blog.uta.edu/)
  14. Wesleyan (http://blogs.wesleyan.edu/)
  15. Spring Hill College (http://departments.shc.edu/)
  16. Savannah College of Art and Design (http://blog.scad.edu/)
  17. University of Florida (http://blogs.uflib.ufl.edu/)
  18. New Jersey Institute of Technology (https://blogs.njit.edu/)
  19. Berkeley (http://blogs.ischool.berkeley.edu/)
  20. Elmhurst (http://blog2.elmhurst.edu/)
  21. Albion (http://blogs.albion.edu/)
  22. Valpo (http://blogs.valpo.edu/)
  23. MIT (http://dune.mit.edu/wordpress/)
  24. Baruch (http://blsciblogs.baruch.cuny.edu/)
  25. Plymouth State University (http://blogs.plymouth.edu/)
  26. (http://cesd.eng.uci.edu/)
  27. Loyola University Chicago (http://blogs.luc.edu/)
  28. Boston University (http://blogs.bu.edu/)
  29. Texas A&M (http://blogs.tamu.edu/)
  30. Bowling Green State University (https://blogs.bgsu.edu/)
  31. Lake Superior College (http://blog.lsc.edu/)
  32. Weber State University (http://weblog.weber.edu/)
  33. CUNY Graduate School of Journalism ()
  34. College of Charleston Blogs (http://blogs.cofc.edu/)
  35. University of Wisconsin (http://blogs.cofc.edu/)
  36. UCLA Library (http://blogs.library.ucla.edu/)
  37. Concordia University, St. Paul (http://blogs.csp.edu/)
  38. University of Maryland (http://blog.umd.edu/)
  39. Lupton Library (http://blog.lib.utc.edu/)
  40. Aquinas Institute (http://ai.edu/blogs/)
  41. Ogden-Weber Applied Technology College (http://owatc.edu/blogs/)
  42. Wayne State University Library (http://cgi.lib.wayne.edu/blog/)
  43. Vanderbilt Medical Center (http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/blogs/)
  44. University of Rio Grande (http://mu.rio.edu/)
  45. UC San Diego (http://blog.ucsd.edu/)
  46. University of Iowa Libraries (http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/)
  47. Eastern Mennonite University (https://emu.edu/blog/)
  48. Cape Fear Community College (http://cfcc.edu/blogs/)
  49. Boston College (http://idesweb.bc.edu/wordpress/)
  50. Illinois Institute of Technology (http://idesweb.bc.edu/wordpress/)
  51. Concordia University, Portland (http://blog.cu-portland.edu/)
  52. University of Akron Graduate School (http://blogs.uakron.edu/)
  53. St. Lawrence University (http://blogs.stlawu.edu/)
  54. Ivy Tech (http://wwwb.bloomington.ivytech.edu/blogs/)
  55. Columbia Law School (http://blogs.law.columbia.edu/)
  56. Valparaiso University (http://blogs.valpo.edu/)
  57. Ohio State (http://people.ehe.ohio-state.edu/)
  58. Wheaton (http://fred.wheatonma.edu/wordpressmu/)
  59. Saint Louis University (http://www.slu.edu/blogs/)
  60. Georgia Tech Savannah (http://blogs.gtsav.gatech.edu/)
  61. Albion College (http://blogs.albion.edu/)
  62. Surabaya Indonesia (http://blog.perbanas.edu/)
  63. Purdue (http://webs.calumet.purdue.edu/)
  64. Bryn Mawr (http://blogs.brynmawr.edu/)
  65. UMass Amherst (http://blogs.umass.edu/)
  66. University of Missouri-Columbia (http://comp.missouri.edu/blogs/)
  67. Macaulay Honors College (http://macaulay.cuny.edu/)
  68. Northwest College (http://commons.nwc.hccs.edu/)
  69. Kutztown University (http://blog.kutztown.edu/)

Blogs are being used in a variety ways, varying from building faculty and staff bios like at Ohio State, to allowing students to blog their college experiences like Saint Louis University.  Many of these installations look as if they’re experiments as well — many underdeveloped.  It’ll be interesting to see where this all goes in the next year.  Please leave comments with additional colleges using MU to help build this resource.

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25 Responses to WordPress Multi-User on College Campuses

  1. jim Groom says:

    Awesome list, what research skills you have! Amazing.

    Here is another list from a year ago by Mario Nuñez-Molina (you can see there has been a surge this past year):
    http://www.vidadigital.net/blog/2007/10/13/blogs-y-universidades/

    And I added a few to that list here:
    http://bavatuesdays.com/universities-using-wpmu/

    And a few more I know of that aren’t on these lists are Smith College (sophia.smith.edu/blog/), the College of William and Mary (http://wmblogs.net/), and Suffolk University (http://blogs.cas.suffolk.edu/).

    Man, this is getting fun. Gotta be over a hundred Colleges and universities at least playing with this platform.

  2. Luke says:

    Dave– thanks for putting this list together, and for organizing Wordcamped. Looking forward to attending and contributing.

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  5. Claudine says:

    The University of Melbourne (Australia)
    http://blogs.unimelb.edu.au/

  6. Ryan says:

    The Cooper International Learning Center at Oberlin College hosts WPMu blogs for several departments on campus … go to http://languages.oberlin.edu and check out the “Class Sites” tab.

  7. Dave Lester says:

    Thanks for your help, Ryan and Claudine!

  8. Barbara says:

    We use WPMu for our class blogs…and our dept website

    http://languages.oberlin.edu

    Click on Class Sites for a look-see

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  10. Andrew says:

    This is a wonderful resource, Dave — many thanks! btw, Jim Groom (see comment above) and Gardner Campbell gave a fantastic presentation about umwblogs at EDUCAUSE 2008. Well worth a look.

  11. Arno Bosse says:

    MuWP is also being heavily used in the Humanities Division at the University of Chicago as a kind of ersatz CMS.. we use Mu sites for conferences, graduate workshops, small academic units etc. 50+ sites to date and growing.

  12. Arno Bosse says:

    Forgot to add a link – here’s a more or less recent catalog of the blogs in the Humanities Division at the UofC.

    http://humanities.uchicago.edu/blogs/

  13. Joss Winn says:

    The University of Lincoln, UK, has a growing WPMU installation:

    http://learninglab.lincoln.ac.uk/blogs/

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  15. Sue Maberry says:

    Otis College of Art and Design also uses it. Next, we want to add a feed from student blogs to our site.

  16. Murdoch University Blogs in Perth, Western Australia: http://blogs.murdoch.edu.au

  17. Thanks for compiling this resource, Dave. Perhaps some or all of this information could be ported to Wikipedia? Certainly such a widespread educational movement (I’ll call it that–though I won’t call it “edupunk” :) ) would pass muster on the notability criterion.

    I should also mention that my new institutional home, Baylor University, is using a WPmu install for faculty/staff homepages. It’s lately grown to support groups as well. I’m putting the Academy for Teaching and Learning (a new program I direct) website on a WPmu platform when I roll it out later this month. So please do put Baylor on the list, too. Thanks. And thanks to Andrew for the kind words above! I hope to publish the audio from the session as a podcast later this week.

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  19. Aquamog says:

    thanks for the useful list I will be checking them out over the next couple days.

  20. Jim Taller says:

    Quite a big list, but how can you use it?

  21. Glenn says:

    We use at Miami University: http://aims.muohio.edu

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  23. Grant says:

    Brigham Young University’s Harold B. Lee Library uses WordPress MU extensively. http://www.lib.byu.edu.

  24. Jay Collier says:

    This is a great resource. I hope you don’t mind if I add these colleges to another list of WordPress in higher education:

    http://bit.ly/7yzmDy

    Best, Jay

  25. Jim says:

    The University of Maine http://umaine.edu/

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