Dave Lester’s Finding America

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.