As an organization, WPCampus is working to produce high-quality, informative, and engaging content that provides value to the higher education community throughout the year (and not just at our annual conference).
To get the ball rolling, we are excited to announce an upcoming free event, perfect for anyone working with WordPress in higher education.
Join free online event on July 18
On July 18, WPCampus is partnering with Human Made to co-host a special pre-WPCampus conference online event, and we’d love to have as many of you there as possible.
Register now for free July 18 online event
Discover new ideas, learn from detailed case studies, and explore best practices as we celebrate the best of enterprise WordPress on a university budget. You’ll hear from WordPress experts at Harvard, Arizona State, UIC, Yoast, Pantheon, WPCampus, and more.
And if you can’t make it on the day, you can register for the recordings!
Save your spot now for this free-to-attend event.
Join us at WPCampus 2024 on July 31 - August 2
After July 18, join us in-person or online at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., for WPCampus 2024, our annual main conference event.
Register now for WPCampus 2024
The WPCampus 2024 schedule is online and available. This year’s program includes two workshops (on local testing and accessibility) and various case studies, panels, community discussions, and other great sessions focused on using WordPress in higher education.
Can’t make it to D.C.? You can register for a free online-only ticket and get access to the online stream and recordings.
Here are just a few of the higher-ed-focused sessions from this year’s event:
- Showcasing student work: Forging ahead with WordPress
- Understanding adjunct faculty needs in a student-focused Virtual Learning Environment - a user-centered design approach
- Block Less, Smile More: How St. Olaf College Cracked the Block-Hiding Code
- Ethically using student engagement data in WordPress
- Permissions aren't enough: Roles and responsibilities for higher ed web governance
- Should I Stay or Should I Go? The Questions Around Outsourcing Your Hosting
Join our monthly accessibility discussions
Starting in July, WPCampus will begin hosting monthly community discussions focused on digital accessibility. The discussions will take place on the second Wednesday of each month at 1 p.m. Eastern time.
Register for the monthly accessibility discussions
These discussions will be a relaxed/informal gathering where participants can ask questions, discuss relevant topics, showcase their work, network, and actively participate in our collective learning.
For our July 10 discussion, we will have a special guest: Brian DeConinck! You may remember Brian from his work with WPCampus for the Gutenberg accessibility audit. Brian is now a Platform Governance Accessibility Specialist for the US Department of Veterans Affairs.
Brian shared with us the following description for his discussion:
“How you ask for information can create — or remove — accessibility barriers! The US Department of Veterans Affairs sponsored a series of usability studies with Veterans who use assistive tech to better understand how users approach complex form workflows. Join friend of WPCampus and higher ed alum Brian DeConinck as he shares lessons learned in form design from his work with the VA.”
The discussions will take place in Zoom. Registering for the discussions is required. You can register for each month and receive reminders through Zoom. We hope you can join us!