UAF home page
June 30, 2016
The new UAF website that launched today looks great and clearly has been redesigned for students...this I have no particular quibble with. However, to have removed all easily accessible links for faculty/staff from the main front page menu choices was a bad move. The old version had at least the main links for our daily use right alongside those most commonly used by students. To have to go through several clicks to get to UAOnline, or to our office of grants and contracts (just as examples) is annoying. And what is this new design saying about the importance of faculty and staff to UAF? True, students should be able to find all of the information they need easily, but remember without faculty and staff, there are no students. It is a symbiotic relationship and the main webpage of our university should reflect this. A university is NOT a business where students are customers, and thus our university website should not be designed in the same fashion as those corporate websites which are trying to sell products. Please revise the main menu options to include faculty/staff — we should not have to type everything into the search box, or decide on the short list of quick links that drop down in the upper righthand corner. Thanks.