Faculty Personal Websites

Carleton supports three options for faculty websites: Directory BioPages, Institutional WordPress, and CarlSites. For assistance on any of the below options, please contact the helpdesk. Faculty are welcome to create their own personal websites, but those would be considered Tier 3 sites and not supported by Carleton ITS or comms staff.

Directory Bio Pages

Recommendation for faculty professional sites

  • All Carleton faculty are provided with a directory bio page, which all faculty are strongly encouraged to complete and maintain. 
  • These sites include faculty title, department, courses taught, how long they’ve been at Carleton, contact information, and more, such as publications, research, CVs, personal info that you’d like to share, etc.
  • This is the only site option fully supported by Carleton Communications and ITS teams for setup, hosting, and troubleshooting.
  • Faculty maintain their own bio pages, which are easy to customize and update. Faculty can also designate someone (e.g., a department admin) to edit their directory bio. 
  • Faculty can add additional tabs beyond the basic bio (e.g. teaching, research, publications, recent activity, organizations and scholarly affiliations, and personal interests and projects).

Institutional WordPress (www.carleton.edu)

Recommended for long-term, collaborative, and/or community-oriented projects related to a faculty’s work with Carleton

  • Carleton’s institutional WordPress setup is used for creating and managing official department and office websites. Directory bio pages are a part of Carleton’s institutional WordPress.
  • For projects with a long life (5+ years) ITS and Communications can maintain the web presence in the centralized Carleton web infrastructure to ensure that security of information is in place, and that a consistent data management plan and backup system are in place.
  • Examples: Grant projects sites expecting to last more than 5 years, sites with a strong connection to community interests, research resources for a non-Carleton audience, lab websites (e.g., psychology department research lab websites)
  • Faculty are expected to manage these sites on their own, but staff in the Communications office are available for support as needed.

CarlSites (sites.carleton.edu)

Intended for temporary or shorter-term (5 years or less) web needs, such as course sites and academic or grant project sites

  • CarlSites is a web hosting option that affords a less constrained design approach with more visual themes and templates.
  • CarlSites are supported by the Academic Technology group in ITS. 
  • A good option for temporary projects, as web content can be downloaded and then transferred to another hosting provider if you should leave the college. 
  • Examples: Course-based projects, student-owned sites focused on academic content, web experiments
  • CarlSites fall under our Tier 2 branding standards, so we encourage the use of a CarlSite template. 
  • The Division of Communications can provide up to 3 hours of design and content strategy support for course sites and grant project* sites. We recommend budgeting for web design in grant proposals, if more support is needed.
  • ITS provides primarily technical support for CarlSites, including setting up your site and troubleshooting.