FIT Web Content Policy 

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Purpose
Scope
Official and Unofficial Pages
Content Requirements for Official FIT Pages
Content Requirements for Unofficial FIT Pages
Policy

PURPOSE

The FIT Web Content Policy is intended to set standards for acceptable use of the FIT web structure, clarify responsibilities, and encourage accurate, useful, and appropriate presentations of information.
 

SCOPE

The FIT Web Content Policy applies to publication of information on the Internet and specifically to web publications. This policy applies to information:

• published within the FIT Internet domain (fitnyc.edu).
• published on servers owned by FIT.
• published elsewhere under direction or control of a FIT department, organization, or individual, where the contents are identified as official FIT information. 

FIT web pages are to be implemented following broad guidelines stated in Principles for the FIT Web.

OFFICIAL AND UNOFFICIAL PAGES

FIT hosts two categories of web pages:  "official" and "unofficial" pages. 

Official pages communicate official information about FIT or provide access to information useful to FIT students, faculty, staff, alumni, or affiliates and include pages published by or about FIT

• schools

•  departments

•  offices

•  centers

•  programs

•  committees

Official pages are reviewed and approved by the Office of Office of Communications and External Relations as well as the respective department/division heads, and are monitored thereafter to ensure that the FIT site is of high quality and that it functions well.

Unofficial pages include pages published by or about

• student organizations

•  individual faculty or staff members

Unofficial pages are not regularly reviewed or monitored.  However, all materials included in the FIT web must comply with the established rules and regulations of FIT. No unofficial pages may be represented as official FIT content.   

CONTENT REQUIREMENTS FOR OFFICIAL WEB PAGES

Official web pages must:

• clearly identify the name of the department, unit, or organization publishing the document

• provide a link back to the official FIT web home page

• contain a current email address of the author, owner, or sponsor of the information

• carry a date-of-last-update on the home page

• link to appropriate pages on the main FIT web site when referencing official catalog information (i.e. curricula, course descriptions, admissions and financial aid requirements) rather than repeating it

• adhere to FIT’s Web Design Guidelines for Official Pages

• adhere to New York State Technology Policy 99-3, Universal Accessibility for NYS Web Sites, which outlines techniques for designing accessible web sites, especially for the seeing-impaired who use screen readers to navigate the web

CONTENT REQUIREMENTS FOR UNOFFICIAL WEB PAGES

Unofficial web pages must:

• contain the name and email address of the page owner

• carry a date-of-last-update on the home page

• clearly feature the following disclaimer text on the home page, “The contents of these pages have not been reviewed or approved by FIT” or link to the boilerplate disclaimer at http://www.fitnyc.edu/information/disclaimer.html

Publishers of unofficial pages are encouraged to identify their connection to FIT. 

POLICY

Policy responsibility for the FIT web is assigned to the FIT Web Policy Committee, a standing subcommittee of the Web Development Committee, the membership of which includes broad representation.  The committee will oversee the FIT Web Content Policy, modifying it as needed to keep up with changes in the college and the web.