Volume 93 • Issue 9
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November 15, 2024
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(Left) Paige Rainville and Emma Schor at the Nov. 13 Suit Jacket Posse improv show.
University launches new public-facing website
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MyFramingham moved to SharePoint By Sophia Oppedisano Editorial Staff Framingham State launched an updated version of its public-facing website, framingham.edu, along with a reorganized MyFramingham intranet, as part of a larger University rebrand this summer. The external and internal information housed on framingham.edu and MyFramingham, respectively, have undergone a design overhaul and reorganization. The cost of the framingham.edu redesign was $621,125, according to
Executive Director of Marketing and Communications Dan Magazu. Magazu was involved in the project as director of communications before being promoted to executive director of marketing and communications, when the website redesign became “[his] project” in May 2024 after Avril Capers’ retirement from the executive director of marketing and communications role. The public-facing content, meant to draw in prospective students and their families, is housed on framingham.edu. It was previously a page that served as a landing point for current students, faculty, and staff in addition to potential
BOT pg. 5 new students and their families. The choice to redesign the public-facing content for framingham.edu was a “University decision amongst the Board of Trustees and Executive Staff,” Magazu said. “It had been probably seven or eight years, and the old site was starting to feel a little outdated. Your website is your number-one marketing tool. It was important to get a fresh site up there,” he added. Magazu said the framingham.edu redesign project began in 2021 and took approximately three years to complete.
Speakers at Swiacki Literature Festival talk creativity and representation
The Swiacki Children’s Literature Festival hosted Ibi Zoboi and Duncan Tonatiuh as keynote speakers Nov. 7. President Nancy Niemi introduced the speakers. “There are not many universities that have such a deep and thoughtful celebration of children’s literature and illustration and their profound continuing effect on literacy,” she said. “Not just literacy of children and young adults, but of our collective ability to read the world of stories and ar-
tistic designs in so many different formats,” she added. She said though digital and video media has become increasingly popular, “there is still nothing like a book,” and she believes books have a power offered by “no other media.” Tonatiuh was introduced first, and said though his books are “very different from one another,” spanning a variety of genres - both fiction and nonfiction - “one thing almost all of them have in common is that they have to do with Mexican culture or Mexican-American culture.” He said he was born in Mexico City
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and grew up in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. “When I moved there, I didn’t know the kids in my neighborhood. I didn’t know the kids in my school,” he said. “What I did have was a school library.” Tonatiuh said he borrowed a lot of books as a kid, especially “choose your own adventure” books, and became interested in writing his own stories. He added he also became interested in drawing after his cousins would bring him comic books and he “had never seen comics, so I got really excited.
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