Digital Collegium

09/03/2026

Please join us in welcoming Digital Collegium’s newly elected officers!

Shelley Keith-Panulla will serve as vice president, Tiffany Broadbent Beker as secretary, Mark Nakamura as treasurer and Amanda Coltri as parliamentarian.

We’re also grateful to outgoing officers Janice Cheng, Robert Heyser and Eric Sembrat for their dedicated service and contributions to the Digital Collegium community.

Get to know our new officers and learn more about the experience they bring to their roles: https://link.digicol.org/

Two trends from Digital Collegium’s Dev Summit: embracing native capabilities over heavy engineering and prioritizing speed and accessibility as a core user experience.

08/31/2026

What if AI could help you create content faster — without making your institution sound like everyone else?

Join Brian Piper from AIreFlow Solutions for "Better, not just faster: An AI workflow that protects your institutional voice." Learn how to build a "Voice Architecture," a documented system that captures your institution's stories, language patterns, tone and editorial perspective so it can inform AI-assisted content rather than be erased by it.

Part of the AI Track at our Content Marketing Summit coming up on September 15! Read more and learn about other great sessions at https://events.digicol.org/cmsummit26/schedule!

✨ Perfect for web, marketing, communications and digital strategy professionals looking to better understand content reuse and personalization in the AI era. Register to join us!

08/28/2026

Universities often treat recruitment like a high-budget film premiere 🎥, but retention can feel more like a trip to the DMV 🪪.

Join Toni Perilli of Fordham University, 2025 AMA Emerging Marketer Finalist, for The experience-led lifecycle: Transforming operational friction into higher student retention. Learn how to bridge the gap between high-level brand strategy and operational reality through accessible, scalable tactics. At Fordham’s Career Center, Toni Marie reimagined email strategy, voice and the role of resource repositories, humanizing functionality into high-touch guest relations and on-demand video libraries.

Part of the Content Strategy Track at our Content Marketing Summit on September 15! Read more and learn about other great sessions at https://events.digicol.org/cmsummit26/schedule!

✨ Perfect for social media, marketing and communications professionals looking to turn data into actionable insights. Register to join us!

08/27/2026

What story is your homepage video telling about your university?

Join Joel Goodman from Squiz, Eric Sembrat from the Georgia Institute of Technology and Tryon Eggleston from Monmouth University for "Decoding homepage video backgrounds: What FAVBs reveal about university brand storytelling." We'll see what they discovered when they analyzed 775 full-width, auto-playing video backgrounds (FAVBs) to understand what these videos communicate about university brand image (UBI) and how their sequencing and pacing shape interpretation.

Part of the Storytelling Track of our Content Marketing Summit coming up on September 15! Read more and learn about other great sessions at https://events.digicol.org/cmsummit26/schedule!

✨ Perfect for marketers, communicators and content creators looking to elevate their storytelling strategy. Register to join us!

08/20/2026

Your brand toolkit shouldn’t just help designers. It should help everyone on campus communicate with confidence.

From audience mapping and messaging guides to accessible templates, social media resources and AI guidelines, Digital Collegium member institutions are building toolkits that make on-brand content easier for non-designers to create.

Our new three-part series explores how higher ed teams are turning brand guidance into practical, usable resources for the whole campus community.

Part one: Empowering non-designers through modern toolkits
https://link.digicol.org/2026/07/empowering-non-designers-through-modern-toolkits/

What’s in your institution’s toolkit?

08/18/2026

Modern higher ed websites don’t need more code. They need the right code.

At Digital Collegium’s 2026 Dev Summit, developers shared practical ways to build faster, more accessible experiences by leaning into what the web platform already does well.

From modern CSS and native browser capabilities to smarter caching and semantic HTML, the takeaway is simple: Less engineering can sometimes mean a better experience.

Explore the Dev Summit takeaways and learn how higher ed teams are modernizing the web: https://link.digicol.org/2026/07/modernizing-higher-ed-sites-with-native-code-and-better-performance/

Trends from Digital Collegium's 2026 Dev Summit included embracing native capabilities over heavy engineering and prioritizing speed and accessibility.

08/09/2026

Social Media Community Group Update:
Is AI helping or hurting the way we connect with our audiences?
Join Lehigh University's Jordan Gruber and Tim Cox on Monday, Aug. 10, at 12 p.m. ET for a community group discussion. We’ll talk about the big questions around using AI in social media while covering authenticity, ethics and trust. DigiCol membership is required, but free for those working in higher ed!

https://events.digicol.org/socialmedia/session/4369026/social-media-building-trust-and-transparency-in-the-age-of-ai

08/04/2026

Early-bird savings for the Content Marketing Summit ends on August 14th!

Don’t let the deadline pass you by. Register for the Digital Collegium 2026 Content Marketing Summit by Friday, Aug. 14, and save $20 with early-bird pricing.

Spend a day exploring how strong storytelling and smart strategy can elevate your institution’s digital presence. You’ll leave with clear ideas, new skills and inspiration you can put to work right away.

https://events.digicol.org/cmsummit26/registration

07/31/2026

🐦⏳ Early-bird pricing for the Digital Collegium 2026 Annual Conference ends at midnight tonight - July 31 EDT!

https://events.digicol.org/digicol26/registration?utm_source=digicol26&utm_medium=socialmedia&utm_campaign=two_weeks_early_bird

Whether you’re planning to join us in Pittsburgh or online, now’s the time to make it official. Register by the deadline to save up to $105 and start looking forward to four days of learning, sharing ideas and making memories with the DigiCol community.

07/17/2026

🐦⏳ The countdown to the Digital Collegium 2026 Annual Conference is on. Early-bird pricing ends at midnight Friday, July 31 EDT, and that’s just two weeks away!

https://events.digicol.org/digicol26/registration?utm_source=digicol26&utm_medium=socialmedia&utm_campaign=two_weeks_early_bird

Whether you’re planning to join us in Pittsburgh or online, now’s the time to make it official. Register by the deadline to save up to $105 and start looking forward to four days of learning, sharing ideas and making memories with the DigiCol community.