Valley City State University Mission Statement

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Valley City State University
Memorandum
TO: Jodi Shorma, Professor
FROM: Chelsey Olauson, Student
DATE: January 18, 2017
RE: Memo Report Assignment

This report provides three ways the VCSU website (vcsu.edu) supports its mission statement. The VCSU Mission Statement is "Through flexible, accessible, and innovative baccalaureate and master's programs, VCSU prepares students to succeed as educators, leaders, and engaged citizens in an increasingly complex and diverse society." Included in the main focus is the website’s innovative and user-friendly design, the accessibility of individual program specifics, and finally the simplified complexity that is the website’s strategy.
Design
The website’s design is singularly user-friendly and simple to navigate. Perhaps this can be put down to ease of use, but just to check, I assessed the University of Jamestown and the NDSU website. My conclusion is that VCSU’s website has colors that are easier on the eyes (UJ has a bright, blaring orange background, and NDSU’s is black) as well as clearer access points to all the important information. The main menu is atop the pictures seen centered upon opening the website, and the main menu with its submenus is also located at the bottom of the screen. There is not an overabundance of information that distracts. Therefore, the website’s design supports the mission statement through ease of …show more content…

The catalogue can be easily found on the website, as well. Specificity and up-to-date required courses equate to an accessible resource that is infinitely useful to planning or simply curiosity. The programs offered themselves are various and wide-ranging. Both the programs and the courses required being so accessible and clear support VCSU’s mission