Digital Publishing workload and potential

We would benefit from having one to two interns or work-study students to help with digital accessibility. 

• • We currently have no one devoted to helping faculty with their materials, and no single person with the bandwidth to be our go-to person.
  • Ideally we would have one for website work and one for Powerpoints. The Powerpoint person would be a significant asset to faculty.
  • This would be a benefit to WSU overall—we would hire an undergrad design student or education major. They would learn the fine details and practicalities involved in digital accessibility remediation and compliance, as well as the workflow and considerations necessary in a production environment: how to design for continuous revisions, how to structure materials and style sheets to scale when upcoming projects are unknown, etc. 
  • This would be a temporary, remote, hours-based position.

A second web and digital publishing coordinator is necessary if we want to expand our reach. We are keen to use our unique skills to assist all teams in the college when it is needed, but our time is quite full of curricular work.

Moreover, having a second person would also help avoid failure if a member of the team were to have to go on medical leave or similar. Continuity and maintenance is vital on a project of this size.

Finally, a second coordinator would allow CBL to be split between two people. This would leave bigger chunks of time open for both coordinators to do deep-focus production work, which is much more efficient and consistent—it absolutely leads to better work that feels more satisfying besides—but is impossible when a day is broken up with other tasks. CBL involves a lot of communication and multiple rounds of edits on a relatively short weekly timeframe, which makes keeping blocks of time open challenging (not a criticism of CBL; it's just a reality to produce a high-quality publication).