Working With the James Millikin Homestead

Senior Consultants Alex Pratt, Mikayla Krieger, and Ben Maynard present their research to The Millikin Homestead.

About the James Millikin Homestead

The James Millikin Homestead is the historic residence of James Millikin, founder of Millikin University, and his wife Ann Millikin. The Homestead, a not for profit organization, runs several events and tours of the residence in order to preserve the home and its legacy. Because the Homestead has an extensive amount of regular donors and members, Homestead board members reached out to MUPC to help them find a donor/member management software. 

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Semester Wrap Up: What to Expect in the Spring

After a semester of new challenges and new successes, it’s time to wrap things up until the Spring! Last Thursday, the MUPC consultants gave their semester overview presentation to the Advisory Board. After receiving feedback from audience members, as well as taking the time to think about the Fall semester individually, it was time to begin planning for the Spring. MUPC consultants and Faculty Advisory, RJ Podeschi, spent the final class period evaluating what went well this semester and what can be improved in the Spring (as seen in the picture above). Here are three things you can expect for the Spring semester of MUPC:

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“A Few Snippets of Code Can Make All the Difference”

Tom Emola presenting on the topic of Website Accessibility to MUPC Consultants
Tom Emola, MUPC and Millikin Alum, presenting on the topic of Website Accessibility to MUPC Consultants.

What is Website Accessibility? 

When you think of “accessibility” the first thing that comes to mind might be wheelchair ramps or screen readers, but have you ever thought of website accessibility? Accessibility Coach, Tom Emola, explained how properly coded websites allow all users to navigate and experience a website to the fullest extent. This means making sure that at all types of digital content including Word, PowerPoint, Excel, PDFs, eBooks, & multimedia content, are accessible on your website. What many people are unaware of is how many different disabilities website accessibility affects. The disabilities impacted by this include cognitive disabilities, voice disabilities, hearing disabilities, seeing disabilities, motor impairments, or a combination of these disabilities. For example, an individual who is color blind may not be able to see the text on a page due to the color contrasts, or an individual who is blind may not be able to receive the same experience from a picture because there is no alternate text. Simple elements of a website that many people are able to enjoy without the use of special features, others are not. 

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