The Penn State Harrisburg website serves a dual function, first serving as a significant marketing tool that encourages prospective students and families to consider choosing the college. Additionally, it provides important information to current students, faculty, and staff. The Office of Strategic Communications is responsible for seeing that both these purposes are met.

The office oversees the creation and maintenance of the official Penn State Harrisburg web presence, including academic and non-academic websites, as well as official social media channels. If an office, division, or program should either need to have a webpage or application created, updated, or redesigned, Strategic Communications will work with a unit representative to gather the requirements for the requested web solution. The office will then either create the entire page or application in consultation with the representative or will review an already-created web solution to ensure that it meets with acceptable design standards, includes required elements for a Penn State webpage, and is in compliance with all relevant University policies. 

It is the responsibility of each office, division, or program to ensure that the information found on their official webpage is up-to-date and correct. The office will update material when requested, but will not monitor its accuracy or currency.

Faculty and staff personal homepages are not the responsibility of the Office of Strategic Communications.

If new information is to be added to a page, the information should be submitted via the Web Update Request Form. If an existing page has grammatical or spelling errors, the errant text can be submitted through this same form; alternatively, a printed copy of the page can be submitted with the appropriate changes marked legibly in ink.

All official Penn State Harrisburg webpages must adhere to the following rules:

  • All webpages shall refer to the college as "Penn State Harrisburg."
  • All webpages must include the Penn State Harrisburg mark in the upper left-hand corner.
    Note: for specific size and placement information about the Penn State mark, refer to University policy AD54. The mark should be linked to the college's homepage, harrisburg.psu.edu, not to the university's homepage.
  • Additional header and footer regulations are outlined in University policy AD54. Note that these logomark and link requirements are automatically fulfilled by any page incorporated into the Penn State Harrisburg content management system (CMS).
  • Official content, especially of a curricular nature (e.g. academic calendar, SAPs, program requirements for admission or completion) should not be maintained by any webpage or website outside of the official Penn State Harrisburg site and/or the University Bulletin.
  • All webpages are subject to review by Strategic Communications prior to being linked to from the college's website.
  • The Office of Strategic Communications reserves the right to not link (or remove a link) to a webpage that is not in compliance with any of the above policies.