CMS Migration Project
Baylor University’s mission is to educate students for worldwide leadership and service by integrating academic excellence and Christian commitment in a caring community.
Baylor’s existing web content management (WCM) system has served the University well for nearly 20 years, and with changing digital marketing practices and technologies, Baylor’s senior leadership commissioned a group to explore the future of WCM. This CMS Working Group (CWG) explored industry trends and searched for a new WCM system to enable emerging digital marketing practices for the foreseeable future.
The CWG unanimously recommended a cloud-hosted implementation of Acquia’s cloud platform which includes the open-source content management system, Drupal, and other digital marketing platform tools created by Acquia. The University will begin implementation of this new system in 2019 to serve as the foundation of Baylor’s digital platform.
On Dec. 13, 2024, the Drupal development team released the new Asides tool that will enable content managers to create callout boxes on pages, stories and events.
As part of ongoing Drupal improvements, tools for managing people (the Person content type) will be upgraded in the coming days.
Baylor's Drupal environment was upgraded to most recent release of Drupal (10.2.7) on July 11, 2024.
As part of regular Drupal updates, tools for uploading and placing multimedia (images, documents) was upgraded today.