UMaine.edu is the premiere Web site for the University of Maine. UMaine is located in the town of Orono, along the banks of the Stillwater River and offers a strong traditional education at an affordable price. UMaine help students create success stories – with a wide variety of programs and opportunities – and we do so with world-class faculty members, nationally recognized research; first-rate facilities; a friendly, safe atmosphere; and easy access to some of the best year-round recreation sites in the nation.

Why it’s in the Showcase: UMaine.edu uses WordPress MU as a customizable CMS and branding engine for the various departments and units that make up the whole of UMaine. The web development team is continuously creating new plugins and modifying appropriately licensed plug-ins to further the goals of UMaine’s online presence.

Queen’s College is an academic residential community situated right next door to the University of Melbourne. Its community consists of students (both undergraduate and postgraduate), tutors, professionals and staff. It also has non-resident members.

Why it’s in the Showcase: Queen’s College uses WordPress’ backend, along with Flash and JavaScript to create a seamless website that features both informational and news content.

UALR is a metropolitan university on the move, a dynamic learning institution where students find unique learning and internship opportunities provided through one-of-a-kind connections to the state’s thriving capital city.

Why it’s in the Showcase: The homepage of the University of Arkansas at Little Rock runs entirely on WordPress. Developed and deployed by the University’s web services team, the new site is an excellent use of WordPress as a CMS. The site uses links to manage the top navigation elements, and tags and categories for news and events. The top header image and sidebar are both managed with posts.

Philadelphia Neighborhoods is a publication of the Multimedia Urban Reporting Lab at Temple University. Each semester, MURL students concentrate their news coverage in a targeted Philadelphia neighborhood, and then service it with topical information and service news from the community–issues from the school lunch and the missing stop signs–to the people who seek to maintain a livable community. This MURL brand of news provides a form of hyper-local coverage missing from our urban communities: journalism street by street.

Why it’s in the Showcase: Temple University uses WordPress to provide up-to-date and focused coverage of a variety of Philadelphia Neighborhoods.

USS is the official student government of The New School. Elected from all divisions of the University, we are here to represent your concerns to administration, plan all-campus parties and events, make political statements, hear your issues, co-fund one-off events thrown by other people, and more!

Why it’s in the Showcase: The New School University Student Senate uses WordPress as a CMS to power its entire website, including officer profiles, agenda issues, and more.

Why it’s in the Showcase: BGSU is one of a growing number of universities using WordPress MU to offer a free blog to any interested student, faculty, or staff member.

The Wesleyan Argus is published by the undergraduates of Wesleyan University. The Argus is published twice weekly during the school year except in exam periods or recesses.

Why it’s in the Showcase: The Wesleyan Argus uses WordPress’ plugin architecture to create an issue-based workflow that lets the twice weekly newspaper of Wesleyan University push 30 to 40 articles live at any given time. The paper also created an issue designer that lets them choose which posts should be featured in any given section.

MIT 150 aims to capture the Institute’s unique qualities by involving the entire community in the interpretation and presentation of its most treasured objects. These artifacts will show what makes the MIT environment so distinctive and so productive of innovative solutions for the world’s challenges.

Why it’s in the Showcase: MIT is a world leading university and its MIT150 Exhibition uses WordPress to power a unique and powerful website that uses custom forms, commenting, and tags in a unique and creative way.

The Department of Spanish and Portuguese at UC Berkeley is a community of scholars that gathers faculty and students working across a wide range of themes and geographic areas. It counts with specialists in the fields of literature, culture, and linguistics.

Why it’s in the Showcase: The award-winning site for the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at UC Berkeley features an impressive design, faculty listings and weblogs, news, and more, all powered by WordPress.

The Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship blogs are a place to exchange ideas and opinions about corporate citizenship.

Why it’s in the Showcase: Any university embracing WordPress and blogging is notable and Boston College’s implementation of WordPress is well done.