the premise is that a couple of people (more accurately, the CIO council) in the IT department said "I think future changes to the site should consider these po

the premise is that a couple of people (more accurately, the CIO council) in the IT department said "I think future changes to the site should consider these points". And academia generally does have websites per department. - - - Realistically, almost anyone at any university can put content onto university websites / servers. This isn't some crazy notion of website usage: the same applies to this very site too.