A Department Web makes the statement "We exist." 
More importantly, the collaborative creation of a Department Web offers multiple opportunities for communication and learning. These pages offer a rationale for creating a department web as well as practical steps to follow in the creation of a departmental website.

Benefits for faculty, students, and visitors include:

	a heightened sense of community
	increased opportunities for dialogue
	readily accessed delivery of timely information
	a valuable archive of department work
	a method to provide accessible training
	a supply of valuable reference resources
	a welcome for non-campus visitors
	a way to enlighten and advise students
	a medium to advertise courses and programs
	a showcase for student and faculty work