Use of the term “faculty profile” can be confusing because there have been multiple solutions to hosting faculty profiles over the years. Right now at S&T, referring to someone’s “faculty profile” could mean one of three things.
Your Elsevier profile
Your primary “faculty profile,” and what most people mean when they say “faculty profile,” is housed in a system called Elsevier Pure. You can find these profiles by going to people.mst.edu and clicking “Faculty Profiles.”
Every faculty member should automatically have a profile in this system; however, they are not limited to just the automatically created information. You can also provide updates and edit the profiles yourself.
University Libraries (library@mst.edu) provides support for this system and content updates. If you’d like to change anything about your profile or get access to edit it, contact the library.
Your S&T Sites website
Your website here at S&T Sites can also act as a faculty profile of sorts. S&T Sites offers a faculty template to help you showcase your research, teaching, and other scholarly activity. Creating a site on S&T Sites is useful if you have more information to share than would comfortably fit inside the more formulaic style of your Elsevier profile. You can also link to your S&T Sites website from your Elsevier profile to help visitors find your full website.
S&T Sites is a self-service site creator, so you can create a new faculty profile site by clicking “Create a site” at sites.mst.edu. To edit it you can either return to sites.mst.edu and click “Sign in,” or you can type your site’s address followed by /wp-admin, like https://sites.mst.edu/example/wp-admin. S&T Sites runs on WordPress, which powers around half of all websites on the internet. Training material is abundant, but we recommend starting with BlueHost’s series of videos. For a quick introduction, also see our post on Moving to S&T Sites.
If you’d like someone else to assist in creating your site, you can also assign other users editing rights.
Your department’s faculty listing
The last place you may have a profile is on your department’s faculty page. This is usually a short photo and contact info section that may have a bio included. These profiles are hosted in a content management system called TerminalFour, and are edited by your department’s TerminalFour content author. If you’re not familiar with who edits TerminalFour pages for your department, reach out to websupport@mst.edu and they can get you in contact with the right person.