Content Type: Directory (profiles)

The "directory" content type is used for faculty and staff profiles. Users are able to edit their own profile, or profiles can be edited by a designated website editor, such as an administrative assistant within a department editing that department's faculty profiles.

For more information on how to edit your profile, visit our how-to guide or watch this video tutorial.

View faculty and staff profiles on our directory.

Required fields

• Title
  • Should be the full name of the faculty or staff member
• First name
• Last Name
  • The first character of this field determines how the directory alphabetizes entries.
• Job titles
  • More than one job title can be included in this field
• Parent Department
  • This field determines how a faculty or staff member is tagged. For example, selecting “Photography + Film” will place this profile into the faculty roster of that department. Multiple departments can be selected for faculty and staff members associated with more than one unit at VCUarts.
• Email
  • This field is technically not required but we recommend including this. It should be a user’s @vcu.edu email address.

Optional Fields

• Featured Image
  • This should be a minimum of 280w x 360h px
  • Larger images are scaled down but must be portrait orientation and a .PNG, .JPG, or .GIF (no animation)
  • The VCUarts Communications Office has a library of faculty and staff headshots. Please contact us to see if we have images available. We also hold photo sessions several times a year for faculty and staff members to take new photos.
• Phone
• Office address
• Personal website
  • This can link to an external site, such as a professional or portfolio website, LinkedIn profile, etc.
• Curriculum Vitae
  • Upload a .PDF of a C.V. or resume
• Biography
  • For a text bio. We recommend 1-3 paragraphs in this field.
• Soundcloud iFrame
  • Paste the embed code from a Soundcloud account in this field to create a Soundcloud embed.
• Media Gallery
  • This is similar to the “media gallery” block on the pattern page
  • You may upload images or embed YouTube videos
  • Images should generally be 16:9 ratio, landscape orientation, high resolution and a .JPG, .PNG, or .GIF file
  • YouTube videos must be public or “unlisted”
• Recent work
  • This section contains several fields to link to scholarly journals, books, articles, etc.

Note: Please ignore the “category” options in the sidebar. This is used for managing editor access by the Web Team.