Higher Education Social Media Resources: Facebook's New Universities Page

Sep. 16, 2010

As Mashable mentioned a few days ago, Facebook has partnered with a social marketing firm, Context Optional, to build a facebook page dedicated to university resources for students and parents. As the page says in it’s about section,

“We started this Page to share our tips on how to best use Facebook as a student on campus.

This Page is dedicated to helping students establish an interactive presence on Facebook by engaging with their campus community.

We also want to hear from you, so please use this Page as a forum to discuss the unique ways in which you are using Facebook as a University student.”

The page already has almost 12,000 likes and a growing following of users that are commenting, and posting items to the page’s wall.

On the page students are able to find out about events, campus communities, deals for students and parents, and they are also able to post university related content.
According to Facebook, the page was developed to help get more student-created content up on the website and help give tips on how other students can and are using Facebook within their university community.

We think this is a great initiative by Facebook and there have already been some helpful information posted about everything from statistics on the amount of sleep students need for optimal performance to examples of how universities (like Kansas State) are using Facebook in the classroom. Check out the new page and let us know what you think!