Long Beach City College’s website should be a tool for current and future students to easily access information about the school and its features. However, the site’s excess of outdated articles leaves users in need for a necessary update.
A search for the term “campus” on the site shows an article from April 2017 as the second result. A search for “school” brings up a post from March 2017 as the first result, and an article from Oct. 2019 as the fourth result.
LBCC’s extremely outdated site is a disservice to those trying to find easily accessible and up-to-date information about the school.
Unfortunately, this trend is not exclusive to LBCC. Similar searches on Cal State Fullerton’s website pull up articles from as far back as 2006.
The overabundance of outdated information on the school’s website reflects a lack of caring from LBCC administration and a failure to ensure that current information and resources be easy to find.
Placing articles from six years ago as the top search result is confusing and unhelpful when attempting to find recent details revolving the school.
Additionally, making students scout through multiple search pages for up-to-date information is frustrating and unnecessary.
LBCC administration should take it upon themselves to create a better experience for those using the website.
Any articles containing irrelevant information should be removed from the website as soon as possible.
When using the search bar on the website, posts should automatically be ordered by date to provide students with the most pertinent information first.
Putting effort into creating a more convenient and accessible website will benefit LBCC students, staff and potential applicants.
LBCC cannot continue to ignore the obvious drawbacks to using their website.