Aims Community College is a fully accredited two-year college nestled on 185 acres in beautiful Greeley, Colorado. Aims offers over 200 degrees and certificates from more than 50 academic areas of study. With more than 4,000 daytime, evening, weekend, and online course offerings each year, students are able to flexibly complete coursework part-time or full-time. Aims serves a diverse community of 8,400 students with an average class size of 15:1. Students like Aims because of the affordability, access to degrees that lead to jobs in today’s market, and the college’s commitment to excellence.
Aims serves a diverse community of 8,400 students with an average class size of 15:1. Students like Aims because of the affordability, access to degrees that lead to jobs in today’s market, and the college’s commitment to excellence.
Aims wanted to address the significant Hispanic/Latino population at the college by creating a Spanish version of their website to provide a higher level of inclusivity and accessibility. They also wanted a translation solution that was easy to maintain, and that could be implemented within a very tight time frame.
Hunter considered two other localization solutions. The first option natively translates content with a push of a button, but Hunter would have to manually go through and approve the translations every time in the CMS. This route would waste a lot of time and complicate the approval process. The second solution would take a copy of the site and host it on their servers.
"El problema es que buena parte de nuestro sitio web está protegido por contraseñas", explica Hunter. "Eso significaba que cualquier contenido protegido no se traduciría. Por eso optamos por Localize: fue fácil de configurar, permite aprobar automáticamente el contenido, puede modificar y ordenar fácilmente las traducciones y traduce nuestro contenido protegido por contraseña de forma segura".
"One of the most important features we were looking for was the ability to automatically approve and translate all the content on our websites." - Hunter Wilson, Web Manager
Aims Community College found Localize extremely easy to use. Hunter said his favorite feature is the ability to auto approve pending translations and modify the translations with the Localize editor. He’s also excited to use the document translation feature, where he can upload documents like PDFs and have them instantly AI translated for export again. As a busy college, translated paperwork is a must-have solution.
"El equipo de Localize fue maravilloso y nos apoyó en todo momento. Nos gustaría agradecerle a nuestra directora de éxito del cliente, Linda, por entender nuestras necesidades y dedicar tiempo a guiarnos en las cosas que podríamos haber pasado por alto", dijo Hunter. "El equipo de Aims también estuvo increíblemente ocupado durante las últimas dos semanas antes del lanzamiento y Linda hizo un excelente trabajo apoyándonos cuando fue necesario".
El principal atractivo para Aims Community College fue la posibilidad de aprobar las traducciones pendientes de forma automática, traducir de forma segura las partes del sitio web protegidas por contraseñas y solicitar traducciones humanas de forma rápida y sencilla desde el panel de control de Localize.
Aims Community College ya puede presumir de tener un sitio web de primera categoría que permite traducir rápida y fácilmente sus contenidos para el público hispanohablante. Una de las estrategias clave de la universidad es servir mejor a las diversas comunidades. Dentro de esa estrategia se encuentra el objetivo de mejorar la permanencia de los estudiantes y la obtención de los títulos de grados por parte de la población latina. Tener un sitio web multilingüe será una parte importante de esa estrategia.
"There has been a lot of excitement from the Center for Diversity & Inclusion Department on campus as well as the Latinx Engagement & Support Coordinators since the introduction of our multilingual website." - Hunter Wilson, Web Manager Campus Safety and Security page in English and translated to Spanish using Localize.
The website is the first impression for almost all prospective students. Having a professional and inclusive website sets the tone for the type of education they can expect and the types of professional interactions they will have with the faculty and staff at the college. Having the ability to quickly switch languages helps a student show off the college to a non-English speaking parent or help non-native speakers better understand complicated enrollment processes in the language of their choice.
Aims Community College has over 52% first-generation students and more specifically, their Hispanic student population stands at over 33%. The enormous success of this initial website localization confirms that Aims Community College will have a translation feature on the website for the foreseeable future.
