Sitewide changes to the "department" filter

[knice]

• Change the “department” filter label to “department & research unit”

Add to our “department filters” site wide:

• Institute of Marine Sciences
• Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics
• UC Observatories

[Herm71]

Let's discuss this:

On the Degree programs page we have both "Department" and "Program" drop-downs, as they are each separate entities/taxonomies -- a Program is the actual degree (Master of Arts, Bachelor of Science, etc) and Department would be the program's "parent," or more accurately, "relation" (Astronomy & Physics, Chemistry & Biochemistry, etc).

Moreover, the way we built the information architecture, a Department is intended to ultimately have its own page on the site, so Department is a Custom Post Type, which I loop through to display the Departments page (although we end up linking out to the WCMS version of the "Department") as well as to provide the select items (post titles) in the Department filter drop-down .

Therefore, I'm not sure simply changing the label to "Department & Program" is going to make anything better; in fact, I think it will provide an additional layer of confusion.

As for adding Institute of Marine Sciences, Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics, and UC Observatories, they can be added by anyone from the live site's dashboard by creating new posts. Again, however, we should consider whether an Institute truly is a Department and not, for instance, a Research group or facility.

[knice]

EDIT: Actually, let me think on this. Seems like we might be able to do this, but only with a nomenclature change.