Carleton College

The Reason Team

Doug Bratland - Web Content
Matt Bockol - Web Technical Administrator
Mark Heiman - Senior Web Application Developer
Jaye Lawrence - Director of Web Services
Matt Ryan - Associate Director of Web Services
Nate White - Web Application Developer & Reason Lead

Nate, Matt Ryan, and Mark do most of the Reason development work. Doug and Jaye focus on content. Matt Bockol keeps the foundational technologies strong.

History and CMS Selection Process

Reason development was started by staff and student workers of the Web Services group in 2002.

In early 2006, the college accepted the Web Services group's request to release Reason as an open source application.

Current Status

Carleton has been using Reason in production since 2003. Virtually all offices and departments, and most student groups, manage their websites using Reason. The Carleton Web Services group has created hundreds of themes and modules for use at Carleton, and approaches development with an eye toward what can be included in the Reason core. While we stay quite busy on Carleton web projects, we are actively working on growing the Reason community, and working with peer institutions to shape the future of Reason.

A Favorite Thing

Reason lets our web developers and designers apply attention to a comprehensive vision for the Carleton website. We are able to built and deploy tools and themes that can be used by any Reason site, instead of doing custom projects that apply to only one office or department.