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Re: Signing AUP
From: Tracy Mitrano <tbm3 () CORNELL EDU>
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 20:06:31 -0400
Hi Mellisa, We tie our acceptable use policy, called Responsible Use of Electronic Communications, http://www.univco.cornell.edu/policy/RU.html to our Code of Conduct. For more information about that connection, please see: http://www.cit.cornell.edu/computer/responsible-use/. I like that approach because of the message that it sends: being in a campus community raises the bar of expectations for students, i.e. they can experience something of "citizenship" rather than contract, per se, as might be suggested with signing something (albeit one of "adhesion" because they essentially do not have bargaining power...except of course not to attend the institution altogether). And it implicates everyone, even thought for alleged violations we have different routing procedures, e.g. a staff member gets noticed to HR, faculty to the provost and students to the judicial administrator, our version of the dean of students for discipline. At the front end, we also have a mandatory informational on-line tutorial, called Travellers of the Electronic Highway. http://www.cit.cornell.edu/training/teh/teh.html Right now it is just for all new students (including transfers) and anyone who fails to take it by a certain date has their netid "frozen" until they do. We hope to roll it out to new staff and faculty sometime soon too, especially light of a host of new policies that are slated to go into effect pretty soon. For more information about those matters, please see: http://www.cit.cornell.edu/oit/policy/drafts/ Best, Tracy Mitrano Cornell At 12:45 PM 10/14/2003 -0700, you wrote:
Isn't it general practice to have users sign or accept the network usage policy or the acceptable use policy? Have you ever come across any valid arguments against signing this type of policy? Who needs to sign it....students - Faculty - staff? All? ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Discussion Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/cg/.
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- Signing AUP Melissa Guenther (Oct 14)
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- Re: Signing AUP Theresa M Rowe (Oct 14)
- Re: Signing AUP Greg Francis (Oct 14)
- Re: Signing AUP Barros, Jacob (Oct 14)
- Re: Signing AUP Tracy Mitrano (Oct 14)