| Posted by Tower of Power , Jul 23,2001,14:22 | MetroBlab |
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July 19, 2001
For Your Information: Electronic Mail Monitoring Policy; Electronic Mail
as a Public Record
Tennessee law requires state agencies to have a written policy on any monitoring of electronic mail communications and the circumstances
under which such monitoring would be conducted. The University of
Tennessee's policy may be found on the Treasurer's Office web site
at Fiscal Policy 135. The address is http://www.tennessee.edu/acs/5135.htm
The University's policy provides that computers and computer services, including e-mail and web access, are provided to employees for use in
conducting authorized University business. The University
reserves the right to preserve or inspect for business reasons
any information transmitted through or stored on its
computers or computer systems, including electronic mail
communications. Business reasons include, but are not limited to,
violation of the University's policies on computer use, other university
policies, and state or federal laws.
Electronic mail sent or received through the University's computer systems is stored and may be retrieved. Therefore, employees' e-mail may be public record under the Tennessee Public Records Act, subject
to inspection by residents of Tennessee.
| Posted by Myra ® , Jul 23,2001,14:43 | MetroBlab |
Kevin
| Posted by Myra ® , Jul 24,2001,08:16 | MetroBlab |
No, it's the university's problem. It's no one's "fault." How difficult it to simply acknowledge that the hundreds of students working for UT are actually, *gasp*, working for UT. I simply don't understand this huge conspiracy that some parts of UT seem to participate in to belittle and generally ignore the student workers. But we all know that this isn't just done to student workers, but to all of the low-paying workers. :(
If you're a bi-weekly student worker or a workstudy all your resident computer guru needs to do is create a "temp" i.d. of some kind and list it as a staff member on the server. Many departments do this since they have steady student worker positions that rotate individuals. Then all they have to do when a new worker comes in is change the password.
Yeah, that will work. We only have about a hundred student workers in my department...
Why don't more of the people that work at UT understand both where they work and for whom they work. This is a university; you are here solely to serve the students and faculty(who, in turn, are here for the students themselves). Furthermore, this is a public university. You(we, actually) are public servants. Start acting like it!
Kevin