Comunity

ACCEPTABLE USE POLICY
INTERNET AND OTHER COMPUTER NETWORKS

The College District ("District") promotes the use of Internet resources for purposes consistent with the educational mission and curriculum. The District's goal is to promote the free exchange of information between and among currently enrolled students, faculty, staff, and the global information community. The District providesaccess to local, national and international sources of information and provides an atmosphere that encourages access to knowledge and sharing of information. Responsible use of this access includes:

* Respect for the privacy of others; for example, users shall not seek information on, obtain copies of, or modify files, other data or passwords belonging to other users unless explicitly authorizedto do so by those users.

* Respect for the legal protection of copyright and license agreements for programs and data.

* Respect for the integrity of computing systems; for example, users shall not intentionally develop programs that harass other users or infiltrate a computer or computing system and/or damage or alter the software or hardware components of a computer or computing system.District computer systems facilitate access to and distribution of information. The District has no editorial control over the content, materials or data distributed or disseminated on the network. The quality and content of the materials that exist on electronic data networks are beyond the control of the District. Users are responsible for the materials that they access through Districtresources.

POLICY REQUISITE

All users of computing systems must read, understand, and comply with the terms outlined in this Policy, as well as any additional guidelines established by District computer systems administrators. By using any of these systems, users agree that they will comply with these policies. Users understand and agree that the District’s role in managing these systems isonly as an information carrier, and that they will never consider transmission through these systems as an endorsement of said transmission by the District.

RIGHTS

These computer systems, facilities and accounts are owned and operated by the District. The District reserves all rights, including termination of service without notice, to the computing resources which it owns and operates.This policy shall not be construed as a waiver of any rights of the District, nor shall they conflict with applicable law.

AUTHORIZED USE

Access and privileges on the District’s computing systems are assigned and managed by the administrators of the specific individual systems. Eligible individuals may become authorized users of the system and be granted appropriate access and privileges byfollowing the approval steps prescribed for that system.

All access to the District’s computer resources, including issuing of passwords, must be approved by an authorized District agent.

GENERAL ACCEPTABLE USES OF THE NETWORK

* Scholarship, scientific research, or instructional applications engaged in by students, faculty and staff.

* Communication and exchange for professionaldevelopment, to maintain currency, or to debate issues in a field or sub-field of knowledge.

* Discipline-society, college-association, government-advisory, or standards activities related to user's research, instructional and administrative activities.

* Access to college and university libraries and information and news from a variety of sources and research institutions.

* Access toinformation resources, computers and people throughout the world.

* Interaction with students, faculty and staff by electronic mail.

* Discussion groups on a wide variety of topics.

* Administrative activities which are part of the support infrastructure needed for instruction, scholarship, student services and institutional management.

UNACCEPTABLE USES OF THE NETWORK

Use of any...