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POLICY REGARDING USE OF THE COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING WORLD WIDE WEB (Web) SERVER

The College of Engineering Web server is intended to support the mission of the College and the University. More specifically it is to be used to publish information pertinent to the College, Engineering departments, programs, student organizations, centers and courses. The College of Engineering Web server is not to be used for the publication of personal, political, religious or other forms of information that do not specifically support the mission of the College, or for the distribution of commercially available software.

Any information hosted by the College Web server and any individuals or organizations authoring information on the College Web server are required to comply with University policies regarding communications, computing, security and privacy. These policies and others can be found on the General University Reference Utility (GURU) server. Links to several pertinent documents are provided below. Policies generated by the College of Engineering pertaining to the College Web server are not intended to supercede any existing University policy. In any event, University policies will govern the resolution of issues regarding the publication of information on the College Web server.

University Policies:

• AD-11: University Policy On Confidentiality Of Student Records
• AD-20: Computer and Network Security
• AD-23: Use of Institutional Data
• ADG-1: Glossary of Computer and System Terminology
• ADG-2: Computer Facility Security Guideline

Definitions:

• Publisher—any department, program, student organization, center, or engineering course that represents a sponsoring organization (e.g. the Department of Mechanical Engineer, Tau Beta Pi, ECSEL, AE124).
• Author—an individual that edits hypertext markup language (HTML) documents.
• Group—one or more authors having access to a directory containing publisher information.

Engineering Policies:

• Engineering departments, programs, student organizations, centers and courses, hereafter referred to as publishers, may publish information on the Engineering Web site.
• Pages of a personal nature should be hosted by the University’s Web server.
• Authors must establish a computer account on the Engineering domain (network).
• A "WEBMASTER" group will be established for each publisher.
• Authors will be made members of their respective "WEBMASTER" (e.g. WEB_ME_MASTER) group and will be granted read, write, delete and execute control of their respective directories.
• Authors and publishers will be responsible for content of the publisher’s Web pages as well as results of server side processes initiated by those same pages (e. g. common gateway interface or CGI scripts).
• The Information Systems (IS) will maintain all groups and accounts.

In the event that the College Web server support staff needs to amend these policies to assure proper functioning of this service, authors will be appropriately notified. Any comments can be addressed via email to WEBMASTER@ENGR.PSU.EDU.