ACDSPW%SUVM.BITNET@CORNELLC.cit.cornell.edu (Sally Webster) (05/08/91)
HELP NEEDED FOR EDUCOM PROJECT!! ================================= The Educational Uses of Information Technology (EUIT) group of EDUCOM has begun a new project, called colloquially "Ethics War Stories." The product of this project will be a collection of case studies of how colleges and universities handle breaches of their computer policies, state & federal laws, network guidelines, and the computer portions of their student and faculty handbooks. We would like contributions from academic computing staff members, faculty, deans, and other administrators who have been responsible for formulating, interpreting, and enforcing computing policies, state & federal laws, network guidelines, and student codes of conduct. The contributions should be in the form of a case study: * introduce the institution and the faculty or staff who were involved, * explain the offense or breach and state which policies or laws were breached, * explain how the situation was handled (including final outcomes for the student, staff, or faculty member), and * point to any change in policy, educational effort, or enforcement strategies if any occurred. * give us the benefit of your experience, and advise your colleagues who haven't had a baptism of fire Please include the name, telephone number, and network address of a contact person (possibly you?), so that details can be checked and final permission sought before anything is published or otherwise disseminated. If you know of such instances which could be made into case studies, but you were not directly involved, please send the names of people we can talk to, and we'll take it from there. We anticipate that while scenarios might not differ much across institutions, outcomes at public institutions will likely differ from those at private institutions. Beyond that, at this stage, we cannot predict what other categories might emerge. We expect to use this collection in one or more of these ways: * as general background to inform government bodies of the types of situations which we deal with * as a "workbook" from which people can take specific ideas for handling certain kinds of situations * as a body of knowledge from which to draw conclusions which might help institutions formulate or reformulate policy and structure educational and enforcement strategies We expect that some people will be willing to share their war stories on condition that we not identify either them or their institution, and we will be happy to do that. Send your stories (or the names of people we can contact) to Project Leader: Sally Webster, Asst. Professor of Computer Applications, SUNY/CESF Syracuse, NY, acdspw@suvm, 13 Moon Library, SUNY/CESF, Syracuse, N.Y. 13210