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Date:         Thu, 7 Jan 1993 06:33:42 GMT
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From:         "Carl M. Kadie" <kadie@EFF.ORG>
Subject:      Re: Due Process Examples

MARTINJ@MSCD.BITNET writes:

>Does anyone know of good examples [of due process procedures]
>of similar work done on other campuses that might be available from the
>network?

(Several items in the Computers and Academic Freedom archive may be
useful to you.)

I think the best due process procedure I've seen is from Iowa State
University:

    "Violations of the University Code of Computer Ethics are treated like
    any other ethical violation as outlined in the Student Handbook and
    applicable faculty and staff handbooks.

The alternative is to set up your own disciplinary system, but that
seems impractical. That it require authorization from the school and
probably revisions of the student code and the faculty and staff
handbooks. Also, if you are at a state school, you would need
extensive legal advice to be sure that your due process procedures
are legal.

- Carl

ANNOTATED REFERENCES

(All these documents are available on-line. Access information follows.)

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faq/policy.best
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* Policy -- Examples of the Best Policies

q: Which computer policies are the best models for a good academic policy?

a: I don't think there is a single policy that is best is all ways,
...

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faq/policy
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* Policy -- Guidance for Creating and Evaluating

q: What guidance is there for creating or evaluating a computer policy?

a: The first thing to do is to get a copy of your university's Student
...

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faq/due-process
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* Due Process

q: Should users be suspended from the computer pending formal discipline?

a: No, with one exception. Just as students should not be expelled from
...

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caf
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* About the CAF mailing lists (and newsgroups)

A description of the comp-academic-freedom-talk mailing list. It is a
free-forum for the discussion of questions such as: How should general
principles of academic freedom (such as freedom of expression, freedom
to read, due process, and privacy) be applied to university computers
and networks? How are these principles actually being applied? How can
the principles of academic freedom as applied to computers and
networks be defended?

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If you have gopher, you can browse the CAF archive with the command
   gopher gopher.eff.org

These document(s) are also available by anonymous ftp (the preferred
method) and by email. To get the file(s) via ftp, do an anonymous ftp
to ftp.eff.org (192.88.144.4), and get file(s):

  pub/academic/faq/policy.best
  pub/academic/faq/policy
  pub/academic/faq/due-process
  pub/academic/caf

To get the file(s) by email, send email to archive-server@eff.org.
Include the line(s) (be sure to include the space before the file
name):

send acad-freedom/faq policy.best
send acad-freedom/faq policy
send acad-freedom/faq due-process
send acad-freedom caf
--
Carl Kadie -- I do not represent EFF; this is just me.
 =kadie@eff.org, kadie@cs.uiuc.edu =
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