Electronic Communications of Record SISS has excellent functionality for automating many communications with students. The system is capable of sending communications to students via e-mail notifying them of impending deadlines, deadlines they've missed and consequences, status of transactions, etc. Using the system to automate such communications will save hundreds of hours of staff time and thousands of dollars each year in paper, printing, envelopes, and mailing costs.
All students have access to e-mail already.
Undergraduates are assigned e-mail addresses when they first matriculate. There is thus no constraint on access to DukeNet or e-mail for any Duke student due to economic status. We expect that some communications, such as those of a highly sensitive nature that, e.g., currently require the use of certified mail, would continue to utilize paper processing. We envision e-mail to be used for the more routine administrative communications which currently comprise the bulk of communications with current students. Notices about registration windows.