Faculty endorse e-mail as well, for many of the same reasons and because of its potential for creating educational forums for student voices and ideas. Developing a personal and professional awareness of the effects of e-mail in higher education has not been a priority. Surely someone should. The faculty , juggling enough work with research and teaching already, do not consider themselves in a position to instruct students on developing appropriate electronic discourse practices. Perhaps that's the way it should be.
Manners evolve out of a community and everybody has to learn to manage their time for themselves.
But it's in everybody's best interest to be concerned about developing and implementing some management strategies to cut the fat out of the infoglut. Here are some general ideas on how to go about it. The effort may well have to start with something as simple as surveying the intended audience to find out what the campus needs to know. Many people don't take advantage of the simple tools that can help them organize their mail, such as creating folders, sorting, filtering, and archiving messages. The contemporary conventions of e-mail need to be shared with the faculty and staff.