It is recommended that users change their user account password periodically to help prevent compromise and unauthorized access of their user account. Any suspected unauthorized access of a user account should be reported immediately to the Director of Information Technology or other college authority. All e-mail, or messages are removed from user accounts when account deactivation occurs. Ownership Nichols College assumes and reserves ownership of all data, files, messages, and programs stored in its computer systems. Users cannot claim ownership of any data stored in Nichols College computer systems.
Users can, however, expect exclusive use of all e-mail messages stored in their user accounts.
Cooperation with any system administrator requests regarding user computer activities is expected. Only under certain unusual circumstances involving issues of system integrity or sexual harassment, and at the direction of the president of the college, will the system administrator access email stored in user accounts. Software Copying Respect for the intellectual work and property of others has traditionally been essential to the mission of academic institutions. As members of the academic community, Nichols College values the free exchange of ideas. Just as Nichols College does not tolerate plagiarism, it does not condone the unauthorized copying of software, including programs, applications, operating systems, and databases.