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January is Data Privacy Month

You know the importance of protecting personal identities and the effects social media can have on privacy, but does everyone on your campus? In 2012, during the month of January, EDUCAUSE expanded on Data Privacy Day to provide an entire month’s worth of activities and resources to help raise data privacy awareness. Visit the EDUCAUSE Data Privacy Month page for examples of campus activities, as well as archived recordings of several privacy-related webinars.

Privacy in a Networked Environment

With the explosive growth of electronic networks and wide accessibility of online information, EDUCAUSE members -- along with many other higher education constituencies -- are dealing with a formidable set of privacy issues. A key set of issues revolves around the handling of student information, which under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) of 1974 enjoys special protection.

Other Sources of Information about Online Privacy

Electronic Frontier Foundation, a non-profit civil liberties organization working in the public interest to protect privacy, free expression, and access to public resources and information in new media.
Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), a public interest research center in Washington, D.C., established in 1994 to focus public attention on emerging civil liberties issues and to protect privacy.
Privacy Forum, a moderated digest for the discussion and analysis of issues relating to the general topic of privacy (both personal and collective) in the "information age" of the 1990's and beyond.
Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR), a public-interest alliance of computer scientists and others interested in the impact of computer technology on society.

Updated February 2012

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Empowering Users as Members of the Computer Center Team: January 1, 1993

Potsdam College of the State University of New York was faced with the challenge of changing outdated administrative computing systems containing redundant and inaccurate data that could not be acc…
Putting Information Technology to Work for Persons with a Disability: January 1, 1993

At the University of Toronto, a study found many ways in which information technology could be used to address the needs of persons with a disability. The challenge was to deploy the resources and…
Administrative Workstation Project at Indiana University: January 1, 1993

At Indiana University the confluence of budget woes and an information explosion created a unique opportunity to sell an information technology vision three years ago. A grant from Apple Computer,…
Campus Profile: Columbia University: January 1, 1993

This article is based on a visit to Columbia University by editor Julia Rudy. The Campus Computing Environment department of CAUSE/EFFECT regularly focuses on the computing and information technol…
Analytical Processing as Executive Decision Support: January 1, 1993

The 1990s will see the rise of analytical processing based on select data elements warehoused as archival, integrated, and subject-oriented relational records. LAN-based software will support man…
Participative Planning - A Tool for Building Partnerships for Change: January 1, 1993

This article examines some of the key elements of a participative planning process that has been used successfully in planning for change. This task-oriented approach to planning takes advantage o…
PC-Based Multimedia: An Opportunity to Redesign the Learning Process: January 1, 1993

Multimedia programs designed for use on a microcomputer with a CD-ROM drive offer the opportunity to create course lecture material -- complete with text, graphics, pictures, audio, animation, and …
HEIRAlliance Executive Strategies Report #2: What Presidents Need to Know About the Future of University Libraries: Technology and Scholarly Communication: January 1, 1993

This four-page report summarizes the findings of an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation study, University Libraries and Scholarly Communication, which looks at the current position of university libraries …
Readers Respond: Campuses that Eliminated Mainframes or Plan To and What Hardware Configuration Replaces Them: January 1, 1993

January 1, 1993 CEM932C …
Reinvesting in the Informatiuon Job Family: Context, Changes, New Jobs, & Models for Evaluation & Compensation: January 1, 1993

Professional Paper #11. An exploration of the idea that professionals who manage information on campus -- whether from the computing or library community -- could be considered part of a single &q…

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