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Information technology policy is impacted by a wide range of perspectives from international, national, state, and campus levels. This resource page underscores the connections among these different levels and how international organizations, Congress, federal agencies, state governments, and the courts all play a role in shaping IT policy and law, as well as why this matters to higher education. Campus policies, whether developed to comply with legal mandates or to formalize institutional norms and processes, are under constant development and review as a result of changes precipitated by the introduction of new information technologies.

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Policy Guidelines for the Development and Promotion of Open Access: April 9, 2012

This UNESCO publication seeks to serve the needs of Open Access (OA) policy development at the government, institutional and funding agency level. The overall objective of the Policy Guide…
Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Academic and Research Libraries: February 1, 2012

This guide was published by the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) as a clear and easy-to-use statement of fair and reasonable approaches to fair use developed by and for librarians who sup…
UNH Social Media Guidelines: January 19, 2012

These guidelines are designed to help University of New Hampshire employees who create or contribute to University-related electronic social media to do so in a respectful, professional, relevan…
Compliance Matrix Poster for IT & Compliance Professionals: March 17, 2010

This matrix poster developed by Symantec outlines IT Controls for security and privacy concerns related to regulatory compliance in the workplace. Topics addressed in this poster include: Regu…
Higher Education Information Security Council 2012–2013 Strategic Plan: February 24, 2012

The HEISC mission is to improve information security, data protection, and privacy programs across the higher education sector through its working groups of volunteers and professional EDUCAUSE s…
Enterprise Information Security Program: March 26, 2009

The University of Iowa’s program for information security is a combination of policy, security architecture modeling, and descriptions of current IT security services and control practices. …
Implementing the Higher Education Opportunity Act – A Checklist for Business Officers: December 8, 2009

NACUBO has prepared a high-level checklist of provisions stemming from the Higher Education Opportunity Act to help business officers and others keep track of key compliance obligations. The …
Image Collection Guidelines: November 28, 2007

These are guidelines in the acquisition and use of images in non-profit educational visual resources collections, written by the Visual Resources Association. …
Guidelines for Responding to Compulsory Legal Requests for Information: May 11, 2007

Law enforcement requests for electronic records generally should be handled in the same way as other legal requests for other documents and by the same people. This is a guideline on how to handl…
Practical Information Media Sanitization Guidelines for Higher Education: October 6, 2006

When these storage and media devices become obsolete or are no longer needed the sensitive or private data must be effectively removed from the storage media or be destroyed before the devices ar…

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