Impact of Patriot Act on Higher Education

[Tracy Mitrano <tbm3 () CORNELL EDU>]

Friends:

On Tuesday, March 9, the Cornell University Office of Information
Technologies is sponsoring an all-day educational review of the impact that
the Patriot Act, and other anti-terrorist legislation, is having on Cornell
(and by extension, to a large degree, to all of higher
education).   http://www.cit.cornell.edu/oit/ucpl/patriot.html

One event, mid-day, will be a live broadcast (with archived video to follow
later that day) of a panel discussion with our Vice President of Student
and Academic Services, Vice-Provost for Research, and University Librarian.
(See web page for more details.)

Given questions about foreign student applications and tracking (see
today's Chronicle
story:
<http://chronicle.com/temp/email.php?id=s99t1rj01gpvqlwf6xd67unwe4apb08y> ,
the deleterious effect regulations have had on research using "select
agents" and electronic surveillance generally, we thought a discussion
concretely addressing these issues for higher education would be of general
interest.

Thanks, Tracy


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