Re: Question on student user accounts

[Cal Frye <cjf () CALFRYE COM>]

There was little practical application of the distinction in our email system.
The use of aliases permitted folks to use more natural email addresses than the
userid system suggests. As for other services, as permanent staff held higher
privliges to other systems than students, the account created was either staff
or faculty, and their student status was obscured. Should graduated students
become permanent staff, they are migrated from student to staff contexts.
Student employees generally receive no staff-level access, with exceptions dealt
with on an individual basis. The userid now no longer reflects status at all.

--Cal Frye, Network Administrator, Oberlin College
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Valdis Kletnieks wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Jun 2005 11:59:03 EDT, Cal Frye said:
>
> > We had used a similar format, with an initial "S" for student, "F" for faculty,
> > etc.
>
>
> How did you deal with the issues surrounding a person with multiple statuses?
> For instance, a staff member working on a degree, or somebody who holds a
> part-time instructorship and a part-time job?