Re: Faculty & Staff E-mail Forwarding to Outside Providers

[Ken Connelly <Ken.Connelly () UNI EDU>]

We do not attempt to control e-mail forwarding for faculty, staff, or 
students. All are able to setup forwarding on their own without 
intervention from IT.

- ken

Stanclift, Michael wrote:
> Just curious how many of you permit employees to forward their work 
> email to non-campus managed email providers. We will periodically 
> setup forwards for them as requested, but have started to wonder if 
> this may be a FERPA violation since students are not aware their 
> information is being released to a third party service, where as if 
> the professor asks them to use a non-campus email, at least they’re 
> aware of it when sending it.
>
> We’ve always disliked the practice because it’s just additional 
> overhead for us and makes it difficult to track down messages sent to 
> people, or recover them if they delete them. But is there a legal 
> reason behind not doing it?
>
> *Michael Stanclift*
>
> *Network Analyst*
>
> *Rockhurst University*
>
> http://help.rockhurst.edu <http://help.rockhurst.edu/>
> (816) 501-4231

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- Ken
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Ken Connelly             Associate Director, Security and Systems
ITS Network Services                  University of Northern Iowa
email: Ken.Connelly () uni edu   p: (319) 273-5850 f: (319) 273-7373