Standard 1: Guiding Principles

  1. Guiding Principles
    1. Mt. San Antonio College will provide Web Hosting services in an intellectual environment that encourages the free and open exchange of information and ideas for administration, faculty, staff, and students who wish to create a web presence using the College web server. The College encourages an atmosphere of intellectual respect and responsibility to ensure everyone enjoys creative freedom without fear their intellectual efforts will be violated, altered, destroyed, or plagiarized.
    2. To ensure an atmosphere of intellectual freedom and respect, the College requires that all members of the College online community accept responsibility to protect and respect the rights of others. Any member of the College online community who, without authorization, accesses, uses, alters, or destroys the intellectual property of others or who accesses, uses, alters, destroys, or denies access to College information resources will be subject to disciplinary action and possible criminal prosecution.
    3. While the College encourages the free and open access to information resources and exchange of ideas, all users of College information resources should have the right to choose which information to access and view. Users of College information resources should therefore take responsible and reasonable care to neither knowingly nor deliberately expose others to material that might be considered offensive. Since the web site is the world's window to Mt. San Antonio College, the College encourages all members of its online community to exhibit high ethical and intellectual standards.
    4. These principles apply to all members of the College online community, including administration, faculty, staff, and students of the College. While the College encourages intellectual and creative freedom, it also highly encourages responsible use.
    5. The purpose of the Standards of Conduct is to ensure security of the information and technology provided by Mt. San Antonio College to members of the College online community and to promote the efficient, effective, ethical, and legal use of the web site and information resources. The spirit of these standards is to encourage respect and cooperation and promote the ethical, legal, and secure use of the web and information resources. The College provides web host services and access to information resources with the understanding that members of the College online community will contribute positively to the free and open exchange of information and ideas.
    6. The College expects its online community members to use the web and information resources in a manner consistent with instructional and administrative objectives of the College. Members are encouraged to safeguard personal information, passwords and authorization codes, and other confidential data. In exchange for hosting and access services, members of the College online community agree to abide by these guidelines. These standards and practices guidelines are not necessarily all-inclusive, and may be modified at any time.