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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 21:42:00 EST
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- From: "Dave.Millsop" <ADP56@MSU.BITNET>
- Subject: Re: student directory informatio
- In-Reply-To: The letter of Monday, 25 January 1993 5:21pm ET
- Lines: 71
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- Michigan State University currently defines the data elements listed below as
- directory elements, subject to release unless otherwise requested by the
- student. The student can request that all elements be kept confidential or
- make the same request on an element by element basis.
-
- STUDENT NAME
- LOCAL ADDRESS
- LOCAL PHONE
- PERMANENT ADDRESS
- PERMANENT PHONE
- CURRENT ENROLLMENT STATUS
- DATES OF ATTENDANCE
- PROGRAM LEVEL
- CLASS
- MAJOR
- CURRENT TERM CANDIDACY FOR DEGREE AND/OR TEACHER CERTIFICATION
- INFORMATION PERTAINING TO AWARDS EARNED
- INFORMATION PERTAINING TO HONORS ACHIEVEMENTS
- DEGREE(S) EARNED FROM MSU
- DEGREE EFFECTIVE DATE(S)
- STATE OF MICHIGAN CERTIFICATION FOR TEACHING
- STATE OF MICHIGAN CERTIFICATION FOR TEACHING DATE(S)
- PARTICIPATION IN OFFICIALLY RECOGNIZED UNIVERSITY ACTIVITIES AND SPORTS
- HEIGHT AND WEIGHT OF ATHLETIC TEAM MEMBERS
-
- The recent implementation of our new Student Information System (SIS) has
- greatly enhanced our capability to manage student requests for directory
- element confidentiality. Our new system includes a screen where the Office of
- the Registrar may enter various codes in response to a student request for
- confidentiality. The bulk of the requests are for address and phone
- confidentiality or for restricting the entire set of directory elements. The
- "CONFINFO" codes are associated with a particular student from the time the
- request is made until it is explicitly changed by the student. Even after
- leaving the University, the codes and screening capabilities remain in place.
-
- Each night, as part of our "data harvesting" (extract) process, the codes are
- translated into a series of flags, one for each of the directory elements
- listed above except for "height and weight of athletic team members" which is
- not maintained on SIS. As reports are produced, either in the "production"
- environment or in the Client Based Computing (end user) environment, programs
- may scan the flags when appropriate to determine if data should be released
- through labels, listings, or files created for data transfer.
-
- Programs producing output strictly for use within defined "need to know"
- parameters is not screened for directory element confidentiality.
- "Need to Know" broadly stated is any official and required University use of
- the data. All output created for distribution outside the "need to know"
- definition is screened using the flags described above.
-
- Our large Client Based (end user) Computing environment must be sure to
- perform confidential directory element screening when producing outputs for
- third party or student group distribution. In addition to programmatic
- screening techniques, output distributed from the central IT organization
- (Administrative Information Services) is marked with a confidentiality release
- notice indicating the reciepient of the output is responsible for the data
- contained within. Unauthorized use or release of the information after the
- point the output is picked up by the user is the responsibility of the user.
-
- So our screening is very broad, not limited to publications but extended to
- any output produced for distribution outside of the "Need To Know /
- Appropriate Use" policies of Michigan State University.
-
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- David L. Millsop, Jr. **
- Manager, SIS Data Access Services ** Be sure to catch our presentation at
- Michigan State University ** CUMREC 93 in San Antonio:
- 2 Administration Building **
- East Lansing, MI 48824-1046 ** "Three Steps Toward Distributed Data
- (517)353-4420 Ext 232 ** Access: DATA, TOOLS, and TRAINING"
- ADP56@MSU.BITNET **
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