Faculty Web Server Policy - Proposed
The faculty web server (FWS), purchased with funding from the University System of Georgia's Connecting Teachers and Technology
Initiative, is intended to serve as a communications tool for full-time faculty members at Georgia College & State University. Its
purpose is to allow faculty to create web pages describing themselves, their teaching, their scholarship, and their service
activities to a wide audience including but not limited to:
- prospective and current students
- parents
- colleagues and friends of the university
These policies are intended to encourage and support faculty in their efforts to communicate their work to these important audiences in
ways that reflect well on the faculty and complement the university's Liberal Arts mission. While there is no requirement that faculty
use this webserver or develop web pages, it is our hope and expectation that the level of university support allocated to the GCSU Faculty Web
Server and its users will provide sufficient incentive to do so.
The Department of Web Enabled Resources at GCSU is charged with the responsibility of maintaining the FWS at a high
level of availability and functionality consistent with campus-wide security and resource requirements, as well as supporting FWS users
through training, help desk support, providing standard software and managing accounts on the server, including disk space
allocation, so as to maximize the benefits to the faculty as a whole.
With these principles in mind, the following policies were developed:
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Any full-time faculty person may request an account on the FWS. Adjunct and temporary faculty may request accounts with the endorsement of their department chair.
- All FWS accounts will be restricted to a specific amount of disk
space so as to assure all faculty of the opportunity to use this
facility. Additional disk space may be requested where a compelling
need can be shown.
- Individual faculty and their departments will not incur any costs
associated with normal use of the FWS.
- Web Enabled Resources will install and maintain the
following special services for the FWS:
- Site-wide CGI Services
for counters and forms handling,
- a Site-wide search facility,
- Uninterruptable Power Service for 120 minutes or longer,
- regularly publish comprehensive statistics on FWS visitors and system "up-time," and
- publish online documentation providing
information on operations that are specific to the FWS (i.e. how to
configure Microsoft Front Page to "Publish" to the FWS).
- Faculty may create the HTML code necessary to constructing web
pages with whatever software they have and are most comfortable with.
Training and support, however, may be limited to one or two
applications and further limited to those things not covered
adequately in the basic or supplemental documentation.
- Generally, faculty are responsible for making their web pages
display as intended with major web browsers in current use across all
major platforms. However, assistance is available to address those
problems not covered in commonly available references on HTML,
graphics and media in common use or so severe as to cause visitors'
web browsers to crash or become unstable.
- Instructional pages or faculty home pages on the FWS are unofficial
and as such, require no pre-approval prior to publication. However,
these pages are subject to review on the basis of the university's
"Appropriate Use" policy.
- Faculty web pages should include a disclaimer stating that the
information contained therein has not been reviewed by university
administration and, as such, is not official information.
- Faculty are expected to be aware of the University System of
Georgia's policy on the educational use of copyrighted materials and
to adhere to that policy. The FWS is "world viewable." Thus, if
permission to use copyrighted materials is contingent upon
restricting access, another, secure, server such as theWebCT Server
should be used.
- To ensure the security and high level of performance of the FWS and
the network upon which it depends, the use of any executable program
on the server other than offering it for download will be solely at
the discretion of the System Administrator. Most commonly, this
includes CGIs, Java Servlets and scripting systems that extend the
capabilities of the server.
Return to the GCSU FWS User's Guide
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