All students are required to check their University email account daily. Official, "in writing" college and campus-wide communications are sent to students over email. Students are responsible for information that is transmitted through this electronic medium (see Computer Code of Conduct). The student University email account is the only electronic mailing address recognized by the University. The University and its employees are not responsible for forwarding email to students at personal email accounts that are not held by theUniversity. Information included in student emails should follow the guidelines of appropriate professional conduct. (See Computer Code of Conduct and Appendix 2, Section 2, Subsections a and b under 'Grounds for Action: Academic and Professional Misconduct’).
Students are not to send campus-wide emails without the prior approval of a student’s respective Academic Dean or the Dean/Associate Dean of Students. Excessive emails substantially slow thesystem’s network capabilities. Attempts at minimizing the load to the network should be practiced by all MWU students, faculty, and staff.
Please Note:
Although students are required to check their University email accounts daily, and are able to use their accounts as alumni, it should be noted that a student's university email account is the property of MWU and is to be solely administered by University Information Technology Services. A student is prohibited from contracting with third party software companies that require any type of intervention on the part of other students, staff, faculty or administration when attempting to freely email that student's university email account. University Information Technology Services, through the discretion of the Deans, has the sole authority when limiting or preventing access to a student's emailaccount.
Failure to abide by this policy and any other computer code of conduct violation may result in disciplinary action in accordance with Appendix 2, Section 2 of this handbook.