Policies

The following policies are available on the information services website at www.up.edu/is or the policies page at www.up.edu/policies:

Acceptable Use: reflects the ethical principles of the University community and indicates, in general, the privileges, responsibilities, and limitations of those using University computing resources.
Backup: articulates information technology best practices which call for daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly system backups.
Data standards: records University data standards so as to ensure data integrity, consistency, and completeness.
Electronic letterhead: provides guidance for standardized University electronic letterhead as well as the template itself.
E-mail: standardizes naming of e-mail accounts and file storage associated with these accounts.
Information security: articulates the University’s position involving the principles to which students, faculty, staff, and the University community must adhere when handling information owned by or entrusted to the University of Portland.
Mass e-mail: articulates the University’s position involving mass e-mail (sometimes called “bulk e-mail”) to distribute official and commercial messages to members of the University community.
Password: establishes a standard for the creation of strong passwords.
Peer-to-peer: articulates the University’s position involving any peer-to-peer application that promotes copyright infringement or the illegal sharing of copyrighted files without permission of the owner or distributor.