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Global E-mail Lists and Reduction of Global Carbon Emissions
11/15/2006
On the other hand, institutions already struggle internally with how they do (or mostly do not) use those global e-mail lists for their own purposes. I’m a staff person at the University of Michigan and those global e-mails are not all that frequent.
The idea actually came to me because as part of another initiative I am working on, SCUP’s survey of provosts (4-year colleges) and presidents (2-year colleges) about the state of crisis planning and management on campus, I have been noticing the handful of companies out there which are selling colleges, universities, and K-12 districts instant communications packages for use in crises of various sorts, some based on text-messaging, some on e-mail, etc.
The recent reports on the decline of e-mail use among young people are a bit worrisome in that regard, as well as for my idea about weekly tips on reducing your carbon footprint. But far more of a barrier was the push-back I would expect from IT and communications personnel on campus, who I suspected would really not be happy with such an initiative.
Earlier this week, my suspicions about that were solidified when the EDUCAUSE CIO constituent group began discussing “Global E-mail Policy.”
Now, probably any president can get an exception to global e-mail policy made, but the discussion and policies shared in the first few parts of the CIO thread made it clear that this is not an easy thing to manage on campus.
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