Threatened Faculty Strike Holds Up Student Aid at Youngstown State U.

August 23, 2011, 11:43 pm

A threatened faculty strike at Youngstown State University has put in question whether classes will start as scheduled next week, and students are protesting the university’s decision to put their federal financial aid on hold until the issue is resolved, The Tribune Chronicle, of Warren, Ohio, reported. In an e-mail on Monday, Youngstown State’s president, Cynthia E. Anderson, told students that the U.S. Department of Education had directed the university not to disburse the aid. She later met with student protesters in an attempt to alleviate their concerns. Representatives of the faculty union and the administration are heading back to the bargaining table on Wednesday morning, WFMJ, the local NBC affiliate, reported.

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sivavaid

So this IS a big change. And it deserves significant scrutiny. “But there is one wrinkle: A Google spokesman confirmed that if university network administrators have enabled extra optional services on their domains, like Google+, YouTube, or the company’s blogging platform, the use of those additions will be governed by the new privacy policy.” It’s not the POLICY that matters. It’s the PRACTICE. Does this list of services include Google Books linked to library catalogs, as we have at UVa? Does it include Google Docs? What does it include and what does it not? Under what circumstances is data from university GMail integrated with other Google services? Never? Sometimes? Only when students log out and log in as a non-university user? So many questions here. Please ask some of them next time.
eyeshaveit

The statement from Goggle only mentions student protections but all faculty and staff are “forced” to use Goggle mail as well. What protections are in place for faculty and staff? It makes sense to assume that we are all being monitored all the time and to act accordingly.
jsibelius

When your university contracted with Google to provide your email and other services, it it highly probable that they did so by building a real contract – not one of those click-through things that says “I agree” like we normal humans do. Google’s new privacy terms should not change whatever was agreed on between Google and your university. You need to get your university to speak up about exactly what their terms are with Google. There lies your answer to “how does this affect me?”
http://www.facebook.com/people/Ezra-Hart-Tecson/100003555298886 Ezra Hart Tecson

Google’s new privacy policy took effec.The policy will allow them to consolidate users’ data across all of its services and platforms, in a move they claim will both improve user experience and make their policy “easier to understand.”

Additionally, the consolidation of all of the previous service-specific plans makes it hard to tell what data will be retained, for how long, and what Google plans to do with the data that they collect on their users.

Despite the criticisms, Google’s official blog continued to defend its new policy, emphasizing that they made the changes to benefit the users:
and with this articles it allows the public to know whats the google new policy is.