Here are Tim Heidinger's comments: he's been added to the mailing list.
He can't make next week's meeting on Tuesday, but he's interested in
participating in meetings on other days.
-- Tom Holub (tom_holub@LS.Berkeley.EDU, 510-642-9069) College of Letters & Science 249 Campbell Hall
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Tom,
At 05:25 PM 12/4/01 -0800, you wrote: >Are you interested in joining the committee? I can't meet on Tuesdays. However, if I can provide any specific input or lend support please call on me. If it would be useful to add me to the committee mailing list please do so.
From a quick look at your meeting notes I think I can clear some things up and give some input.
From the 11/13 Meeting notes: "(Mike) The undergrad division wants to be able to send e-mail to incoming students--students don't have uclink accounts at that point. Incoming students also want to be able to publish an address before they get here. They could point their Berkeley.EDU address at a yahoo or hotmail account until they have uclink. "
The undergrad division already sends e-mail to incoming students. Most (90%+) give us an email address on their application and we use it.
I'm not sure incoming students want to be able to publish an address before they get here. However, we are interested in giving incoming students the option to setup a uclink account as soon as they say they are coming. Currently there is a delay between these two events (when they commit and when they can get an address).
We also want the email address we have from their application to be handled appropriately, that is this email address has not made it into the CalNet in the past, only new uclink addresses get in (or something like this happens, at any rate we could do a better job in the transition).
I think it would be simplest if incoming students who do create a uclink account have their new uclink account accessible from either joesmith@uclink.berkeley or joesmith@berkeley.edu automatically.
I think it would be confusing to have two different places to set forwarding options, i.e. a uclink forwarding option and a .berkeley.edu option.
BTW, FERPA = Federal Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974, see http://registrar.berkeley.edu/GeneralInfo/ferpa.html
My 2cents on opt-in: I'd reference the recent rollout of SurePay as a reason to make this service opt-in, there is no accounting for what some people think is useful.
It seems the idea of pre-assigned email addresses is dead so I'm probably just beating a dead-horse (I hope)... I did a quick analysis of uniqueness of students names when this topic came up months ago, it turns out that non-unique names are skewed by ethnicity, so schemes which add numbers to nonunique names, i.e. tim.Heidinger123 will affect some ethnicity a lot more than others.
As long as we are on that topic... I'm pushing to NOT create system-generated addresses for incoming students, rather I'd like to keep the email creation process pretty similar to the current system and change the accuracy of how we capture (making sure students keep it up-to-date) and use those addresses (better integration with LMS for example). SIS Director JR Schulden is in the middle of trying to coordinate email address interfaces with the new Learning Management Systems, touching base with her might be wise.
Isn't the CalNet friendly-name option rolling out in February is limited to faculty/staff?
If I can provide any further clarifications or input or lend support for your effort please call on me. Thanks,
Tim
Tim Heidinger <timh@uclink.berkeley.edu> University of California, Berkeley Undergrad Affairs Phone: (510)643-2596
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