Nervous about privacy laws, institutions are nevertheless thinking about outsourcing faculty and administrative e-mail accounts to Google and Microsoft.
[Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education]
Despite Risks, IT Officials Outsource Campus E-Mail
16 October 2009
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New Study Sees Surge in E-Mail Outsourcing
10 April 2009Academia has seen “explosive growth” in the outsourcing of student e-mail systems, according to a new study.
Nearly 20-percent of the senior IT leaders surveyed said commercial providers now host their primary student e-mail systems, said the report from Educause, the nonproft higher-education technology consortium.
Faculty and staff e-mail is another story. Only 2.3-percent of those primary systems were hosted commercially, Educause found, in part because of concern over confidentiality.
You’ll find lots of other campus communications topics addressed in the study, titled Spreading the Word: Messaging and Communications in Higher Education.”
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