A question for those of you in the HE sector:
Here at Lancaster maybe 50% of our total alumni records now have out of
date (or just unknown) mail addresses. The Alumni Office has come up
with the cunning plan of placing the name, graduation year and academic
subject of such students on a public part of the university website,
with an invitation to anyone (the alumnus themselves, their best friend,
their worst enemy etc etc) to submit the current address details for
these students.
I'm aware that other institutions do this, and the most typical
justification I've seen is that such information is already in the
public domain because degree results are published in newspapers.
However, we certainly don't publish our degree results anywhere (the
closest to the "public domain" they get is our Ceremonies Programme,
which is only available at ceremonies....though perhaps there's a
thriving blackmarket on Ebay or something?).
Anyway, what I'd like to know is - for those of you whose institutions
are doing this, what are you using as justification for making such
information so visibly public (around the world)? Are any of you in the
position of doing this even though you don't publish in the papers? Has
anyone asked the OIC their opinion (and would you prefer me not to ask
in case the answer isn't what you'd want?!?).
Thanks
Andrew Okey
Administrative Officer
Student Registry
Lancaster University
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