Acceptable Use Policy

7.0 Use of Official Academic Policy Documents on the Web
Primary audience: Academic departments
Last modified or reviewed: August 2000

7.1 Policy Statement

Colleges, schools and departments are encouraged to maintain Web pages that offer helpful information to both current and prospective students, as well as other university and public audiences. Those who wish to include ETSU and program admission requirements, degree and course requirements, degree and course descriptions, and course offerings must do so by linking to the officially sanctioned Web versions of these university documents:

University catalogs 

The current Schedule of Classes

Colleges, schools, departments and units that link to official academic policy documents should also include the following notice on their Web sites:

The information presented here is intended to help you answer any questions you might have about our admission and program requirements. However, both university and college, school, department or unit requirements are subject to change. In planning any course of study or degree program, you should consult your major advisor and the officially sanctioned versions of the ETSU documents listed below.

Though efforts will be made to keep the Web version (if applicable) of each document current, the hard copy of each is always updated first. Document hard copies are available from:

Undergraduate Bulletin, Admissions Office, Box 70731 
Graduate Bulletin, Graduate Studies, Box 70720 
Schedule of Classes, 1st floor of Burgin E. Dossett Hall, Admissions or Registrar's Office

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7.2 Why follow this policy?

These documents should be the prime source for academic policy and procedure information given to current and prospective students. Serving up abridgments, abstracts, re-writes or unauthorized revisions of official statements of academic program policy documents may lead to inconsistency with THEC, TBR, ETSU or accreditation/licensure requirements. Potential exists for misinterpretation on the part of students because of typographical errors or mistakes in interpretation by those authoring the re-writes. Colleges, schools, departments and units should be certain that all information on their Web sites is consistent with the policies mentioned above. On policy matters, ETSU should speak with one clear voice.