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Student Email Policy

1. College use of email

Email is considered an official method of communication. Official email communications are intended to meet the academic and administrative needs of the campus community. The College has the right to expect that such communications will be received and read in a timely fashion. To enable this process, the College ensures that all students in credit-bearing courses can access a standardized, college-issued email account throughout their academic years at STCC.

2. Expectations about student use of email

Students are expected to check their STCC official email on a frequent and consistent basis in order to remain informed of College related communications. Checking email on a daily basis is recommended. (There are many computer stations and labs placed around campus for free student use, such as in the Student Success Center, Building 27, 1st floor).  Students have the responsibility to recognize that certain communications may be time-critical. “I didn’t check my email” or “my mailbox was full” are not acceptable excuses for missing official College communications via email. 

3. Appropriate use of student email

Users should exercise extreme caution in using email to communicate confidential or sensitive matters, and should not assume that email is private and confidential. It is especially important that users are careful to send messages only to the intended recipient(s), especially when using the “reply” command during email correspondence. Finally, although many users regard e-mail as being like a telephone in offering a quick, informal way to communicate, users should remember that e-mails can be stored, copied, printed, or forwarded by recipients. As such, users should not write anything in an e-mail message that they would not feel just as comfortable putting into a memorandum.

4. Educational uses of email

Faculty will determine how email will be used in their classes. This “Official Student Email Policy” will ensure that all students will have the tools to comply with email-based course requirements from the faculty. Faculty can, therefore, make the assumption that students’ official @student.stcc.edu accounts are being accessed by their student.

All use of email will be consistent with other College policies.