Texas A&M University-Commerce, through the World Wide Web (WWW), provides information about its activities and educational opportunities to an international audience including prospective students, faculty, staff, alumni, friends of the university and others. The university's presence on the web promotes opportunities to enhance research, scholarship, and instruction both within the university and with the wider community. As with all external communications, Texas A&M-Commerce's presence on the web should promote a positive image of the university to other universities, accrediting agencies, funding agencies, the media, prospective students, their families, and the public.

The University encourages all departments, faculty, and students to create and publish pages on the World Wide Web. A web page is a privilege and not a right, and must not be in violation of university, Texas A&M system, local, state, or federal rules, regulations, policies, or laws. The following are recommended minimum standards for web pages created and published on the Texas A&M-Commerce university computer system: 

1. At the bottom of each page, there should be a statement similar to the following:
    

    

   1. Page maintained by [mailto link for person creating page]
       

       

   2. Last updated on [date]
2. Pages must not violate University, Texas A&M system, state, or federal rules, policies, or laws, nor link directly to pages that do so. The Texas A&M-Commerce seal and logo may be used only in accordance with university policy.
    

    

3. Page creators must complete an on-line registration/acceptable use form, and then the page will be activated within one week. This applies to all pages on all university computers. Information about the URL for this registration form may be obtained from CTIS (the office of Computing, Telecommunication & Information Services).
    

    

4. Requests to maintain a web page on any university server should be referred to the assistant to the Director of CTIS, or other representative designated by the Director of CTIS. All web pages will reside on a university to be determined and/or approved by that CTIS representative.

1. Official Pages
    

    

   Central Pages
    

   1. are to be created by a person agreed upon and designated by the head of CTIS and the Director of Communication Services (to address both technical and public relations aspects of the web site).

   
   College/Divisional/Departmental pages
    

   1. are to be created by designated representative appointed by the head of the specific entity for which the page is to be created.

   
    

2. Personal Pages

    

   1. Each should include the following statement at the bottom of the page: 'The views and opinions expressed on this page are strictly those of the page author.'

   
    

3. Organizational Pages

    

   1. are to be created by a person designated by the university sponsor(as described above)

       

   2. should include the following statement at the bottom of the page: 'The views and opinions expressed on this page do not necessarily represent the views of the university.'

Intellectual Property
 
 

All members of the University community should be aware that property laws apply to the electronic environment. Users should assume that works communicated through a network are subject to copyright unless specifically stated otherwise. Unless permission of the author is obtained, utilization of any electronically transmitted information must comply with the "fair use" principle.

Oversight
 
 

A web team, appointed by the president, will have oversight authority, address concerns, amend university web rules as needed, and address any appeals that result from web page concerns.

Unless otherwise designated, final control over all web pages and their content shall rest with the university's director of CTIS, who shall have the authority to deactivate any web page for cause. The author and supervisor of such deactivated material will be notified of such action and the reason within 24 hours after the deactivation. Persons wishing to appeal such a decision, may do so to the web committee.