Tracy Mitrano, Director of IT Policy and Computer Policy & Law Program
The IT Policy Office facilitates the development of university-level IT policies through the University Policy Office, and educates the Cornell community on matters of law and policy in the electronic realm. This office also actively participates in discussion on matters of law and policy in information technologies for colleges and universities nationally through institutes, conferences, invited speaking engagements, publications, consultation and national list service communications.
Recent and Featured Articles
- Q + A with Tracy Mitrano on Building a Global University, Berkman Center for Internet Law & Society at Harvard Law School, April 21, 2008
- The Why and How of Web Accessibility, EDUCAUSE Live!, April 4, 2008
- Facebook 2.0, EDUCAUSE Review, March/April 2008
- Thoughts on Facebook, April 2006
Cornell University is piloting a high-quality Copyright Education Program for first time offenders of copyright infringement, and may later deploy this program proactively for all students.
Written by the IT Policy Office, produced and powered by e-Cornell, this demo program is available free of charge for sample viewing. When you go to the link you will find the landing page shown below. The IT Policy Office authored a core curriculum upon which this demo product is based.
Try it out and let us know what you think! www.ecornell.com/copyrightdemo
The Policy Office maintains several web sites of public information:
- University IT Policy and Process: including status of proposed changes to university-level IT policies that are currently undergoing review.
- University Computer Policy and Law Program: workshops and lectures on topics such as copyright, privacy, and security
- Issues of Law and Policy in Higher Education
- Social Networking: Thoughts on Facebook - how students can use it wisely, and issues that affect higher education
- Electronic Surveillance: the USA Patriot Act and beyond - potential implications for information technologies in colleges and universities
- Copyright Issues in the Electronic Realm: Digital Millennium Copyright Act announcements and related information
- Privacy in the Electronic Realm: policies and articles that address the issue of electronic privacy on the Cornell campus.
- Articles and Presentations related to university IT policy and law
Programs
In collaboration with EDUCAUSE, Cornell University sponsors the EDUCAUSE/Cornell Institute for Computer Policy and Law. This Institute maintains a web site devoted to relevant issues and developments in the area, together with a comprehensive institutional IT policy library, a national list service and the Annual Summer Seminar in Ithaca, which hosts people from around the country, and world, in a four-day extensive tutorial and discussion on topics such as Internet law and governance, ISP liability, privacy and security, digital copyright, institutional IT policy development.
The University Computer Policy and Law Program offers programming and discussion forum for the Cornell campus and regional community in these same areas (as Internet law and governance, ISP liability, privacy and security, digital copyright) with a particular emphasis on the promulgation, implementation and education of the new information technology policies.
The IT Policy office chairs the IT Policy Advisory Group, a representative, collective body of faculty, students and staff (including many network administrators) and stakeholder administrative offices such as audit, budget and planning, university counsel, human resources, university policy office, Cornell University police and judicial administration, as well as representatives from faculty and students, to discuss the substance and implementation schemes for university level policy in information technologies.
The IT Policy office also is the seat of the Cornell University Registered Copyright Agent under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 (see the copyright issues page). In conjunction with University Counsel and Judicial Administration, this office oversees the development of compliance procedures, monitors the implementation of the these procedures through the network operations center, manages the issuance of annual DMCA messages to the university community and oversees the development and content of the Travelers of the Electronic Highway workshop on matters of IT Policy generally, and copyright compliance in particular.
Related Links
Cornell policy links
Computer Policy and Law links
- University Computer Policy and Law Program at Cornell
- Institute for Computer Policy and Law (ICPL) Annual Seminar, held in Ithaca every summer
- EDUCAUSE/Cornell Institute for Computer Policy and Law