Classroom Confidential 120 77 37 Should professors have any expectation of email privacy?
An interesting question, I teach businesses classes and privately owned property, like computers and all data within, is of course owned by said business. Interesting to consider that anyone who admittedly says "she probably wrote the email too quickly upon hearing her students couldn't access the site, without sufficient explanation of her political reference." My question is of course why in hell is she interjecting personal political opinion into a geography lesson? Why on earth should she expect a right to privacy? Why should she get a pass on sloppy communication? She is a professor for crying out loud.
1. the right to privacy. emails are a special kind of communication in that once 'enter' is hit, an email cannot be wiped, any user should be ready for permanent public exposure of the content.
2. the opinion expressed in the email. Wrong, right, clever or not, the email was business and should stick with that.
Regardless of 1. There are emails by a Michael Mann that Penn State U is trying very hard to suppress even tho' they are public property.
yes, consequences.
I am glad our system worked well in this case. give the student who took a pic of her email a journalism degree.