Student Handbook - Computer Usage Policy

All users of DeVry networks and systems are expected to exercise responsibility in their use of hardware, software, and computer-based communications, including the Internet. Students are required to log in when accessing the network and to log out when leaving. Students are responsible for any actions conducted under their login. All rules and regulations in the DeVry Student Code of Conduct apply to computer usage. In addition, any student found to have committed computer-related misconduct is subject to the disciplinary sanctions outlined in the Student Code of Conduct. Computer-related misconduct includes, but is not limited to, the following:

1. Acts that infringe upon the privacy of others, such as copying, altering, or deleting shared files, e-mail, etc., without the express permission of the owner.

2. The use of any other person's written words, images, graphics, programming code, etc., as if they were one's own or without proper attribution or necessary permissions.

3. Libel, slander, or harassment of any person, whether intentional or unintentional. This includes, but is not limited to the following:
   • Using or displaying language or graphics that might be offensive to another
   • Contacting another person to annoy, harass, or bother.
   • Initiating or encouraging chain letters, mass postings, or other types of large-scale distributions.
   • Use of electronic communications to perpretate fraud, misrepresentation, or illegal activity.
   • Sending of electronic communications to any party who has expressed a desire not to receive such communications.

4. The use of campus computers or peripherals for activities with no authorized academic purpose. This includes but is not limited to game-playing, downloading of complex graphic, audio or video files, or printing personal documents.

5. Tampering, whether malicious or not, with network configurations, hardware, software, or peripherals.

6. "Hacking" or related behavior attempting to compromise the security of any computer system accessed through DeVry equipment or systems, whether successful or not.

7. Providing others with access to one's personal computer account(s) or gaining or attempting to gain access to the electronic information of others or to accounts, files, or systems to which authorized access has not been awarded.

8. Downloading or distributing to others commercial or copyrighted software or proprietary data which has not been placed in the public domain or been distributed as freeware.

Revision Date: February, 2006

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