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Originally Issued: September 2014

Statement of Purpose

The purpose of this policy is to:

  • Facilitate communication among all members of the campus community.
  • Ensure email services are provided to all employees of the university in support of the teaching, learning, and research mission of the university and the administrative functions necessary to carry out that mission.
  • Ensure email communications conducted by employees for university business purposes meet statutory requirements for State of Nevada employees.

Entities Affected by this Policy

Entities affected by this policy include all UNLV employees.

Who Should Read this Policy

All UNLV employees should read this policy.

Policy

All university employees will be provided a university-issued email account. University business conducted via email by UNLV employees must be conducted using a university-issued email account. Employees may not redirect email from their university-issued account.

Definitions

Redirect

Configuring an email account to send messages automatically to a different email account.

University business

Activities carried out in support of the teaching, learning, and research mission of the university and the administrative functions necessary to carry out that mission.

University employees

For purposes of this policy only university employees are defined as all individuals with an employment contract with the university of 90 days or more.

University-issued email account

The @unlv.edu email account provided to all university employees.