UGA removes files from server after finding sensitive third-party information
University officials have discovered that a student improperly stored sensitive third-party information on one of its servers in violation of UGA’s computer-use policy. An ongoing internal investigation has revealed that the violation, which was discovered March 10, is limited to a server in the New Media Institute.
Upon discovering the policy violation, the university immediately removed student files from the NMI server, securing the sensitive information, which appeared to belong to a North Carolina corporation. University officials are attempting to contact all affected parties, whose data was apparently collected by the corporation, to inform them of the exposure.
“The sensitive information located in the student’s file was not collected by UGA and does not contain or compromise student, faculty or staff records,” says UGA Provost Arnett C. Mace Jr. “At no time was any UGA data compromised.”
According to Scott Shamp, director of the NMI, the intended use of the server is to store portfolio materials students produce as coursework in the NMI. Upon graduation, they are able to share the material with prospective employers.
While in the past there has been no time limit on how long student materials are stored online once a student graduates, Shamp and UGA technology experts are planning to implement a 30-day policy immediately.
Spring enrollment tops 32,000
Spring semester enrollment at UGA totals 32,013, a decrease of 316 students from spring semester of 2004.
The one percent decline still places this spring’s enrollment higher than for any year prior to 2004. The drop follows a 1.4 percent decrease in enrollment for last fall semester, which reflected a lower first-year enrollment than the all-time high set the previous fall.
The spring total includes an on-campus enrollment of 23,156 undergraduate students, 6,103 graduate students and 1,565 students enrolled in the professional schools of law, pharmacy and veterinary medicine.
In addition, the total includes 896 undergraduate and graduate students attending classes at Gwinnett University Center, 40 students attending classes at UGA’s Tifton center and
253 students enrolled in independent study.
On-campus undergraduate enrollment decreased by 372 students, or 1.6 percent, from last year, while on-campus graduate enrollment dropped by only three students. Enrollment in professional schools is up by 24 students, or 1.6 percent.
S.C. judge will give Edith House Lecture
Chief Justice Jean Hoefer Toal, the first and only woman to serve on the Supreme Court of South Carolina, will deliver the 23rd annual Edith House Lecture. Entitled, “Women in the Law,” the lecture will be given March 24 at 3:30 p.m. in the Hatton Lovejoy Courtroom at the School of Law. It is open to the public, and admission is free. Toal has served on the South Carolina Supreme Court since 1988 and became chief justice in 2000. As a Supreme Court justice, she has written opinions on a variety of issues in both civil and criminal cases and authored Appellate Practice in South Carolina with two of her law clerks.
The Edith House Lecture Series, hosted annually by the Women Law Students Association, is named for one of the first female graduates of the UGA School of Law. A native of Winder, House was co-valedictorian of the law class of 1925, the first class to graduate women. | |
