E-mail: Official Communication at Ohio Dominican University

Effective 7/1/03 electronic mail, or e-mail, is considered an official means of communication at Ohio Dominican University (ODU).

• All students, faculty and staff will have an assigned ODU e-mail account (ex. username@ohiodominican.edu).

• Individuals will be considered to be duly informed and in receipt of notifications and correspondences sent by a University administrator, staff, or faculty delivered to an employee's or student's University e-mail account.

• Accessing University-assigned e-mail accounts for official information is not optional - all are responsible for the consequences of not reading in a timely fashion University-related communications sent to their Ohio Dominican University e-mail account.

• If one chooses, official ODU e-mail may be directed to another email account; however, the University is not responsible for delivery problems of e-mail to non-official e-mail accounts or unofficial servers.

• All are responsible for managing their ODU disk quota such that there is room for new mail to arrive and for forwarding their ODU e-mail account to a functioning alternative e-mail address.

• Having e-mail lost because of forwarding does not absolve a student or employee from the responsibilities associated with communication sent to his or her official e-mail address.

More information on the ODU E-mail Policy can be found in the ODU Handbook.