Mike, our approach is the same as yours. That said, it's not because of any significant legal obstacle. In fact, we have a policy that you're not allowed on our network without an account (even if we don’t force you to log in, there is supposed to be some method to identify the user, such as requiring physical access controls for a wired port). We make the resident students with dependents agree to this policy, then put them in a situation where they are forced to violate or their family will not have network access.
We considered three solutions to this problem: 1. Change the policy to exempt on-campus residences housing dependents. That would be easy, but it would be ugly, and at odds with the intent of our policy and sound practice. 2. We explored this with our Risk, Legal, and Identity Management staff. Everybody concluded that on-campus residency was sufficient to warrant issuing an account, and that we were better off providing university wireless with suitable access controls than we were to turn this responsibility over to the students. The only thing we needed to address to implement it was a tweak to the accounts office processes for issuing accounts such that the student parent or guardian would agree to the network use terms and conditions for their non-student minor dependents. We shifted our schedule around to move those buildings to the end of the project to provide time for the account process change, but no change was ever implemented. 3. Much as you said, we could treat them like apartments and let the local ISPs provide services to these buildings. We considered this option viable, but thought that letting the family members use our network was preferable for both us and them. Chuck Enfield Manager, Wireless Engineering Enterprise Networking & Communication Services The Pennsylvania State University 110H, USB2, UP, PA 16802 ph: 814.863.8715 fx: 814.865.3988 -----Original Message----- From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Michael Davis Sent: Friday, September 15, 2017 7:42 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] Campus Wireless in Married or Family Student housing I was wondering if anyone had policies or thoughts on wireless service in Married/Family student housing? We've had an informal policy of not providing it and treating the units as "apartments" where the residents can purchase and install their own residential wifi. The thought process (as handed down in oral history) is that servicing the APs in areas containing non-University students, had legal implications,etc.. The physical Apt's are in a "townhouse" style, and the university maintains the maintenance areas between units and even has Wired networking service to them. We've been asked to review the policy and was looking for any input on the subject. thanks mike -- Mike Davis Systems Programmer V NSS - University of Delaware - 302.831.8756 Newark, DE 19716 Email [email protected] ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/discuss. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/discuss.
