Facebook Mission and Policy
September 2009

Mission and Goals of Earlham's Facebook Page

Earlham College created an institutional Facebook page (1) to provide a forum for the larger Earlham community to share thoughts about, enthusiasm for and memories of the College, (2) to enable our community to stay connected to the College and to each other regardless of their location, and (3) to provide continual updates about the activities and accomplishments of the College and its students, faculty and alumni.

Facebook Policy

Earlham's Facebook page offers the opportunity to dialog freely about issues of personal, local, national or international interest or importance within a social network who understands the value of our extended community.

Information shared within the Earlham Facebook page will not be collected by the College for any other use. From time to time, Public Affairs may invite various College teaching faculty, administrators, students, staff or page fans to participate in the page.

Fans of Earlham's Facebook page agree to

• Respect the Terms provided by Facebook. See Facebook's Rights and Responsibilities and Facebook Principles. Entries on Facebook may not infringe upon the rights of others or violate the law.
• Adhere to the College Community's Principles and Practices when posting content to Facebook. The ideal of "Practicing Respect for Persons" is important to our approach to appropriate Facebook content.
• Respect intellectual property rights as presented in the College's Copyright Policy and by Facebook when procuring and using photographs, illustrations, audio, video files or the written work of other individuals. Facebook emphasizes adherence to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Permissions must be obtained and credit given where necessary when incorporating the work of others.

Any individual participating as a fan to Earlham's page may notify pressroom@earlham.edu if, in that person's opinion, an entry is not in keeping with these guidelines. The Public Affairs staff will work with the individual(s) involved to resolve the situation. Entries that do not adhere to this policy will be removed from the Earlham Facebook page upon our notification. When the guidelines specified by Facebook are violated, participants are free to notify

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