Common use of Acceptable Uses Clause in Contracts

Acceptable Uses. Activities that are part of the support infrastructure needed for instruction, scholarship and institutional management of the participant institutions. • Instructional applications engaged in by students, faculty and staff. • Communication and exchange for professional development, to maintain currency, or to debate issues in a field or sub-field of knowledge. • Subject matters/discipline associations, government-advisory, or standard activities related to the user's research, instructional and/or administrative activities. • Applying for or administering grants or contracts for instruction, professional infrastructure upgrades and student support services. • Announcements of new products or services used in instruction and institutional research. • Access to information resources, computers, and people throughout the world. • Interaction with students, faculty, and staff by electronic mail and other means of electronic communication. • Access to libraries, information resources, databases, and news from commercial, and non-commercial sources. • Importation of licensed software or other copyrighted material for fair use or with appropriate permission. • Administrative, academic, and research-related discussion groups. • E-commerce activities in support of the administrative and academic programs of participant institutions.

Acceptable Uses.  Activities that are part of the support infrastructure needed for instruction, scholarship and institutional management of the participant institutions. •  Instructional applications engaged in by students, faculty and staff. •  Communication and exchange for professional development, to maintain currency, or to debate issues in a field or sub-field of knowledge. •  Subject matters/discipline associations, government-advisory, or standard activities related to the user's research, instructional and/or administrative activities. •  Applying for or administering grants or contracts for instruction, professional infrastructure upgrades and student support services. •  Announcements of new products or services used in instruction and institutional research. •  Access to information resources, computers, and people throughout the world. •  Interaction with students, faculty, and staff by electronic mail and other means of electronic communication. •  Access to libraries, information resources, databases, and news from commercial, and non-commercial sources. •  Importation of licensed software or other copyrighted material for fair use or with appropriate permission. •  Administrative, academic, and research-related discussion groups. •  E-commerce activities in support of the administrative and academic programs of participant institutions.