President Dennison mandates the use of University of Montana e-mail

If you’re a University of Montana student, you’ve got mail from President George Dennison.

UM administrators are implementing changes this July mandating that all “official” UM business be conducted strictly through the University e-mail system. The project will also update the University’s aging archive system. The archiving system would archive all e-mails, even those that come from external accounts. UM attorney David Aronofsky said that the changes would mean more safety for UM faculty, staff and students.

“Last year, a faculty member from the Butte campus was receiving threatening e-mails,” Aronofsky said. “If we’d had this system then, we might have been able to find the people threatening him.”

UM Executive Vice President Jim Foley said he thought the changes would be welcome ones at UM.

“We need a central way to contact everyone on campus and right now we can’t do that,” Foley said. “Right now there are many faculty members and students that don’t use campus e-mail at all.”

The changes will take effect July 1.

Story by Chandra Johnson
Montana Kaimin

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