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Wesleyan University seeks to ensure that its treatment and use of personally identifiable information complies with all applicable federal and state statutes and regulations while demonstrating the University’s commitment to maximizing privacy. Personally identifiable information (“PI”) is considered information which can identify and provide information about an individual that can compromise their personal privacy or […]

  APPLICATION: All individuals on whom the University has or maintains personal information and all University associated individuals controlling or having access to personal information described herein. ISSUED:  October 1, 2008 UPDATED:  October 14, 2010 Steve Machuga, Director of Administrative Systems, ITS, Wesleyan University Purpose. Wesleyan University seeks to ensure that its treatment and use […]

  APPLICATION: All individuals on whom the University has or maintains personal information and all University associated individuals controlling or having access to personal information described herein. ISSUED:  October 1, 2008 UPDATED:  October 14, 2010 Steve Machuga, Director of Administrative Systems, ITS, Wesleyan University Purpose. Wesleyan University seeks to ensure that its treatment and use […]

  APPLICATION: All individuals on whom the University has or maintains personal information and all University associated individuals controlling or having access to personal information described herein. ISSUED:  October 1, 2008 UPDATED:  October 14, 2010 Steve Machuga, Director of Administrative Systems, ITS, Wesleyan University Purpose. Wesleyan University seeks to ensure that its treatment and use […]

We’ve just added a couple plugins with some handy functionality The “SlideShare” plugin lets you easily embed slide presentations hosted on, well, SlideShare The “Hackadelic SEO Table Of Contents” plugin lets you drop a table of contents into any post or page simply by adding a [toc] shortcode anywhere on the page. The table is […]

“blog960” is the name of the WordPress theme we developed to harmonize with the new Wesleyan web site. As of this afternoon, the blog960 theme supports three columns. When you go to the Appearance > Widgets page you will now see that there are two sidebar areas. If you add items to the second sidebar, […]

The Google Email Uploader for Windows will easily migrate your mail and contacts from a locally installed mail client such as Outlook or Thunderbird to an active Gmail account.  To use the program with Wesleyan’s GMail implementation, download the application either from Wesfiles or from Google directly.  Note that if you are on Exchange but […]

As mentioned in the previous post, the My Page Order plugin had fallen behind on some of the recent WPMU upgrades so that on some sites we were having to set the order by hand on each page. The new version of the plugin is available now, and it has many configurational options. The only […]

Looking around University Relations and Admissions or on the desks of student workers in Student Activities and Residential Life, one sees the desktop replaced with a small, lightweight thin client. Computing veterans recall the days of “dumb” terminals and ponder the idea that technology has come full circle.  However, many users are confused by this […]

To copy a file or folder within WesFiles: Check the box next to the file or folder you wish to copy and click on the “Copy” button above the file listing (OR: right-/control-click on the name of the file and choose “Copy” from the context menu) Click on the arrow to the right of the […]