Spring 2019
Committee:
Regional Affairs Committee
WHEREAS, the State Center Community College District gives students a temporary password for logging into student accounts to access academic management, linked school email addresses, and linked coursework;
WHEREAS, students have a right to privacy from other students maliciously comprising access to student accounts using a temporary password, as this would enable anyone with a student’s initials and birthday to connect to have full access to student academic management, linked school email addresses, and linked coursework, allowing the actor the ability to drop classes and fail another student’s quizzes;
WHEREAS, it must, for the security of students, be mandatory that a unique password be created by the student and, in the case that a temporary password be issued, not contain any discernible pattern;
WHEREAS, the incentive for support of this resolution lies in protecting the safety of students on campus, so that their experience may not be threatened by malicious actors with access to the student’s student ID, initials, and birthday or in any case that a temporary password contains any discernible pattern;
RESOLVED, that students enrolling in a community college be required to create a unique password for themselves regardless of any probability of losing access to their account due to forgetting the given password and allow for other means of resetting the password in such a case;
RESOLVED, that students are given a temporary password not based on any discernible pattern or pertaining to sensitive information insofar as initials, birthday, family members, or any combination of personal information assigned to the student in password form by the given community college is concerned; and
RESOLVED, that the Student Senate for California Community Colleges advocates for adding currently enrolled students to a pool of students that must change their login passwords over the next semester in the passing of this resolution insofar as ensuring a new level of security for current students that have maintained a vulnerable temporary password is concerned.
Citation: (2018). Student Login Instructions. Retrieved from https://www.scccd.edu/students/student- login-instructions.html
WHEREAS, students have a right to privacy from other students maliciously comprising access to student accounts using a temporary password, as this would enable anyone with a student’s initials and birthday to connect to have full access to student academic management, linked school email addresses, and linked coursework, allowing the actor the ability to drop classes and fail another student’s quizzes;
WHEREAS, it must, for the security of students, be mandatory that a unique password be created by the student and, in the case that a temporary password be issued, not contain any discernible pattern;
WHEREAS, the incentive for support of this resolution lies in protecting the safety of students on campus, so that their experience may not be threatened by malicious actors with access to the student’s student ID, initials, and birthday or in any case that a temporary password contains any discernible pattern;
RESOLVED, that students enrolling in a community college be required to create a unique password for themselves regardless of any probability of losing access to their account due to forgetting the given password and allow for other means of resetting the password in such a case;
RESOLVED, that students are given a temporary password not based on any discernible pattern or pertaining to sensitive information insofar as initials, birthday, family members, or any combination of personal information assigned to the student in password form by the given community college is concerned; and
RESOLVED, that the Student Senate for California Community Colleges advocates for adding currently enrolled students to a pool of students that must change their login passwords over the next semester in the passing of this resolution insofar as ensuring a new level of security for current students that have maintained a vulnerable temporary password is concerned.
Citation: (2018). Student Login Instructions. Retrieved from https://www.scccd.edu/students/student- login-instructions.html