Harvard professors furious that their email is being secretly monitored
This is routine in corporate America, of course, there is no expectation of privacy with business email accounts. Not that there *shouldn't* be. This is just another symptom of our war on whistleblowers.
Harvard E-Mail Search Stuns Faculty Members - NYTimes.com
“I was shocked and dismayed,” said the law professor Charles J. Ogletree. “I hope that it means the faculty will now have something to say about the fact that these things like this can happen.”
News of the e-mail searches prolonged the fallout from the cheating scandal, in which about 70 students were forced to take a leave from school for collaborating or plagiarizing on a take-home final exam in a government class last year.
Harry R. Lewis, a professor and former dean of Harvard College, said, “People are just bewildered at this point, because it was so out of keeping with the way we’ve done things at Harvard.”
“I think what the administration did was creepy,” said Mary C. Waters, a sociology professor, adding that “this action violates the trust I once had that Harvard would never do such a thing.”
