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Facebook Etiquette for University Presidents
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What are college students most likely doing on their computers if they’re up at 3:30 a.m.? Probably wasting time on Facebook. (Or perhaps blogging about Facebook as I am now.) College presidents should probably try to kick that habit.

Dr. Janet Dudley-Eschbach, President of Salisbury University in Maryland, has been getting some heat after posting pictures from her family vacation on her Facebook profile. From a WBOC-TV report:

Among those was a picture of Dudley-Eshbach pointing a stick toward her daughter and a Hispanic man. 

The caption underneath the picture reads that Eshbach had to “beat off the Mexicans because they were constantly flirting with my daughter."

Another picture shows an animal, a tapir, and has a caption referring to the large size of the animal's genitalia.

The president has issued a statement noting that she’s taken down her profile. Shame we can’t all poke the president.



This is a fun story of Facebooking gone wild, but it sort of adds yet another chapter to the developing debate over how professors and university administrators should use Facebook.

Here are links to a piece in the Chronicle of Higher Education posing the question, "Should Professors Use Facebook?" and another in the Yale Daily News with the headline, "Profs now friendly on Facebook."

 


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