Student communication with the School of Physician Assistant Studies is routinely accomplished via email communications. Therefore, students will be expected to check their University of Florida email accounts daily for essential communications. Email responses when necessary are expected promptly (within 24 hours). To avoid problems with receiving critical messages from the School due to exceeding your Gatormail email quota, delete old messages and clear your browser cache regularly. Each student will be responsible for any consequences resulting from the School’s inability to deliver emails due to mismanagement of the email account. Failure to comply with the email policy will be considered an infraction of the SPAS professionalism standards.
When communicating with the School, it is SPAS policy that only the University of Florida email accounts will be recognized for student communication. This is important because emails originating from third-party accounts/services, such as Yahoo and others, are frequently routed to quarantine or spam folders. In these cases, the recipient may not be notified of the email until a later date when the quarantine folder contents are reviewed. The University of Florida policy allows emails to be forwarded to on-campus or alternate email addresses. If a student wishes to use such a service, please ensure that the student’s GatorLink email account is displayed as the sender’s identification when responding to emails. If the sender’s identification does not reflect the student’s GatorMail account, it may be sent to a quarantine folder and not replied to within an appropriate time frame. University of Florida policies regarding email forwarding and computing resources, including security and privacy issues, can be found at:
● http://www.it.ufl.edu/policies/aupolicy.html
● http://www.it.ufl.edu/policies/forwarding.html