As a vibrant academic community, the School encourages active engagement in a range of activities, intellectual pursuits, causes and the like, including social, political, religious and civic-oriented groups, blogs/vlogs, etc. At the same time, an individual’s right to participate in these groups must be balanced with the School’s right to manage public communications issues in its name or on its behalf.
When posting messages to blogs/vlogs (i.e., meant to broadly include a variety of online discussion forums), employees may not state or imply their connection to the School in any way without prior written consent of the HOS. Doing so will subject the employee to disciplinary action that may result in termination.
Example: If an employee chooses to post a personal message on a blog/vlog, he/she must not sign the post, “Jane Smith, faculty member, Geneva School of Boerne,” but rather “Jane Smith.”
Similarly, when making personal, non-work-related posts to blogs/vlogs, employees may not use their school email address or other tags related to the School in the message or for reply purposes, to avoid implying approval of the message’s content by Geneva.