2.2.5 Social Media Usage Policy

Westmoreland County Community College currently operates accounts on several social media websites, including but not limited to, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, YouTube, and Pinterest. Westmoreland County Community College’s social presence is intended to provide the college
community with a venue to share thoughts, ideas, and experiences through discussions, postings, photos and videos. This policy addresses the college’s official presence on social media sites. In general, individual faculty or student pages are not included in this procedure; however, if an employee or student group at the college creates a page that could be affiliated with the college, the Marketing and Communications Department must be notified. The Marketing and Communications Department reserves the right to remove any posts on college-affiliated pages that are inconsistent with Westmoreland County Community College’s social media policy.

Disclaimer

The college abides by the following:

Westmoreland County Community College reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to screen and remove any content from any source that the college deems inappropriate. This includes, but is not limited to, content that harasses, abuses, threatens, or in any other way violates the rights of others, as well as commercial content whose purpose promotes selling a product, a service, or other such practices via the Westmoreland County Community College page. Although it may screen and remove content, Westmoreland County Community College is not responsible for the content posted by others on Westmoreland County Community College social media pages. The college also reserves the right to remove posts containing any and all links or posts that are deemed to be off-topic. In addition, Westmoreland County Community College upholds the Terms of Service standards administered by each social media site utilized by the college.

The college does not take any responsibility for pages developed by others or the content therein.

Oversight of all Westmoreland County Community College-affiliated pages is the responsibility of the Marketing and Communications Department, who will periodically review pages to ensure Westmoreland County Community College’s Internet/E-mail Usage Policy is followed and that the pages are being produced in accordance with the best interests of the college.