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SAIS Connect: Guidelines

  1. Please do not include or CC outside email addresses when sending or replying to a message within SAIS Connect.
  2. When replying to a message, remember that your response will be viewed by the entire group. If you wish to reply to only an individual, look for link entitled “Reply to sender privately” at the bottom of any email notification. Or if you’re viewing the message on the SAIS Connect website, click their name and look for the ‘Message’ button.
  3. Send thank you messages to individuals privately, not to the entire list.
  4. Use clear, descriptive subjects for your messages. When you initiate a new discussion or request, an appropriate subject line will help garner better responses.
  5. Please review and follow the terms of use.
  6. If you have questions about the SAIS Connect, email data@sais.org.
  7. At the bottom of every SAIS Connect email you’ll see a link to “modify your subscription.” The default setting is to receive each SAIS Connect message as it is sent, but you may modify your settings to receive few notifications.
  8. SAIS Connect is a place to exchange ideas and are to be free from solicitations.
  9. ANTI–TRUST AWARENESS: There is a chance that some conversations may slip into areas that broach on anti-trust, anti-competitive practices, price fixing, or another subject that could jeopardize the group. AVOID questions/conversations that have to do with any of the following: fees (tuition increases, salaries, charges for auxiliary operations, etc), raises (specific compensation, raise amounts, etc), dividing customers or territories (in our case, this would mostly apply to students and offers of admissions), and personnel issues or issues that identify an individual. This is not meant to be an exhaustive list, but to provide a basis for the members to police each other and to provide the grounds under which SAIS might suspend a channel.
    Those violating any of these guidelines may have their access privileges temporarily or permanently suspended.

Improve the Discussion

Help us make this a great place for discussion by always working to improve the discussion in some way, however small. If you are not sure your post adds to the conversation, think over what you want to say and try again later.

The topics discussed here matter to us, and we want you to act as if they matter to you, too. Be respectful of the topics and the people discussing them, even if you disagree with some of what is being said.

One way to improve the discussion is by discovering ones that are already happening. Spend time browsing the topics here before replying or starting your own, and you’ll have a better chance of meeting others who share your interests.

Be Agreeable, Even When You Disagree

You may wish to respond to something by disagreeing with it. That’s fine. But remember to criticize ideas, not people. Please avoid:

  • Name-calling
  • Ad hominem attacks
  • Responding to a post’s tone instead of its actual content
  • Knee-jerk contradiction

Instead, provide reasoned counter-arguments that improve the conversation.

Your Participation Counts

The conversations we have here set the tone for every new arrival. Help us influence the future of this community by choosing to engage in discussions that make this forum an interesting place to be — and avoiding those that do not.

SAIS Connect provides tools that enable the community to collectively identify the best (and worst) contributions: bookmarks, likes, flags, replies, edits, and so forth. Use these tools to improve your own experience, and everyone else’s, too.