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The CUNY Academic Commons is part of the City University of New York. We are dedicated to the free expression of our users in a collaborative and sharing environment. We are a community that seeks to use the Academic Commons as a means of fulfilling our highest aspirations for integrating technology into our teaching, learning, and collaborating.

We reserve only the rights necessary to facilitate the dissemination of content and material on this Site. We support the intellectual property rights of the authors of those materials. We also support the use of open source software and the widespread dissemination and use of online materials consistent with the rights of our users and applicable law.

Members of the faculty, administration, staff, and graduate students of the City University of New York may register on the Site. We will take all reasonable measures to keep information and users safe.

We hope your experience with the CUNY Academic Commons will be enjoyable and productive.

The CUNY Academic Commons is located at http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/.

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    Please read these Terms of Use carefully as they govern our mutual rights and responsibilities when you use the resources and services provided by the CUNY Academic Commons (also referred to as the “Commons” or “Site” or collectively as “we” or “us” or “our”).

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