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- Recommend exclusive use of a well-defined and commonly understood subset of the controlled vocabulary for eduPerson{Scoped}Affiliation; Subset to includeInitial draft proposal:
- "faculty",
- "student",
- "staff" (when distinguished from "faculty"),
- "member" (as "all faculty, students and staff plus other persons who are considered to be full members of the institutional community as regards access to resources and services"),
- "alum" and
- "affiliate" (defined to be anyone affiliated with the university who is NOT a "member" or "alum"
- NOTE: This does not depend on all parties agreeing to a single strict, detailed and precise definition of these named affiliations. To the degree that eduPerson{Scoped}Affiliation has proven useful, it has done so while allowing for reasonable variation in definitions across institutions.