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Updating Personal Information in the Campus Directories

Student, Faculty & Staff Directory Updates

Students, faculty, and staff: Use the "dirinfo" service to update personal directory information. Log in using your RCS ID and password. Depending on your status as a student or employee of Rensselaer, you may not be able to edit all fields in the directories.

Students: See also the Student Information System for updates to other personal information.

Departmental Directory Updates

Departmental directory administrators: Log in to dirinfo to update directory information for your department.

To see the names of the directory administrators, search for your organization in the campus directories. Note to admins: a link to the dirinfo pages can also be found at the bottom of every departmental listing in the campus directories.

Students: See also the Student Information System for updates to other personal information.

Suppressing Directory Information

Students, faculty and staff may suppress directory information in the "dirinfo" update process.

If you have requested that the suppression of your name, address, or other personal information from the campus directories, or have applied for a higher level of protection under the FERPA regulations, you cannot register your home page. You may create a home page, keep it in your "public_html" directory and it will be world-readable but it will not be added to RPInfo's listings.

Guests and Alumni

Sorry, but RPInfo does not maintain any directory information for alumni or guests of Rensselaer. Alumni may want to visit AlumServ.

Registering Home Pages

Home pages included with your directory information should observe the following guidelines:

  1. ENTER THE ENTIRE URL (i.e., the Web address), such as: http://www.rpi.edu/~userid/.
  2. Include the protocol [http://] and doublecheck it! Any mistakes will result in broken links.
  3. The RPInfo server assumes that home pages are named index.html. If your home page is not named index.html (note the full file extension!), add the home page file name to the end of your URL, such as: http://www.rpi.edu/~userid/filename.html

See the Help Desk for more information about creating home pages in the RCS environment.