What is an affiliation?
An affiliation refers to how records relate to each other. Say you have a record for John Smith and one for Jane Smith and they are married. You can affiliate these records to each other as spouse and the records will be linked. You can view and manage your affiliations on a contact’s detail page.
Most affiliations are established by some formal agreement that is on file in a Vice-President, Vice-Provost, Provost, or President’s office. These agreements usually do not include any direct mention of information technology services, but they are often implied as part of the spirit of the agreement. In other cases, such as with contract workers, a Dean or a Director entered into an agreement with the individual or agency and, implied in that agreement is a need for the worker to have e-mail or some other information technology service. Adjunct professors, on the other hand, are generally recognized by the department chair and may or may not have an associated salary. In all cases, people seeking an account through ITS must identify their affiliation. Affiliations other than faculty, staff, or student, require an appropriately high level NAU Sponsor. In all cases it is the sponsor’s responsibility to assure that the resources granted are in NAU’s best interest and further the mission
