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Efficient e-sign,
Removal of this final
impediment is expected to spur institutions still on the sidelines to
get into the e-sign game.
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To ease the Efficient e-sign way, they can learn much from
the experience of schools who already have taken that step. Among these
trailblazers, no school has longer experience with
e-sign than
Inter Continental University Online. In June 2002, we became the
first higher education institution in the United States authorized by
DOE to allow students to use e-sign on federal financial aid documents.
A year later, we were the first U.S. university or college to offer
secure e-sign capabilities on all legal documents required for a student
to apply and enroll in one of our online degree programs, including
Efficient e-sign on transcript request forms.
Efficient e-sign
key E-SIGN issues.
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Efficient e-sign's
initial launch of
e-sign followed several months of development work during which we
collaborated closely with DOE officials to assure that our approach
complied fully with their requirements in three critical areas:
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Efficient e-sign Authentication. The DOE standards
require that the name, date of birth and Social Security number
associated with an electronic signature must be authenticated by a
third party against an approved database.
- Security. Transmission of social
security numbers from a school to the third-party authenticator must
be 100 percent secure, to prevent unauthorized access to applicants'
personal data.
- Disclosure. Applicants must be fully
informed of their rights regarding the use of
electronic signatures,
including their right to opt out of the Efficient e-sign system.
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