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University Policy is a rule that has been officially sanctioned
by the president of Carnegie Mellon University, and that
generally has university-wide applicability. A policy may
include governing principles, it may either mandate or constrain
action, it may ensure compliance with laws, or it may mitigate
the university's risk. It must be approved by the President's
Council, a senior-level decision-making body of Carnegie Mellon,
and ultimately by the president, before it becomes official
policy.  Many departmental or divisional procedures and
guidelines, although useful and important, do not meet the
criteria above, and therefore they are not co