Re: Email forwarding for former faculty?

[Mike Iglesias <iglesias () UCI EDU>]

On 04/13/2015 03:32 PM, Bob Bayn wrote:
> When a faculty member ends employment with your institution /on good terms/,
> either for a position elsewhere or retirement (emeritus) status, do you
> provide an email forwarding service from their long established (and probably
> published) email address at your institution?  For how long? At what cost?
>
> It would seem to support academic progress and long term professional
> associations to do so and be of minimal cost.  Graduates could more easily
> contact former instructors/mentors for letters of reference and other
> occasional communications.  Professional relationships could be maintained and
> renewed more easily as people move between institutions.  Many retired faculty
> maintain research interests and contributions to professional organizations.
>
> The only risk that is apparent to me is that former faculty could attempt to
> represent themselves as still employed at their former institution and may
> appear to "speak for" that institution.  That seems to me to be a tiny risk
> for faculty who have separated on good terms.

Retirees get to keep their IDs and email accounts forever if they request it.
 Faculty who leave UCI for another institution or the private sector get to
keep their IDs 90 days, then the ID is deleted.


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