Re: Email forwarding for former faculty?

[Ken Connelly <ken.connelly () UNI EDU>]

We permit emeritus retirees, both faculty and P&S staff, to retain their
uni.edu email account for as long as they wish.  Since we're all on
google apps for education, there isn't much of a resource drain other
than occasional help with a password.

- ken

On 4/13/15 5:32 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.
>
>
>
> Bob Bayn      SER 301      (435)797-2396    IT Security Team
> Office of Information Technology,         Utah State University
>     Do you know the "*/Skeptical Hover Technique/*" and
>     how to tell where a web link really goes?  See:
>    https://it.usu.edu/computer-security/computer-security-threats/articleID=23737
> <%20https://it.usu.edu/computer-security/computer-security-threats/articleID=23737>

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- Ken
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Ken Connelly             Associate Director, Security and Systems
ITS Network Services                  University of Northern Iowa
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