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Re: Email forwarding for former faculty?
From: Miguel Angel Gonzalez de la Torre <mglez () ITESM MX>
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2015 01:45:18 +0000
Hello. Here at ITESM we give emeritus an option to keep the email, but no other services. But we check for activity every now and then. For faculty that leave, they get the email for 8 months, time enough to return to other semester (skipping one). Then all the services and credentials are disable. Here the risk is that a person can use the active email to speak of a job relationship when there is not, so is kind of legal issue. And the risk of the email reputation if the account is compromised, as Don has remarked. Hope it helps. Ing. Miguel Angel González de la Torre, MCC Director Seguridad de la Información Dirección de Tecnologías de Información Contáctame por Lync<sip:mglez () itesm mx> Tel.: 52 (81) 8158 2000, ext. 2936. Fax: 81 81582287 Enlace intercampus: 80-689-2936. From: The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of Bob Bayn Sent: lunes, 13 de abril de 2015 05:32 p. m. To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU Subject: [SECURITY] Email forwarding for former faculty? 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>
Current thread:
- Email forwarding for former faculty? Bob Bayn (Apr 13)
- Re: Email forwarding for former faculty? Mike Iglesias (Apr 13)
- Re: Email forwarding for former faculty? Sprague, Randy (Apr 14)
- Re: Email forwarding for former faculty? Ken Connelly (Apr 13)
- Re: Email forwarding for former faculty? Donald Welch (Apr 13)
- Re: Email forwarding for former faculty? Hubert, Wesley R. (Apr 14)
- Re: Email forwarding for former faculty? Donald Welch (Apr 13)
- Re: Email forwarding for former faculty? Miguel Angel Gonzalez de la Torre (Apr 13)
- Re: Email forwarding for former faculty? David A. Grose (Apr 14)
- Re: Email forwarding for former faculty? Thomas Carter (Apr 14)
- Re: Email forwarding for former faculty? Theresa Rowe (Apr 14)
- Re: Email forwarding for former faculty? Mike Iglesias (Apr 13)