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Re: Email forwarding for former faculty?


From: "Hubert, Wesley R." <whubert () KU EDU>
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2015 12:36:32 +0000

We provide lifetime email for retirees and up to 210 days after separation
for others who leave the university except in special circumstances where an
address may be disabled immediately.

--Wes Hubert <whubert () ku edu>
IT Architect, Identity Services Development
Information Technology
The University of Kansas, Lawrence KS 66045

From:  Donald Welch <djwelch () UMICH EDU>
Reply-To:  The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv
<SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU>
Date:  Monday, April 13, 2015 at 9:23 PM
To:  "SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU" <SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU>
Subject:  Re: [SECURITY] Email forwarding for former faculty?

We provide e-mail for life.  The security risk is that many of the addresses
are not used, but then they get compromised. It is addition work to address
compromised accounts and if we are not quick enough, it hurts our standing
in the various black lists.
Cheers,
Don


Donald J. Welch, Ph.D.
Chief Information Security Officer
University of Michigan
734-615-0334

On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 8:23 PM, Ken Connelly <ken.connelly () uni edu> wrote:
We permit emeritus retirees, both faculty and P&S staff, to retain their
uni.edu <http://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 <tel:%28435%29797-2396>     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

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--
- Ken
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Ken Connelly             Associate Director, Security and Systems
ITS Network Services                  University of Northern Iowa
email: Ken.Connelly () uni edu   p: (319) 273-5850 <tel:%28319%29%20273-5850>  f:
(319) 273-7373 <tel:%28319%29%20273-7373>

Any request to divulge your UNI password via e-mail is fraudulent!



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