Re: Email forwarding for former faculty?

["David A. Grose" <dgrose () WPCC EDU>]

We have had that discussion here, with the same exact pros and cons.  We have just recently switched our faculty and 
staff over to Office 365 and will move our students over from Google this summer.  Our plan is to move ALL previous 
students, faculty, and staff (in good standing) from "@wpcc.edu" to "@alumni.wpcc.edu".  This way they get to keep 
their email address with a minor alteration and we feel comfortable misrepresentation is less likely.


David A. Grose, Network Security Specialist
Western Piedmont Community College
1001 Burkemont Avenue, Morganton, NC 28655-4511
Phone: (828) 448-3149  Fax: 828-448-6141
dgrose () wpcc edu<mailto:dgrose () wpcc edu>

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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
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