Re: Email forwarding for former faculty?

[Theresa Rowe <rowe () OAKLAND EDU>]

We provide full email for one year after termination.  We do have
experiences with some unfortunate situations where a faculty member
continued to represent themselves as being part of the university, and
hence the one year limit for those who depart in good standing.  We also
will cut the account off if there is abusive behavior before the one year
limit.

Retired faculty may be identified with a particular standing, per the
contract, so that they continue to have an email account, but it is limited
to a few faculty members in a particular class.
Theresa

On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 6:32 PM, Bob Bayn <bob.bayn () usu edu> 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


-- 
Theresa Rowe
Chief Information Officer
Oakland University