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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> ITSecurity TeamOffice 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>-- - Ken ================================================================= 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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- 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)