Re: Discontinuing student email service

[Ken Connelly <Ken.Connelly () UNI EDU>]

Matthew Gracie wrote:
> Hall, Rand wrote:
>
> > On the heels of another student email outsourcing question...it has
> > occurred to me that some of us may want to step back and reflect on
> > the following question:
> >
> > Why do we still provide student email accounts?
> >
> > We once provided labs full of typewriters and then computers. We used
> > to provide our own dialup service. Once these things were
> > commoditized we were able to largely eliminate them. Do student email
> > accounts fall into the same lifecycle pattern?
>
> I can't speak for anyone else, but here at Canisius, the
> college-provided email address is an official point of contact for
> departments like the library, the registrar's office, and the bursar's
> office. It's used in our CMS, our class-specific email lists, and a
> dozen other places.
>
> Getting rid of it would mean either lots more postal mail or coming up
> with some backend database of student's voluntarily provided home email
> addresses. I shudder at the thought of maintaining that mess.
>
> --Matt
SECOND!!!

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- Ken
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Ken Connelly             Associate Director, Security and Systems
ITS Network Services                  University of Northern Iowa
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