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Re: Student/Staff Email
From: Bob Bayn <bob.bayn () USU EDU>
Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2015 18:49:33 +0000
Our branded gmail (aggiemail.usu.edu) is permanently available to anyone with a university ID number - students, staff,
alumni, emeriti, etc. However, @usu.edu addresses (on our Exchange server) are only available to current employees,
although they can be used for personal communications. Transitioning the personal use at the end of employment can be
problematic so we tend to recommend that employees have another email (even aggiemail) for their long term personal use.
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
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From: The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv [SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] on behalf of Spaller, Mary
E. [MESpaller () MILLIGAN EDU]
Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2015 11:27 AM
To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
Subject: Re: [SECURITY] Student/Staff Email
Back on this issue (sort of) if you don’t mind….
Is there any regulation or guidance on student e-mail accounts and using the .edu when they are no longer students but
have graduated and become alumni? How long do you continue to provide e-mail access for graduating students?
Your advice is greatly appreciated!!
Thanks,
Mary Spaller
Network & Security Analyst
P: 423.461.8985
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From: The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of Bob Bayn
Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2014 5:02 PM
To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
Subject: Re: [SECURITY] Student/Staff Email
Our contract employees have an enterprise email account on our Exchange server for the duration of their employment.
Anyone with a USU ID number can get a branded-gmail account (we call ours AggieMail) for as long as google will have
them. That applies to students, alumni, employees, former employees and any other gremlins that manage to get an ID
number.
We are just now going through growing pains to get rid of Exchange accounts for employees who retired in the
not-too-recent past. And angst from our emeriti is the result.
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<UrlBlockedError.aspx>
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From: The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv [SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] on behalf of Knights, John
[knightsj () WIT EDU]
Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2014 2:25 PM
To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU<mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU>
Subject: [SECURITY] Student/Staff Email
Good Afternoon All-
I’ve seen many of you provide feedback on how you handle graduated student email accounts (May 2014 thread), but we
have a potentially unique twist to this.
We have hired some of our graduates in the past, as I’m sure others have. Our staff, faculty, and students will soon
all be using the same email system (Office365). I believe that we may be coming to a consensus that we will move away
from “eternal" emails for students and retirees, instead we would implement eternal email forwarding to their own,
personal email account instead for development and future engagement opportunities.
The one unique case is when a student that becomes a staff member, leaves but is still a student (usually finishing
their graduate degree). Since all roles used the same identity and email account, we are looking for suggestions and/or
comments on what would be best for how to handle the email account for this former staff, current student. We have
considered setting up a different account to generate a new student email, but there are concerns with this.
Thanks,
John
John Knights
Information Security Officer
Wentworth Institute of Technology
Division of Technology Services
Current thread:
- Re: Student/Staff Email Spaller, Mary E. (Jan 08)
- Re: Student/Staff Email Bob Bayn (Jan 08)
- Re: Student/Staff Email Miller, Richard H (Jan 12)
- Re: Student/Staff Email Theresa Semmens (Jan 16)
- Re: Student/Staff Email Theresa Rowe (Jan 13)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Student/Staff Email Andregg, Bryan Courtney (Jan 08)
- Re: Student/Staff Email Miguel Angel Gonzalez de la Torre (Jan 08)

