Email accounts and storage files for alumni who have not registered for classes in more than two years hit their expiration date today as a part of the university plan to delete about 117,000 alumni email accounts.
Vice Provost for Libraries and IT Services David Gift said the actual deletion will begin in the next few weeks to allow for enough time for the university to prepare and begin deletion.
Alumni email account deletion became an issue earlier this summer when alumni initially were given
less than a month’s time to prepare for the deactivation. The university decided to reconsider, and then continue, with the deletion.
In previous interviews, Gift said the choice to deactivate the accounts stemmed from a variety of factors, including operational costs.
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