Effective immediately: All Retiring Fac/Staff & Professors/Presidents Emeritus Retain Email Accounts
Effective immediately, this is a change in the perk for retiring faculty/staff and a continuation of the policy for Professors/Presidents Emeritus. These populations now retain their existing e-mail accounts (ACS, Google, Exchange) for life. Retirees should no longer be transitioned to Google unless they expressly request that option. Forwarding their login@bu.edu mail to an external email address is still an option they may choose.
When Office 365 becomes available, this policy will be reviewed for retirees with accounts on ACS.
If you have any questions, please see Linda.
This is the new text on the Retiree Perk page at HR:
“Keep your BU email account and BU login: All Professors Emeritus and retiring faculty and staff are able to retain their existing BU email accounts hosted on ACS*, Google and/or Microsoft Exchange. No action is required. If you no longer wish to retain your BU email account but do wish to keep your login@bu.edu email address, you can set up forwarding of your incoming BU email to an external email account. If you have any questions or would like assistance, please contact or visit the IT Help Center.
*Please note that the ACS mail server will be decommissioned in late 2012. At that time, any retiree accounts on ACS will be included in the transition to an alternate mail server.”