{"id":1086,"date":"2019-11-01T13:12:29","date_gmt":"2019-11-01T13:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/?p=1086"},"modified":"2019-12-16T18:48:33","modified_gmt":"2019-12-16T18:48:33","slug":"goodbye-emeriti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/2019\/11\/01\/goodbye-emeriti\/","title":{"rendered":"GOODBYE EMERITI!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span style=\"font-family: 'Courier New', monospace;font-size: 10pt;line-height: normal\">Sad news reaches subtext from a retired member of staff. The University has decided to delete his email account, along with the email accounts of many other retired and honorary staff, with effect from the beginning of November. A curtly-worded email from ISS informs those about to lose their accounts that, no, you can&#8217;t export your emails, and no, you can&#8217;t have your emails forwarded to another address.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: 'Courier New', monospace;font-size: 10pt;line-height: normal\">subtext has reported on the rather curmudgeonly way Lancaster treats its former staff, particularly when they want to retain access to email or the library, before (see subtext 128). What has prompted the latest cull? Reportedly it&#8217;s partly to do with the way Microsoft prices its services. Since the shift to Office365 and other subscription-based services, it&#8217;s possible for Microsoft to know exactly how many users are making use of its services, and bill the University accordingly.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: 'Courier New', monospace;font-size: 10pt;line-height: normal\">What&#8217;s more &#8211; it&#8217;s no longer possible to &#8216;just have an email account&#8217; at Lancaster these days. Every account carries a cost, because as part of the package you&#8217;ll get &#8216;Apps Anywhere&#8217;, the handy package which enables Lancaster account holders to access hundreds of apps, well, anywhere. So to all the extra Office365 licences required for emeritus staff with email you can add dozens of licences for software they probably never use, but they could if they wanted.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Courier New', monospace;font-size: 10pt;line-height: normal\">One silver lining &#8211; we&#8217;re assured that it is still possible for retired and honorary staff to retain library access, even without an email account, and it is still possible to access online journals (although you will need to come into the library to view them). So we do still value our former staff &#8211; as long as they don&#8217;t incur any licence costs.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sad news reaches subtext from a retired member of staff. The University has decided to delete his email account, along with the email accounts of many other retired and honorary staff, with effect from the beginning of November. A curtly-worded &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/2019\/11\/01\/goodbye-emeriti\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":568,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[532,30,528,512],"class_list":["post-1086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-emeriti","tag-iss","tag-issue-190","tag-staff-alumni"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99sHo-hw","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1116,"url":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/2019\/12\/13\/are-you-still-here\/","url_meta":{"origin":1086,"position":0},"title":"ARE YOU STILL HERE?","author":"Johnny Unger","date":"December 13 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Our last issue recounted the University's decision to remove the email accounts of hundreds of retired staff on a cost-benefit analysis that determined that they were no longer worth the expense. 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