{"id":1197,"date":"2020-02-19T12:44:50","date_gmt":"2020-02-19T12:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/?p=1197"},"modified":"2020-02-19T12:54:59","modified_gmt":"2020-02-19T12:54:59","slug":"go-away-oldies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/2020\/02\/19\/go-away-oldies\/","title":{"rendered":"GO AWAY, OLDIES"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span style=\"font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;font-size: 10pt\">subtext&#8217;s recent reports on the removal of IT and email access from hundreds of former staff members (see subtexts 190 and 191) continue to provoke the ire of readers (see letters, below). One subtext correspondent, a life member of the university, recalls their correspondence with the Director of ISS last summer. The Director clarified that formal membership rights, as determined by the Charter and Statutes, do not include any right to access IT services, even though the University has offered this to continuing members in the past. When the Council discussed this issue in 2015 (see subtext 128), it noted that IT provision for continuing members would be reviewed over time; UMAG duly reviewed this provision in August 2019 and resolved that, henceforth, IT access would be offered to continuing members on the same basis as it is offered to other staff leavers, i.e. it would only be provided when the relevant Head of Department confirmed that the member was continuing to work and contribute to the University. Most continuing members no longer have a formal contract with the University &#8211; hence no IT services will be offered.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;font-size: 10pt\">Some good news: after much effort, our correspondent was finally granted an appeal to the Pro-Chancellor, and it has now been agreed to extend their IT access for at least another year, subject to the condition that they continue to publish. This is still far short of the lifetime access which all continuing members thought they were being given, but it shows that persistence pays off.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>subtext&#8217;s recent reports on the removal of IT and email access from hundreds of former staff members (see subtexts 190 and 191) continue to provoke the ire of readers (see letters, below). One subtext correspondent, a life member of the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/2020\/02\/19\/go-away-oldies\/\">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_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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}},"categories":[4],"tags":[532,30,557],"class_list":["post-1197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-emeriti","tag-iss","tag-issue-192"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99sHo-jj","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1224,"url":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/2020\/03\/27\/letters-28\/","url_meta":{"origin":1197,"position":0},"title":"LETTERS","author":"Johnny Unger","date":"March 27 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Dear subtext, As the most recent Head of Department of the late School of Independent Studies, I am assuming I can consider inviting myself to authorise my own access to the University's IT and email? John Wakeford *** Dear subtext, Reading the letters in subtext 192, I was struck by\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;letters&quot;","block_context":{"text":"letters","link":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/category\/letters\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1179,"url":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/2020\/02\/19\/letters-27\/","url_meta":{"origin":1197,"position":1},"title":"LETTERS","author":"Johnny Unger","date":"February 19 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Dear subtext, Claire Geddes, the former CEO of LUSU, was seconded to work on 'strategic projects' for barely a week before her name appeared on the LU website in another capacity: she is now the University's Head of Governance Services, overseeing Information Governance (e.g. FoI) and the University's own internal\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;letters&quot;","block_context":{"text":"letters","link":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/category\/letters\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1086,"url":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/2019\/11\/01\/goodbye-emeriti\/","url_meta":{"origin":1197,"position":2},"title":"GOODBYE EMERITI!","author":"Johnny Unger","date":"November 1 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"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\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;news&quot;","block_context":{"text":"news","link":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/category\/news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1116,"url":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/2019\/12\/13\/are-you-still-here\/","url_meta":{"origin":1197,"position":3},"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. Since then, we've heard from a further six readers: all retired members of staff; all dedicated supporters of the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;newsflash&quot;","block_context":{"text":"newsflash","link":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/category\/newsflash\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1236,"url":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/2020\/03\/27\/email-signature-news\/","url_meta":{"origin":1197,"position":4},"title":"EMAIL SIGNATURE NEWS","author":"Johnny Unger","date":"March 27 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Following up our story (see subtext 192) on Lancaster's not-in-any-way-pandering-to-stereotype set of email signature templates, featuring Mr Jo Bloggs the officer and his loyal personal assistant, Ms Jane Bloggs, a subtext reader emails to let us know that our article may have 'prompted them to do something'. 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