University email addresses for the Class of 2004 will not be closed until Dec. 1 instead of the former mid-October deadline. This extension will give the new alumni more time to save their messages that would otherwise be deleted.
Steven Sather, director of OIT's support services, said in an email that for the past several years the University has routinely set the expiration date for accounts to be in mid-October.
This was to give recently graduated students time to get settled and retrieve any valuable information from their Princeton accounts and network drives.
Sather also said that over the past several years, graduating students' on-line intellectual property has become significantly more valuable to them and many wish to keep the information on their email accounts.
The delay will give more time to students as well as to OIT, to help smooth the transition.
Rishi Jaitly '04, member of the University Board of Trustees and a leading advocate of the extension, is very happy OIT has taken a proactive approach.
"I am thrilled that OIT has addressed what I believe is a critical step to take the lead in email services," he said.
As a student, Jaitly valued emails because they "amassed a record of his life."
He compared deleting email to destroying handwritten letters from the generations before electronic communication was possible.
"For a university that emphasizes a lifetime connection, it just didn't make sense," he said, "How do we expect to be able to examine the record of our lives a century from now when it's all electronic?"
Previously, graduating classes received an email from OIT regarding their accounts in the spring.
They were unable to make decisions about saving their files until it was too late, Jaitly said.
He approached Betty Leydon, vice president for information technology, and asked if there was any way OIT could help seniors with the transition. OIT said they would look into new options for University graduates.
Since then OIT has been working to make the move easier. For future graduating classes, they are looking into more services for saving students' intellectual property, Jaitly said.
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