University of Nevada Cuts E-Mail System
Knowing that Gmail, AOL, Yahoo, Hotmail, and so many other websites offer free E-mail accounts, the University of Nevada has cut its free E-mail service for students. The service, which lasted some 20 years, gave students E-mail addresses through the school's database.
Infrequency of use and the need to cut costs made the decision to close the service rather easy for the school, the Nevada Sagebrush reports. "Best we can tell, only about 20 percent of existing [university] E-mail accounts assigned are used," Steven Zink, the university's vice president of information and technology, tells the Sagebrush.
An article by the Chronicle of Higher Education cited by the Sagebrush reported in 2008 that more than 1,000 schools have changed or converted their school-based E-mail systems.
"For me, I don't mind either way," one student tells the Sagebrush. "If it saves money, keeps classes and teachers from being cut, and prevents tuition from rising, then by all means cut the student E-mails."
The system will be axed by the fall semester of the 2010 school year.
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Cost savings vs.actual delivery of messages
While our university still has a university account, it is also offering students the option to have a Gmail or Hotmail account as its official university e-mail account. The trouble is that often universities are put on these third-party services "black lists" because of spam issues. Universities get marked as spammers often because their own students tell Gmail or other e-mail services that the notices they get about campus events or parking lot closings are spam. What this has meant for our university is that important official communications like tutition bills, housing renewals, or direct e-mails from professors are now also blocked by these third-party e-mail services. I recommend that before a university tries this, to factor in the costs of e-mail messages NOT getting through.
Drop e-mail
The article is unclear about what students will use now. At Temple University in Philadelphia, like many others, we partnered with Google to provide e-mail for students, faculty, and alumni. You can't simply abandon a unifying e-mail standard ... you'd have an academic wild-West all over again .... oh, that's right, it is Nevada :)
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