Monday, December 5, 2022

Graduation is in just a couple of weeks, and soon you will be Alumni of The University of Georgia!  Congratulations on your achievements during your time at UGA.

Approximately a year after you leave UGA, your MyID and your UGAMail email address will be disabled, and you will no longer have access to them.

Once your accounts are disabled, you will lose access to any campus IT service that requires a MyID, including:

• UGAMail
• Office 365 services and products connected to your @uga.edu address
• Athena
• vLab
• PAWS-Secure and eduroam
• Zoom
• LinkedIn Learning
• Any service or application that requires you to log in with your MyID and password

EITS periodically performs these account clean-ups to help prevent unauthorized access to the campus network and campus resources.

No action is required on your part at this time. However, there are a few steps you can take to prepare:

• Establish a non-UGA email account. We recommend you use a non-UGA email when applying for jobs, graduate school or professional school to ensure you do not lose important emails and contacts.

• Migrate your contacts and archived email. If you have contacts or email from your UGAMail account that you wish to keep, you must migrate these to another email account before your UGAMail account is deleted. You can find instructions for migrating contacts and email here: https://confluence.eits.uga.edu/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=90474291.

• Change the primary contact email on any important accounts you may have your uga.edu email tied to.

• You can stay in touch with the UGA Alumni Association by updating your information at alumni.uga.edu/myinfo

You can expect a notice about account deletion a year after graduation.

If you are still completing an in-progress degree program, choose to stay at UGA to complete another degree program or are employed by UGA, your account will not be deleted.

Once you have graduated, you can access the UGA Career Center's job posting board, Handshake, by establishing an alumni account: http://career.uga.edu/alumni/alumni_handshake_registration.

If you have questions about the deactivation of your MyID and UGAMail, please contact the EITS Help Desk during business hours at 706-542-3106, https://hd.support.uga.edu, or helpdesk@uga.edu.