Wednesday, December 16, 2020

Congratulations on your recent degree completion! You may be leaving the University of Georgia, but there are a few things you can do to prepare and ensure you don’t lose important emails and contacts from your time at UGA.

One year after you complete your degree at UGA, your MyID and UGAMail email address will be disabled, and you will no longer have access to them. EITS periodically performs these account clean-ups to help prevent unauthorized access to the campus network and campus resources.

Once your accounts are disabled in 2022, you will lose access to any campus IT service that requires a MyID including:

• UGAMail
• G Suite
• Office 365 services and products connected to your @uga.edu email address
• vLab
• PAWS-Secure and eduroam

If you graduated in December 2020, you should:

• Establish a non-UGA email account for personal use. You should use a non-UGA email when applying for jobs, graduate or professional school to ensure you do not lose important emails and contacts.
• Migrate your contacts and archived email. Your UGAMail will be disabled one year after you graduate, so you should migrate any emails or contacts you wish to keep to another email account before that time. You can find instructions for migrating contacts and email on our Help Desk site. 

If you choose to stay at UGA to complete another degree program or are employed by UGA, your account will not be disabled.

More information about what happens to your MyID and UGAMail after you graduate is available on the EITS MyID clean-up site. 

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