Account Closures Policies

Students

• Withdrawals: Your account is deactivated as soon as your withdrawl is processed.

Alumni

• Email accounts are maintained for as long as Microsoft continues to provide our mail service.
• For alumni who graduated after 2020, you will continue to log in at skidmore.okta.com and use the same username you had been using while you were attending Skidmore.
• For alumni who graduate between the years of 2008 to 2020, Your login and primary address will change to username@alumni.skidmore.edu. To log into your email you will need to go to outlook.office.com/alumni.skidmore.edu. Your previous address, username@skidmore.edu, will deliver email to the new Inbox

Faculty

• Based on information provided by Human Resources, an automatic process occurs and your Skidmore account is closed 60 days after your contract end date.

Staff

• Based on information provided by Human Resources, an automatic process occurs and access to your Skidmore account is closed based off of an end date given by them.

Retirees

• Email accounts are maintained for as long as Microsoft continues to provide our mail service. All other services will end the day you retire.
• If you are an official retiree of the college, you may keep your email account into retirement. Access to all other systems will end the day you retire.
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Automatic Emptying of Deleted Items

• Students: After an item has been in your Deleted Items folder for 14 days, the Exchange email server will remove them.
• Employees: After an item has been in your Deleted Items folder for 30 days, the Exchange email server will remove them.