- Retired Faculty members with over 15 years of continuous service at Fairfield are allowed to keep their email and library database accounts, if they choose to, and if approved by the Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs. Each spring, the Academic Affairs office sends the Identity and Directory Services (IDS) Admin a list of the upcoming retirees who qualify and will be retiring at the end of August. Occasionally, a qualifying faculty member may retire earlier in the year.
- Once the IDS Admin has the list of qualifying people, each is sent a form, (copy below) to ask if they wish to keep email and/or library access after they retire. Not all choose to keep these accounts after retirement. NOTE: Xythos and all other computer access ends when the BR-Faculty or BR-Adjunct role expires.
- If the person chooses to keep email/library accounts, they are given a role in Identity Management called BR-RetireeAssociate. An end date is NOT added to this role, as it is a lifetime designation. This role will allow them to keep email/library access after all other computer access goes away on their Faculty or Adjunct termination date. The BR-RetireeAssociate role can be given to a a qualifying faculty member even if they still have a BR-Faculty or BR-Adjunct role.
Retiree Associate accounts are monitored annually by the IDS Admin and the BR-RetireeAssociate role is deleted if it has not been used for over a year.
NOTE: there has always been a common misconception that being appointed as Faculty Emeritus is what grants the privilege of keeping Exchange/library accounts after retirement, but that is not correct. It’s the 15 years of service as a faculty member that counts. Orin Grossman and the IDS Admin researched and confirmed this issue in the Faculty journal of record in May of 2009.