2003-03-24

 
My university, GWU, has rescinded in its promise of a permanent email address and fileserver account. Here is a letter of complaint I wrote to the IT department.

Hello,

I am outraged that, as a GWU Student, I was told numerous times by the University that students with ACAD and email accounts would be able to keep them indefinitely (FOR LIFE!) as long as they were maintained. Now they are being revoked for alumni. I cannot believe that the university is going back on its word, its PROMISE. How disrespectful, to do this to students that have paid THOUSANDS of dollars to be a part of GWU, when we could have spent much less on larger state schools that seem to have more resources. You can be guaranteed that I will never support GW in the future, monetarily or reputation-wise, should this be carried out. If there was any chance of this revoke occurring, the promise for indefinite email addresses should never have been made. My research and work depends upon my website and my gwu email address and my reputation as a GW alumni.

The fact that I keep my thesis that I wrote for my degree at GW on my website is pain enough. There is no other place for it to be posted than on a GW webserver. Not only would it be an incovenience to myself, but it would look terrible on the university to have their students' theses hosted on commercial servers. It makes the university look cheap and selfish. GWU is an academic institution, not a business.
posted by MM 9:45 AM