UGA commencement is here,congratulations to all of the graduates on your accomplishments at the University of Georgia!

Just a note that if you’re a Spring or Summer 2023 grad, you have received a notice to your UGAMail letting you know that you get to keep your MyID and UGAMail for approximately a year after you leave UGA. After that year, EITS will disable your MyID and UGAMail.

Once your MyID and UGAMail are disabled, you will no longer have access to anything connected to them. That’s not just UGA resources, like wifi or vLab, but also your UGAMail contacts and anything you signed up for or applied to using your UGAMail address.

In other words — it’s not the best idea to put your UGAMail address on applications for jobs, bank accounts, mortgage applications, etc. (yes, we’ve seen that happen, and it’s not pretty)

Why do we disable accounts? Security. We have to do our best to prevent unauthorized access to the UGA network and other resources.

Over the next year, we recommend you: 1. Establish a third-party email address. Make it sound professional, because you’re in the real world now. 2. Migrate any email and contacts from your UGAMail you want to keep. Here are the instructions: https://uga.teamdynamix.com/TDClient/3190/eitsclientportal/KB/ArticleDet?ID=154218

If you stay at UGA to complete another degree or you’re employed here within the next year, you UGAMail and MyID will not be disabled.

More information on the process can be found here: https://eits.uga.edu/access_and_security/myid/myid_account_removal/

A note to Summer 2022 grads: Expect your UGA MyID’s and UGAMail accounts to be disabled next summer. You’ll get a couple more warning notices before this happens. Stay tuned.