Michigan State University has announced that it will stop providing full-service e-mail accounts to alumni who graduated more than two years ago, a cutback that will affect 117,000 people. Some of them are complaining, but officials say it is a necessary cost-cutting measure. David Gift, vice provost for libraries and information-technology services, said that the policy had always been to discontinue full-service accounts two years after a student’s last class, but that the university simply had not enforced it.
http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/michigan-state-to-shut-down-thousands-of-alumni-e-mail-accounts-to-save-money/36969
