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After careful review, Brandeis will discontinue brandeis.edu accounts for alumni use effective January 7, 2025. This change mitigates rising costs and improves email security.

Alumni Relations has informed all alumni of the upcoming change and announced the launch of My Brandeis Gateway. This new online resource allows alumni to update their contact and employment information, search the alumni directory, and submit class notes.

FAQs

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What services are impacted by this change?

Services such as Brandeis' Google Suite (email, calendar, contacts, and drive), as well as the Brandeis instance of Box will no longer be available.

Access to other online systems, including online alumni library resources and alumni career resources such as Handshake, may require updated credentials. You can find a full list of affected systems and services on our support pages for recent graduates.

When will accounts be deactivated?

All “alumni”@brandeis.edu accounts (accounts assigned or claimed by alumni) will be deactivated on January 7, 2025.* Once deactivated, alumni accounts will no longer be accessible, and messages to that account will bounce back to senders as undeliverable.

For graduates beginning in 2024, Brandeis will not offer a new alumni email account. Graduates will retain access to their student email during a seven-month grace period following conferral. Once the grace period has ended, email accounts will be deactivated and messages will bounce back to senders as undeliverable.

*August 2024 degree conferrals will retain access to their Brandeis account until March 2025.

Can I continue to use my Brandeis account for social media and other accounts?

No, you will be unable to continue using your Brandeis account for social media and other accounts as your email account will no longer be accessible, and you will not be able to receive messages to the account or update your email and password. For specific Brandeis related applications please visit our Resources page for recent graduates on how to update your account information to retain access.

Is there an easy way to inform my contacts of the change?

If you are using your @brandeis.edu email address, we recommend you consider replacing this account with a non-Brandeis email address (i.e., Gmail, Yahoo, etc.) and ask that you please begin to take the following steps:

Notify your contacts of your new email address. Take inventory of contacts who use your @brandeis.edu email address and provide them with your updated information so you can continue communicating without interruption.
Before your @brandeis.edu account is disabled, consider adding your email to your signature and enabling an auto-responder so contacts who email you will be notified of your updated contact information.
Update online accounts and subscriptions that use your @brandeis.edu email address. To ensure continuation of your services, we recommend updating online accounts and social media with your non-Brandeis email address over the upcoming months instead of waiting until the end of the year.