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College ‘Email for Life’ at Risk for Many

Inside Higher Education: “…Many universities have offered an “email for life” option over the last decade, comforting students by providing a directory and archive of materials stored on their email over the years. But institutions are now grappling with how to keep that perk for students because of a Google change to its approach to digital storage. Google began offering free storage to universities in the mid-2000s, through its G Suite for Education program. With that resource, institutions allowed students to keep their school email addresses postgraduation, along with storage through Google Drive…The limit of 100 terabytes for each university may sound like a lot of storage, but given the thousands—and for some universities, tens of thousands—of alumni with email addresses and digital files, it can be tough for an institution to keep lifetime email going…”

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