Retiree Quick Links

Retirement is an exciting time, but there are a few responsibilities and tasks you should complete before that final day. See below your responsibilities and the resources you’re entitled to as a retiree.

Please note that a retiree’s account is deleted after one year of inactivity.

Faculty and Staff Retirees

  1. Transfer all work and project files, sensitive data and Outlook work emails back to your department.
  2. Your Microsoft 365 license changes to a mail-only license and is considered a personal account. As long as you log activity on the account, it remains active.
  3. The Sensitive Data Storage and Transmission page in the ECU Data Governance website is a great guide in determining if there is any information you need to delete or transfer.
  4. Appoint a new admin/owner for any groups or teams you own or request outdated groups or teams be deleted if no longer needed.
  5. Software licenses you have through ECU – Adobe Creative Cloud, for example – expires on your retirement.
  6. ECU web space remains active for scholarly purposes if requested through a service request within six months of retirement along with an active ECU email.

Emeritus Retirees

  1. Transfer all work and project files, sensitive data and Outlook work emails back to your department chair.
  2. Emeritus retirees continue to have access to several benefits such as Outlook email, OneDrive, Piratedrive, Office suite downloads, Teams and other Microsoft 365 apps and services, but these benefits are considered personal accounts, and any sensitive data included in the Outlook mailbox or OneDrive could be unprotected and vulnerable. Therefore, we ask that, once work files are transferred to the department chair or supervisor, all emeritus retirees make one last review and ensure all sensitive files have been transferred or deleted.
  3. The Sensitive Data Storage and Transmission page in the ECU Data Governance website is a great guide in determining if there is any information you need to delete or transfer.