Good luck on your next endeavor. We hope you find this information helpful as you depart Boston College.
Students Graduating in May
- Library privileges for borrowing materials end on Graduation Day; thereafter, graduates can sign up for an Alumni Library Card to check out items.
- Email, BC Google account, Agora Portal, BC Zoom, network access, and all other BC services will be available until December 1st of that same year. After December 1st, your BC Google account (including your BC email) will be deleted and all other BC services will no longer be accessible. Note: You will receive an email reminder one month before you lose access.
- Your Eagle ID card will be deactivated the day after commencement.
Uninstall software you acquired through BC
Some of the software you installed on your computer was installed under student licensing agreements, administered by the University. Since you are no longer a student, you should now remove Microsoft Office (Mac & Windows), McAfee ePO & VirusScan Enterprise (Windows only) software from your computer in accordance with the respective manufacturer’s terms and conditions.
Get antivirus protection
If you uninstalled the BC McAfee antivirus software, be sure to get your own antivirus software immediately. Your computer should not be left unprotected from viruses for any length of time.
BC recommends installing the free version of Sophos Home (Mac & Windows).
BC Alumni Community Online
The BC Alumni Community online is where you will find resources to help you connect to your fellow alumni. Register and login to access the alumni directory and other resources.
Questions about the BC Alumni Community?
Contact the Alumni Online Community Support Assistant at alumni.help@bc.edu.
Students Graduating in the Summer or December
- Library privileges for borrowing materials end on Graduation Day; thereafter, graduates can sign up for an Alumni Library Card to check out items.
- Email, BC Google account, Agora Portal, BC Zoom, network access, and all other BC services will be available until April 1st of the following year. After April 1st of the following year, your BC Google account (including your BC email) will be deleted and all other BC services will no longer be accessible. Note: You will receive an email reminder one month before you lose access.
- Your Eagle ID card is deactivated the day after the summer term is over (for summer graduates) or sometime between Christmas and New Year's Day (for December graduates).
Uninstall software you acquired through BC
Some of the software you installed on your computer was installed under student licensing agreements, administered by the University. Since you are no longer a student, you should now remove Microsoft Office (Mac & Windows), McAfee ePO & VirusScan Enterprise (Windows only) software from your computer in accordance with the respective manufacturer’s terms and conditions.
Get antivirus protection
If you uninstalled the BC McAfee antivirus software, be sure to get your own antivirus software immediately. Your computer should not be left unprotected from viruses for any length of time.
BC recommends installing the free version of Sophos Home (Mac & Windows).
BC Alumni Community Online
The BC Alumni Community online is where you will find resources to help you connect to your fellow alumni. Register and login to access the alumni directory and other resources.
Questions about the BC Alumni Community?
Contact the Alumni Online Community Support Assistant at alumni.help@bc.edu.
Student Employees
You can transfer file ownership of any Google Drive content you created in the context of your employment.
Faculty & Staff
- Your status becomes inactive, which occurs on the date established for your termination in the Human Resources Information system.
- Email, BC Google account, Agora Portal, network access, and all other BC services for faculty and staff expire thereafter on a schedule established by ITS (Information Technology Services). The schedule is subject to change but presently is run seven times a year. In most cases an employee/faculty member will receive a notice informing them that their email account is about to expire. Some departments have established a business practice of requesting that access and email accounts expire when the employee/faculty member leaves the University.
- You must uninstall Sophos, Microsoft Office, and Acrobat Pro, if any of these titles were downloaded from Boston College onto your personal computer.
- Do others need access to your Google files? Transfer file ownership of any Google Drive content you created.
- Do others need access to your Windows files? Transfer ownership of any Windows shares. Talk to your TC about how to do this.
- Set an auto reply on your BC Gmail account to let people know your last day and where to direct inquiries to.
- If appropriate, forward your BC Gmail account to the staff member who will be taking over your duties.
- Return BC-owned devices (computers, mobile devices, flash drives, etc.) to your supervisor.
If you are also a BC graduate, you can join the BC Alumni Community online to find resources to help you connect to your fellow alumni. To register and login to access the alumni directory and other resources, see "Stay in Touch with BC" in the Student tabs on this page.
Starting with the class of 2021, we are no longer offering this service due to security and compliance concerns. Additionally, the service will be discontinued for previous alumni as of November 1, 2021.
Why is BC discontinuing Alumni Email Forwarding?
We don’t want you to miss an important email, and we can no longer ensure that with this service. Due to the adoption of increased security practices (e.g. stringent spam filtering, use of DMARC) by major email services, email forwarding is no longer a reliable means of messaging. Forwarded mail is getting flagged as spam, or simply dropped unbeknownst to the intended recipient. Changes like this in industry best practices are driven by threat actors and hackers using email forwarding to their advantage (see this bulletin from the FBI for an example).
Students who graduated in 2020 or earlier will not have access to Zoom. Students in the Class of 2021 will have access to Zoom until fall 2021. For details, see “What Happens” on the Students Graduating tabs above.
Unfortunately, no, there is no way to retrieve data from old accounts. For example, students who graduated in May 2020 lost access to their BC accounts in December 2020. All graduates were notified in advance and were given links to documentation on how to take their data with them before the December date.
In your email client, search for messages sent to your BC address(es). Example: If you are using Gmail, enter “to:Jones@bc.edu” in the search bar. Search operators you can use with Gmail.
You can set up an auto reply in your email client that includes the email address you want used going forward. Example:
Effective 11/1/21, I will no longer be reachable at my @bc.edu email address. Please update your contacts to include my new email address: joe@gmail.com
You can also create a filter in Gmail that sends a message only to those senders who are using your BC alumni forwarding address:
- Enable email templates (how to enable templates by Google).
- Create an email template (how to create a template by Google).
- Create an email filter searching for your @bc alumni address & set the filter to "Send template" with the new template you just created (how to create a filter by Google).
Unfortunately, due to security considerations, BC is unable to host accounts for alumni.
The recipient will get an automated email back saying that the email address could not be found.
Please email infoserv@bc.edu or call (617) 552-3440.