Information for Departing Students
Note: The information on this web page is intended for graduating students only.
Students who are graduating from the Kennedy School have a few items to review regarding their E-Mail, network space, etc. The following topics are discussed on this web page and should be reviewed by graduating students; It's a good idea to print this web page for future reference.
- Deletion of your email messages and "M" drive documents
- How to logon to the HKS intranet after graduation
- How to access the HKS alumni web site
- Your Lifetime Email Forwarding Account
- Your Post Harvard E-Mail Address
- Access to the computer lab after graduation
- Graduating students who are remaining at HKS to work over the summer
- JACK - Access to JACK (Jobs And Careers @ the Kennedy School)
Deletion of your E-mail Messages and M Drive Documents
Your E-Mail messages and all files on the "M" drive will be deleted at the end of June, 2008, However...
Using a computer in the lab, you may save all the files on your M drive to a CD. If you are off campus, you may also access your M drive from the HKS Intranet (login required).
If you use a POP3 email client (Outlook, Netscape, Eudora, etc), then your emails have already been saved to your personal computer. If you use HKS Web Mail, then you can save your email messages by configuring a POP3 email program to check your HKS email account. All messages from your Inbox will be downloaded to your personal computer.
Please plan ahead and save important files before you leave in the end of June. Once files are deleted, there is no way to recover them. No extensions beyond the June deadline can be made.
Accessing the HKS Intranet after Graduation
1. Your HKS intranet account will remain active after you graduate. However... Starting the end of June, you will access the HKS Intranet via http://www.hks.harvard.edu/about/alumni/online-community
The new "post-harvard" username and password that you create will serve as the username and password for the intranet too. You will receive information shortly after regarding the creation of a post.harvard.edu alumni account.
2. Access to the intranet will be temporarily unavailable at the end of June while your student account is converted to an alumni account.
3. For technical help after the June Deadline go to http://www.post.harvard.edu or send questions to haa_alumnihelp@harvard.edu
Accessing The HKS Alumni Web Site
Join the HKS Alumni Online Community
Your affiliation with HKS doesn't end upon graduation. You will be joining a community of more than 20,000+ HKS alumni. This alumni network is a valuable tool to which you have access for your lifetime. Use it for personal and professional purposes and stay connected to your fellow alumni as well as the School.
In a few weeks, you will receive an email from the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) which will include a Post.Harvard registration link and an HAA ID number (required for registration). Once you have registered for Post.Harvard, you can login to the HKS Alumni Online Community.
For more information, please visit: http://www.hks.harvard.edu/about/alumni/online-community/instructions.
Your Lifetime Email Forwarding Account
1. Your email address will remain the same, e.g. jane_smith@ksg08.harvard.edu, starting the end of June, 2008. However...
Your email will no longer be saved on the HKS email servers. Instead, it will be forwarded to another Internet email account that you specify (Yahoo!, HotMail, etc.)
Note: you will not be able to create or send messages from the HKS intranet.
2. To enable lifetime email forwarding while you are still a student, you must do the following:
- Login to the HKS intranet.
- At the top on the navigation bar, select Options, select Mail, then select Change Forwarding Address.
- In the text box titled "New Forwarding Address", type in the complete address of your new Internet email account. The click the Submit Request button.
Be sure that you enter a forwarding address by the end of June, 2008 and that the email account your specify is working and accepting messages before you enable email forwarding!
You may change your forwarding address via the HKS Intranet at anytime, but after the June deadline, you must go to alumni website. Remember, your lifetime address will only work if you keep the forwarding address up to date.
Your Post Harvard Email Address
You can continue to use your HKS lifetime email address, however...
You will get a new post-harvard email address from www.post.harvard.edu
Pick one address to be your main Harvard E-mail address and forward the mail from both addresses to an outside account. Both addresses will work as forwarding addresses. No E-mail will be saved on Harvard servers, only forwarded to an address of your choice.
Access to the Computer Lab After Graduation
1. Until the end of June, you will be able to use school computers. However...
After the deadline, you will no longer be able to login to a HKS computer.
2. Be sure to check the Student Computer Lab page for Summer hours
Graduates Remaining at HKS to Work During the Summer
Your student accounts will be deleted as discussed above. However...
The person you are working for must request a new staff account for you after the end of June, 2008. Student accounts cannot be converted to staff accounts.
Jack - Jobs And Careers & the Kennedy School
You will continue to have access to this career management system,
However...
You will logon to JACK with your POST.Harvard username and password instead of your HUID and PIN.
