CSAIL account expiration

CSAIL accounts for certain classes of users—students, visitors, affiliates, guests, alumni, and certain temporary employees—automatically expire at the end of every fiscal year (specifically, at midnight UTC on July 1, which is 8 PM on June 30 local time here in Cambridge). we automatically renewed graduate students whose appointment with the same supervisor continues past that date for another year. For people whose appointments CSAIL HQ does not know about, or who are ending on or prior to June 30, the user's supervisor and the research group's delegated account administrator (GM) are given the opportunity to manually renew the user's account. Users who have changed supervisors should have their new supervisor or supervisor's assistant notify help@csail.mit.edu to confirm the change. Initial notifications were sent out by email on June 4; users whose accounts are still slated to expire will be informed in late June.

-- GarrettWollman - 18 May 2012