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This page provides retirees with detailed directions for acquiring, or re-establishing services available from the campus and from our Association. It is not required that you be an Emeritus Association member to qualify for these privileges.

It Is Important that You Send Us Your Email Address
by Steve Gregorich

Why? #1. A website like this one does not work well unless we have the email addresses of those who read it. How can you know when there is something new on the website? How will you know where to look? You don't want to search the whole site if there is just one new article that interests you. Our email is designed to help with all that.

Why? #2. You will be sent just a few email per year, only when the Board has important information for you. Each email lists the titles of new articles and events with a brief description. If you find one that interests you, click on it and go directly to the detailed article on the website. That is how the email and website work together -- you need both.

Why #3. The most important reason for sending your email address to us is that we cannot involve you in effective efforts to safeguard your benefits without it. Recently, for instance, a retiree informed us of an incident involving Tri Care for Life medical coverage, PERS, and MediCare. Our local Emeritus Association was able to canvas 500 retirees immediately via email to determine the accuracy and extent of the problem and devise effective ways to address it. The Emeritus Association Board, and the state-wide CSU-ERFA Board, are proud of the role they were able to play in the resolution of the problem and it could not have been accomplished without our ability to contact many members quickly and efficiently. It sounds like a big number, 500, but it should have been 5000. There is strength and security in numbers and organization, and it all begins with your email address.

Security. We never share your email address with anyone. You can remove your email address from the list anytime. Group email is always sent as a "blind copy" (BCC) so that no one sees your email address. Just send an email to the following address, give your full name, state whether you served as faculty or staff, and identify the department where you worked on campus.

jansteve1@directcon.net

Lost Your SacLink Account? You Can Reactivate It.
by Steve Gregorich

A SacLink email account is not one of the privileges of emerity faculty and staff covered under CSUS policy. CLICK HERE TO REVIEW CSUS POLICY ON EMERITUS PRIVILEGES. However, it has been the practice on our campus to retain a SacLink account for emeritus faculty. Like most of us, your account may have been deactivated because you stopped using your CSUS email address when you retired. After all, back then SPAM was terrible on campus email. Now many things about campus email have been improved and there are good reasons for reactivating your SacLink account. SacLink provides access to many University services that can be useful to retired faculty:

1. A SacLink e-mail account
2. Access to CSUS lab workstations
3. Access to the CSUS modem pool for Internet access (free internet service)
4. Access to the campus VPN (Virtual Private Network)
5. A personal Web page (show the grandkids you are way cool)
6. An entry in the CSUS Public Directory (if you choose)
7. Access to other campus services and community events
8. Possible help when applying for a CSUS One Card (See the next article.)

If you have lost your SacLink account, you may be able to get it reactivated. Call the University Help Desk at (916) 278-7337 or send an e-mail to helpdesk@csus.edu.

For many years all students, staff and faculty on campus have been issued a Sacramento State One Card. (See picture on the left.) The One Card is a credit card that you can use on campus and at many of the community businesses. It is also the accepted campus identification card.

Some of you were not on campus when these became available, so you have never had one. Others, like me, had their One Card taken from them when they retired -- that was a mistake which can be corrected. Emeritus faculty can get a new CSUS One Card. I just recently got mine. It is very easy to do.

But why would you want one? Well, for one thing, you can get discounts at some businesses in the community by using the One Card and it is also the accepted campus identification card that comes in handy at sports/theatre events and when buying things at the bookstore, getting a free copy of the campus phone directory or any other situations on campus in which your identity requires verification. The One Card also allows you to park in Parking Structure One shown in the map on the right.

Here is how you get one. The red arrow in the map on the right points directly to a small building connected to Brighton Hall. Brighton Hall used to be the English Building. Brighton Hall is directly across the court yard from the library. Enter the door on the right of the small structure, tell the staff you are an Emeritus faculty and ask for a One Card. You should bring a copy of your separation letter with you to verify that you are a retiree of CSUS. They will take your photo and issue you a card in a matter of minutes.

Campus Server May Be Rejecting Your Email
by Steve Gregorich

It has come to my attention that some email sent from off-campus servers may be rejected by the spam filter on campus. If you still have a SacLink account at the campus, and send your email through that account, there should be no problem. However, if you send your email through a service that is not SacLink, it may be rejected as "SPAM." Unfortunately, if your email is rejected there is no automatic notice to tell you that is what happened -- you simply never get a reply.

If you are attempting to send email to campus offices and receiving no reply, it would be extremely helpful to all of us if you would send me an email to let me know so that we can determine the extent of the problem -- just use the email address at the bottom of any page.

How to fix it. Meanwhile, there are several things you can do to assure that your messages get to the campus persons you intend to reach:

1. Send your email to the campus, or to persons with a "csus.edu" address, using your SacLink account.
2. If you don't have a SacLink account, you can get one by following the directions given three artricles above this one.
3. If you don't want a SacLink account, you can phone the parties you want to contact by getting a free copy of the Campus Phone Directory as explained in the article immediately above this one. When you phone the party, ask them to put your email address on their "contacts" list so that the campus server will not reject it automatically in the future.

I Sent You My Email Address. How Come I Don't Get Email from You?

If you sent me your email address, but you are not getting mail from us, then one of these things occurred:

1. Sometimes hand-written email addresses are very hard to make out. For instance, an "l" an "i" and the number "1" are often very hard to distinguish in hand writing. When I am unsure of an address, I will try sending it several different ways. If, after about 3 tries I can't get an email to you, I have to give up.

2. I may have copied your email address wrong.

3. You may have changed your email address.

4. You may have sent me your SacLink email address instead of the address that you use most often.

How to Fix It. Please send me an email again. If you have a SacLink email address and an email address with another service, please send the email address you have with the other service since that is the one you check most often. You can also send BOTH email addresses and I will list you twice, once under each email address. My email address is at the bottom of any page.