Fellow F&M Community Members, 

As you know, the December 1st shut down date is looming in the near future.  I have sent the below letter to President Altmann again requesting this be stopped.  We have not had a single opportunity to have our voice heard by the decisionmakers!

I urge you to join me in emailing President Altmann at baltmann@fandm.edu to demand action now.

Feel free to utilize my language or write your own.

Please act NOW!

-Dan

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President Altmann,

I am writing to you today again disappointed in regards to the closure of the Alumni Email-for-Life program and asking for your immediate action to stop all work on the discontinuation of Email-for-Life.

On August 14th, all alumni received a devastating email from Franklin and Marshall College detailing that "F&M Alumni Email Service" would be discontinued on December 1 of this year.

In 2012, President Daniel Porterfield launched the "Email-for-Life" program.  This program was built to ensure the entire F&M community would remain connected forever with equitable access to F&M branded email.  "Email-for-life" was a promise--A promise of the college to keep its Alumni connected forever.  

1,800 Members of the F&M Community have now signed the petition asking you to keep Email for Life for F&M Alum alive as an opt-in program (The petition can be found here https://chng.it/d9C9BRKbgh  

Since August, from the college, there has been no public explanations offered, there has been no effort to communicate or seek feedback from stakeholders, and most concerningly, there has been no official response to 1,800 of your Alumni begging for help.  

The lack of effective communication and stakeholder communication is in direct contrast with the ethos of the community at Franklin and Marshall.

Attached to this email are 52 pages of signatures representing 15% of F&M's reported 12,000 email account holders that are demanding this program remain active.  Your community cares about this service.  As President of Franklin and Marshall College, you must act.

Please know, that for me personally and many others, this decision to discontinue a service that was promised for life, with little or no communication or alumni feedback, has and will continue to affect my promotion of and desire to financially support Franklin and Marshall College in the future.

This letter is a formal ask that you take action to stop all work to end F&M Email for Life on December 1st until you and the Board of Trustees can meet with the Alumni community and hear our concerns and needs.

Signed Respectfully on behalf of 1,800 F&M Community Members,
Daniel P. Burke, MBA, NRP
F&M'14