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Yale undergrads (and perhaps all students) receive "yale.edu" addresses and are not given "aya.yale.edu" addresses until they leave. On graduation, they must advise everyone of their new "aya" address.
Why not give them both when they enter Yale? That way they can use the " yale.edu" address for Yale purposes but could use their "aya" forwarding address for all external correspondence thus starting and cementing the aya address sooner.
A reply to mfoharris:
The aya.yale.edu address is only a forwarding address - you cannot use it to receive and read email. Rather it functions as a "permanent" address, forwarding your email to whichever ISP (Internet Service Provider) you choose (AOL, ATT, Hotmail, Yahoo, etc.).
Many people change their email addresses when they change jobs, become dissatisfied with their ISP, etc. The AYA address stays the same and the alumnus/ae simply redirects their AYA address to the new email address.
Undergraduates need an ISP where they can receive, read, send and store their email. They thus have Yale.edu addresses while a student at Yale. When they graduate, they must give up that address because Yale does not have the capacity to allow all alumni to store their email for life. Alumni must get an ISP to replace Yale.edu.
I am simply suggesting that they be given an AYA address four years earlier to allow them to start using it and not have to advise all their contacts of a new address when they graduate.
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Why distinguish between graduates and undergraduates in email addresses? Why not settle on one email address for students when they enter that they can keep permanently?