The new hotness for student status verification is ID.me. This is, despite some controversy, still the interface to various US Federal agency sites, and other s

The new hotness for student status verification is ID.me. This is, despite some controversy, still the interface to various US Federal agency sites, and other sites as well. ID.me has a pretty rigorous verification system. They will not only verify your student status, they can verify qualified teachers/educators, HCPs, veterans, and recipients of public benefits. So it's sort of one-stop-shopping for a verification broker who will then introduce you to whatever site wants to authenticate you. It was interesting, because I happened to graduate from college in May, much to my own surprise, and ID.me soon notified me that my student status had expired. I don't know if it was on a timer-deadline, or linked to the graduation event, but whichever it was, they were on the ball. LinkedIn uses email addresses to verify employees, for example my own employer set up a thing, but it doesn't accept either of the work email addresses I've been issued, perhaps because we've got "two tiers" of employees and my email looks different from the full-timers'. And you're right about folks keeping our .edu addresses in perpetuity. I worked for an .edu for 4 months, 24 years ago, and I still have access to, and control of, my email address there, in terms of where it forwards. I have no storage or other access, just the ability to point it somewhere.