In an Oct. 31 email to the Brandeis community, Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs, Carol Fierke Ph.D. ’84, and Executive Vice President for Finance and Administration, Stewart Uretsky, announced that Google account storage limit quotas will increase. 

By Jan. 12, 2026, Google accounts for University faculty and faculty emeritus must fall below 100 GB, below 50 GB for staff accounts and below 25 GB for students. In addition, the new storage quotas for academic affiliates and contingent workers are 25 GB and 5 GB, respectively. This update provides a 25 GB increase for faculty, faculty emeritus and staff accounts, as well as a 15 GB increase for academic affiliates and an increase of 4 GB for contingent workers. 

“These increases provide a generous amount of storage for our community while still maintaining appropriate limits on data storage,” Fierke and Uretsky elaborated. The administrators introduced these initial Google Storage quotas in a June 27 email to the Brandeis community. By taking feedback from community members and their proposed storage quotas into consideration, they decided to make this increase to “support continued compliance while being fiscally responsible.”

In their June email, fierke and Uretsky explained that Brandeis is implementing these storage limits for Google accounts — which includes Gmail, Drive and Photos. They said that despite most accounts being “well below” the original limits proposed, the University made this decision in response to “a significant change in Google’s policy.” Fierke and Uretsky explained that the decision was made after a review of storage usage by the University and with the consultation of the IT Advisory Committee and Academic Technology Advisory Committee.

Any community member with questions about adhering to these updated Google Storage limitations can direct their inquiries to storagepolicy@brandeis.edu.