Get Geared for @u.northwestern.edu
May 2007
By now you’ve heard about Northwestern’s partnership with Google featuring the @u.northwestern.edu accounts. These accounts are similar to Google's freely available Gmail product, but they have been customized for Northwestern students. Undergraduate and certain School of Continuing Studies’ certificate- and degree-seeking students can look forward to using several of the improved services in early June:
- E-mail: Gmail with over 2 gigabytes of storage
- Calendar: Standard Google calendar system
- Google Talk: Instant messaging and Google to Google voice service
- Google Docs: Convenient online document sharing
- Security: Student data will be protected and not used for marketing purposes
- Personalization: When activating the service, students will be assigned an account name with the option to create additional nicknames if desired
What to Expect
You can look forward to an opt-in invitation right before summer break. If you plan to opt-in, you can begin preparing by saving any old information from your existing mail server account to an outside source, such as your hard drive or another e-mail account.
Once you opt-in, you will have three weeks to “clean out” what want to keep from your merle, lulu, hecky, or casbah account before your account on the mail server will be deleted. Students who opt-in will be able to keep the account post-graduation.
More information regarding the upcoming launch will be available in the coming weeks.
