E-Mail

Summary

KU staff, faculty, students, alumni, certain contractors and sponsored guests receive email accounts provided by KU IT to be used for conducting official university business.

Features

Enjoy email protection services to prevent spam and phishing
Share your calendar with friends and colleagues
Use the global address list (GAL) to help find your recipients
Retain your student email for life after you graduate
Use distribution lists to organize your team email environment

Office 365 Outlook

Office 365 Outlook offers comprehensive email and calendaring services to faculty and staff. Collaboration tools are integrated with email services on Office 365 Outlook so you can arrange meetings with your colleagues more efficiently, view calendars of those who have granted you permission, schedule rooms and resources, and create to-do lists.

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Google Mail

Google Mail (part of KU Google Apps) is hosted through G Suite for Education. Many, although not all, services provided through commercially-available Google are also available through KU Google Apps.

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Who can use it?

Faculty (Office 365 Outlook or Google Mail)
Staff (Office 365 Outlook)
Students (Google Mail)
Alumni (Google Mail)
Guests

When can I use it?

This service is available all the time.

How much does it cost?

This service is available at no charge to the KU community.

How do I get it?

When you become affiliated with KU through onboarding processes at KU for faculty, staff, and students, an e-mail account is created for you.
When you graduate your student e-mail account is converted to an alumni e-mail account automatically. You can opt-out from alumni e-mail by submitting a Trackit request.
For all other cases and inquiries submit a Trackit request.