Alumni Email "Email Address for Life" Option

Attention graduating students:

Want to keep your @mines.edu email address after graduation? Now you can!

Information & Technology Solutions (ITS) is pleased to announce this service in response to student demand for a “Mines email address for life.”

All Mines students who graduate with a degree will receive Alumni e-mail by default.  No forms or requests are needed.

Here’s what you’ll need to do to keep your Mines e-mail account as an Alumni. 

During, or soon after, the checkout process for graduation.

1. Log into your my.mines.edu account (https://my.mines.edu) with your Mines credentials.
   1. click Banner General Self-Service then go to Personal Information.
   2. Update the Personal Email Address and make sure a non-Mines e-mail address has been added via the Edit or Add New menu (if it isn’t already in place). This will be used in the event you forget your Mines Alumni Email password.
   3. Make sure you have a mobile phone number in your Banner profile in case we need to contact you outside of e-mail for any identity verification. 
2. When your banner record is inactivated due to graduation the license will automatically be switched to an Alumni license.
   1. Your record will be inactivated roughly a month after graduation. 
   2. Once your record has been inactivated, most access will be terminated so be sure to backup your data soon after graduation. When backing up your data be sure to backup anything in Canvas, OneDrive, Google Drive/Docs, your Z drive and any other data that may exist.  Once the account is inactivated you will no longer have access to this data and it will be removed from our systems.
3. Once your exchange license has been converted to an Alumni license this mailbox will become your "Email Address for Life" mailbox. 
   1. All other Microsoft 365 services and licenses will be removed from your account.
   2. Most other services such as Canvas, Google Drive/Docs, and other logins will be disabled.
   3. You will be required to login to my.mines.edu within ninety days after your Alumni license is established then at least once per year to keep the account active.  Our recommendation is to login at least once each month to the my.mines.edu portal.