Your guide to your Alumni Email "Email Address for Life"

All graduating Mines students will receive an alumni email by default—you don’t need to fill out any forms to get one. 

If you have already graduated and don’t have an alumni email or an active @mines.edu email address, please complete the form at Service - Alumni Email Access Request. 

Here’s what you’ll need to do to prepare for your alumni Mines email account:

Update your recovery email address and phone number

​In case you are ever locked out of your alumni email account, we’ll need an email or a phone number to verify your identity.

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

• Log into your my.mines.edu account (https://my.mines.edu) with your full @mines.edu email and password.
  • Click on the Trailhead card
  • Search for Banner General Self-Service and select.
  • Verify that the email listed under the email section is up-to-date and is a non-Mines email address.
  • If no phone number is listed under the phone number box, add your mobile phone number in case we need to contact you outside of email for any identity verification. 
     

Important reminders about your new alumni email address

• Upon graduation (with a degree), your student record will be deactivated, which means you’ll lose access to most of Mines' systems and services. However, your @mines.edu email address and contents will be preserved.
  • Email Access: 
    • You will be required to log in to https://my.mines.edu within 90 days after graduation to keep your account active. After that, log in at least once a year (we recommend logging in monthly) to ensure continued access. 
    • Keep the Okta Verify Mobile app on your device–it will still be needed to access your email.
  • Services you'll lose access to:
    • You’ll no longer have access to several systems and applications, including by not limited to: 
      • VPN
      • Library resources such as Prospector and Interlibrary Loan
      • Paid subscriptions offered via the library to the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and other periodicals.  
      • Microsoft services and applications such as Teams, OneDrive, OneNote, and the Microsoft Office applications will also no longer work.  Shared documents from OneDrive will no longer be shared.
      • Canvas
      • Your Z: drive
      • Mines provided Google Drive and Docs.  Shared documents from Google Drive/Docs will no longer be shared.
    • For a complete list of changes and steps to secure your data, please read this article: Graduating? Here's how to secure your data and files before you leave Mines