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Personal Email Address

In general, you will only be contacted at your personal email address under the following circumstances:

• You're a prospective or admitted student who hasn't been assigned a CU Boulder email account yet.
• You're involved with extracurricular groups and you provided a personal email address to them.
• You're a CU graduate and you provided a personal email address to the Alumni Association.

CU Boulder Email Address

After you've confirmed your intent to enroll, you'll receive an email from New Student & Family Programs telling you how to access your CU Boulder email account. You are expected to read communications sent to that account in a timely manner, as email is the official means of university communication.

In an effort to protect student privacy, CU directories may only contain a student's name, email address, class and major field of study.

Of the items designated by CU Boulder as directory information, only a limited amount of this information is routinely disclosed by CU Boulder university officials.

The university retains the discretion to refuse disclosure of directory information if it believes such disclosure would be an infringement on student privacy rights.

CU Boulder Email Address

Display Name

To change the name displayed in the "from" line of email messages, see OIT's Choose a Display Name page.

Alias

To request an update to your email alias (the part of your email address before @), contact OIT at help@colorado.edu or 303-735-HELP.

Personal Email Addresses

1. Log in to Buff Portal.
2. Select your profile at the top right.
3. Select "Account Settings," then "Profile and Privacy."
4. In the pop-up menu, select "Email Addresses," then "Pre CU Enrollment."
5. You may add a pre-CU email address, or edit or delete existing ones.