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PUC Email: To Use or Not to Use

When you become a student at Pacific Union College, a PUC email address is automatically created for you. This is your primary source of campus news, information about events, and the critical link between you and your advisor and teachers. You, like most students, may already have an email address long before you arrive at PUC (Hotmail, Yahoo, AOL, etc.). You are now responsible to read your PUC email as well. If you don't, you will be missing important information. Some common misperceptions about PUC email include:

1. Is my PUC email address turned off in the summer, or if I happen to leave PUC for a quarter? This is not true. Once your address is created, it is not turned off. After you graduate, if you don’t access your PUC e-mail for six months your mailbox will be deleted.
2. A system administrator will read my email, it is not private–again, this is not true. While PUC does have the ability to read your email (any private institution does) this would ONLY occur if there was probable cause of illegal activities
3. All my friends know my current address, and I don't want to check TWO addresses. This may be true, but you can forward your PUC email to your current address so that you can receive both. See instructions below.

What Is My PUC Email Address?

If you are a current student, or have been accepted at PUC your email address is your first initial, middle initial and last name plus "puc.edu". (Additional letters of your name will be added if that username is already taken.) For example the student John Fitzgerald Kennedy would be jfkennedy@puc.edu. If you are a returning student, your password is the same as what it was previously. If you are a new student, your original password, that you may change, is as follows:

• LAST 4 DIGITS of your SSN + First initial + Last initial + 4 digit birth year
• Example. Bill Doe has a current email address bdoe@puc.edu. He was born in 1970. His SSN is 111-22-3333. His full legal first name that he put on his application and is now stored in PUC's system is "William". His default password will be 3333wd1970

To use your email address, go to www.puc.edu, and at the top of the webpage, click on "webmail". You can also use an email client program such as Microsoft Outlook, Eudora, or other software to check your mail. If you need assistance with your address or password, please stop by the ITSS office, you will need to bring your PUC ID.