Student e-mails switching to Gmail

Grand Valley State University is switching all student e-mail to Google Mail. This decision was made to provide a more robust email application along with collaboration tools for student use. Gmail became available for student use on July 13.

Gmail is free to all students and will be required for all students. The Gmail account will be the official method of communication to students while they are enrolled at Grand Valley. The university has contracted with Google to provide Gmail along with Google Apps for Education and Calendar. The contract provides for privacy for GVSU Gmail student accounts and an assurance of no data mining of Grand Valley information.

The domain for student e-mail accounts will now be @mail.gvsu.edu. For more information about the transition, visit www.gvsu.edu/it/gmail .