How can we ensure that students use their UAF email?

May 28, 2019

University Relations

I'm in a department that often sends automated emails to students, emails containing information that is confidential by law.

I have heard from colleagues at other UA campuses (so yes, this is anecdotal) that many students make it through a degree program without ever having checked their official UA email account, or even knowing that they had a UA email address. So those emails we've sent, all those official records and business -- poof, off into oblivion.

What practices does UAF have in place to ensure that all students either check their UA email or at least set it to forward messages to a preferred address?