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Free E-Mail Connects Graduates For Life

NJIT graduates can obtain free e-mail accounts for life. The university is offering all 35,000 alumni life-long computer e-mail accounts and access to the Internet.

The service demonstrates that being a member of the NJIT family does not end at graduation, said Saul K. Fenster, NJIT president.

"Our alumni are an enormous asset - to the university as well as to the state as a whole," said Fenster. "By extending this free service, we can further erode the traditional divisions between current and graduated students - thereby fostering contacts among faculty, students and graduates that could increase collaboration with industry."

A new computer server recently installed on campus will allow the addition of alumni accounts without the loss of service to students, faculty and staff. The main expenses for the service will be for staff to provide technical support for the network."

Adding alumni to the e-mail network will be a gradual process, beginning with students who graduated after the fall semester. NJIT will then work backwards, sending letters to members of each graduating class and offering former students a password and instructions to access their free accounts.

Click here to register for an alumni email account.

A web site with a chat room for alumni also has been established. Alumni can find the page at http://www.njit.edu/Alumni/alumni_online/chatroom/chatroom.html.

Students at NJIT, one of the most "wired" campuses in the nation, already use e-mail and the Internet to submit assignments, register for classes and access library journals.

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