SCU Alumni Email

For those who graduated between Fall 2023 and Spring 2024, you will continue to have access to your @scu.edu account for 90 days after your graduation. If you’d like an SCU Alumni Email account, please follow the directions below to request an account.

Below are some key points for new alumni to keep in mind. We will send several email reminders about these changes.

• Fill out this form if you'd like to sign-up for an alumni email account with an email address ending in “@alumni.scu.edu.”
• Note: This is a completely brand new account. Nothing from your @scu.edu account will transfer over to the alumni email account. You will only have access to Gmail and Contacts, not the rest of Google Workspace. 
• To export your data from your SCU Google Workspace account, use Google Transfer and Google Takeout. 
• You will lose access to your @scu.edu account and Google Workspace 90 days after your graduation. 
• Shortly after graduation, you will also lose access to Camino, Workday, Duo, eduroam, LinkedIn Learning, Microsoft 365, Qualtrics, SmartPrint, Xfinity on Campus, the Engineering Computing Center,  Zoom, etc

Additional information will be available in each email notification, including details regarding other services for students that will be discontinued (Camino, Duo, eduroam, etc). If you have questions regarding your email transition, please contact scualumniemail@scu.edu.

Due to Google’s announcement ending their “free and unlimited” storage for Higher Education, we are making changes to keep the Alumni Email Program and provide better security for program participants.  

Email communication will be sent to all existing users later this summer.  The following will be included in the email. 

Changes beginning on November 1, 2024:

In order to continue with your existing account, you will need to do the following:

• Be sure to get your Alumni account under the 15GB limit by October 31.
• Find and permanently delete any emails you no longer need, especially those with large attachments.
• To export your data from your SCU Google Workspace account, use Google Transfer and Google Takeout. 
• If you have files that you think should be retained by SCU, transfer ownership before you delete any of your Drive data.

On November 1, accounts that are over the 15GB limit will be suspended.

Stay in touch with your community by signing up for an alumni email! You are eligible for an SCU Alumni Email account if you’ve received your degree. If you’d like to sign-up for an alumni email account, click the link and complete the information in the form.

Please be aware that this is a new account. None of your previous SCU account data will be transferred to your alumni email account. You'll only have access to Gmail and Contacts; the rest of Google Workspace won't be available.

Creating an SCU Alumni Email account typically requires 5-10 business days as we verify alumni status against our records before issuing new accounts. Requests for account creation are handled during regular office hours, Monday to Friday, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Accounts that remain inactive over one year will be automatically disabled. You will need to reactivate the account by sending an email request to scualumniemail@scu.edu. Include your alumni email address, former Student ID if possible, non-SCU email, and Mobile phone number in the request to help expedite verification. 

IMAP and POP are intentionally off for Santa Clara University Alumni Accounts (see Google Announcement about changes which will lead to end-users using OAuth). 

Using Apple Mail (*)(**)(***)(****)

• Open Mail and go to Mail, Accounts. Select Google from the provider dialog box. 

• Select the account you want to add to Mail or select "Use another account" to add the Santa Clara University Alumni account. 

• The login and password are required.

• Once successfully logged in, emails will start loading into the Inbox. 

(*)    We recommend using Gmail in a browser on a Mac and using the Gmail App on a iPhone to access Santa Clara University Alumni email accounts.

(**)   Mac OS must be 12 (Monterey) or higher.

(***)  If you already have your SCU Alumni Account added to Mail, remove it before adding it again. Mow that IMAP/POP are not available, you need to remove, then add your account again. 

(****) If you chose the option to remove the Santa Clara University email copy (a setting in Gmail), you will lose historical emails. 

Alumni email accounts are available only to Santa Clara University alumnus/a who have graduated from a degree granting program. Individuals who have completed a certificate program are not eligible for an alumni email account.

If you are eligible, please follow the instructions above according to your class year.

The process of issuing an email address may take 5-10 business days; we verify alumni status according to our records prior to issuing new accounts. Requests to create an SCU Alumni Email account are processed during regular office hours (Monday to Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.)

Your email address will end in @alumni.scu.edu (e.g. bucky.bronco@alumni.scu.edu). 

If you know your password: 

Start at the Google account page (you may need to sign in again to access your account). Follow the prompts to change your password.

Information from Google: Learn more about changing your password (go to the section called "Change your password"). 

If you forgot your password: 

Start at the Google account recovery page. You will be asked some questions; answer as best you can. 

Information from Google: Learn more about recovering your account (go to the section called "Forgot your password"). 

If you cannot recover your password through these steps, please send an email to scualumniemail@scu.edu. Your identity will be verified, and your password will be reset. 

To find more information about managing your username and/or password, view this page. For any additional questions, please contact the Technology Help Desk at 408-554-5700 for further assistance. 

No, SCU does not sell or share any email address information and neither does our email service provider (Google). There is an extremely robust 3rd party market for gathering, aggregating, and selling personal data. Any social-media post, online purchase, conference attendance, or even a website cookie can result in your email address being harvested and then aggregated, sold, and resold. Here is an article from Fast Company that describes this phenomenon and how you can minimize the sale of your email data.  Generally, users should mark messages as spam, or even block the sender, when they receive unsolicited email.