Cedarville University offers ongoing email services for former students! "Email for Life" (EFL) is not just a forwarding service; alumni have an actual Gmail account at Cedarville. Anyone who has earned academic credit from Cedarville University is eligible to have an email account. There is no charge for EFL and other alumni may setup an EFL account using a simple myCU portal task.
Note: The University reserves the right to deny or terminate an individual account for anyone with past-due financial obligations or for other reasons at the University's discretion. It is the University's intent to provide this service for an extended period of time ("for life"), but the University reserves the right to terminate the entire "Email for Life" offering at any time.
Note: The University will exercise caution in sending emails to your "Email for Life" account. Any email sent will be for official University business only. Your EFL address will not be sold or given away to outside individuals or organizations. The EFL account should not be used for sending spam, harassing messages, or messages with unethical or illegal purposes. Messages sent from the account should be honoring to the Lord in content and tone.
Email for Life Quick Facts
You will use your current username as well as your CedarNet password. You may request a change to your username via myCU portal.
- Your email address can be reached at either of the following formats:
- username@cedarville.edu
- username@alumni.cedarville.edu
- The emails you send will be sent from:
You may look up email addresses for alumni who have chosen to release their addresses by using the online alumni directory. Faculty and staff members may be found using Find a Person. You may want to go into the directory and make your own email address visible to others.
You can use the myCU portal to terminate your EFL account. You may re-activate your EFL account by returning to the myCU portal and searching for the "Access Email for Life" task; however, messages and calendar entries in your original account may be lost.
Note: Each EFL account has 15GB of storage capacity. This includes Google Mail, Google Drive and Google Photos.
New to Email For Life?
If you just graduated, or if you were both an alum and employee who has just ended your employment with CU, some changes will be occurring to your account as it moves to an "Email For Life" account:
- Your account will no longer be licensed for Microsoft Office 365. As such, you may be limited in downloading and using the Office Desktop applications, as well as some of the other Office 365 features and applications.
- Your storage in Google Drive will be limited to 15 GB and Microsoft OneDrive will be limited to 1 GB.
- You will no longer have access to any Adobe Creative Cloud products through Cedarville University.
Want to Deactivate your Email For Life?
If you no longer use your "Email for Life" account, and would like it deactivated, you can do so by using the "Email for Life" MyCU task.