Eligible Alumni include: Former students are eligible to opt-in during your grace period If you are an alum and also a recently separated employee, you can opt-in during your employee grace period Steps to Opt-in:
No, but in order to keep your account active, Alumni will need to log in to their Google account in a web browser using their CalNet credentials every 6 months to meet the activity requirement. Using the Gmail app and third party email clients also count as activity, but that activity can only be tracked for 30 days. Other types of activity like forwarding email to another account or using auto-reply messages do not register as activity.
Alumni will be notified at both their @berkeley.edu email and their listed...
Alumni will need to log in to their Google account in a web browser using their CalNet credentials every 6 months to meet the activity requirement. Using the Gmail app and third party email clients also count as activity, but that activity can only be tracked for 30 days. Other types of activity like forwarding email to another account or using auto-reply messages do not register as activity.
Alumni will be notified at both their @berkeley.edu email and their listed recovery email after 4 months & 5 months of...
Former students are eligible to opt-in during your grace period If you are an alum and also a recently separated employee, you can opt-in during your employee grace period
New Alumni who are still in their grace period as a former student
New alumni have until the the end of their grace period to opt-in to their @berkeley.edu Google Alumni accounts. Failure to opt-in as a new alumni prior to the end of your grace period will result in your account being disabled and scheduled for deletion.
Existing Employees who also happen to be alumni
While an employee, you can not opt-in to email services as an...
Enter the email address provided in the To: field of this message to login to Google. Enter your CalNet ID and Passphrase when presented with the CalNet Authentication Service page. The part before the @ symbol in the To: field of this message is your CalNet ID You can Reset Passphrase(link is external) if you can no longer remember it. Check the Email(link is external)...
The @berkeley.edu Google accounts for eligible alumni who do not reduce their Google account storage to below 5 GB before the end of their grace period will lose the following capabilities:
Gmail: You will be unable to send or receive messages outside of UC Berkeley. Messages sent to you from outside of UC Berkeley are returned to the sender.
Google Drive: You will be unable to sync or upload new files. You will be unable to create new files in Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, Drawings, Forms, and Jamboard. Until you reduce...
Berkeley currently allows alumni to opt-in to the active @berkeley.edu Google account they had as a former student, employee, or participant in a prior Alumni Email Service. These accounts allow 5 GB of total storage (including all Gmail, Drive & Photos). More information about the limitations to the @berkeley.edu Google accounts provided to alumni can be found on the Alumni Email Service page.
Current students must wait until they complete their studies or graduate before renewing their @berkeley.edu Google account as an alum. They will be notified as their account enters its grace period.
All new graduates must complete the following steps before the end of their grace period to avoid any disruptions:
