E-mail PolicyE-mail is a valid mechanism for official communication with students at Northwestern University. The University has the right to send official communications to students by e-mail. The University has the right to expect that students will receive e-mail and will read e-mail in a timely fashion. At the University all students will be assigned an official University e-mail address. All official University communications will be sent to this official University e-mail address. This address will be maintained in the official University e-mail directory for each student. The University will provide a convenient mechanism so that a student may have e-mail forwarded from the official University e-mail address to another e-mail address of the student's choice. Students who choose to have e-mail forwarded to another e-mail address do so at their own risk. The University is not responsible for e-mail forwarded to any other e-mail address. A student's failure to receive or read in a timely manner official University communications sent to the student's official e-mail address does not absolve the student from knowing and complying with the content of the official communication. Faculty may assume that a student's official University e-mail is a valid mechanism for communicating with a student, and faculty may use e-mail for communicating with students registered in their classes. This policy will ensure that all students will be able to comply with course requirements communicated to them by e-mail from their course instructors. | 
