To all UofM Seniors and Freshman

We are seeking freshman and senior students at the University of Memphis to participate in a national survey which will help us understand how to provide you with better information technology services. Your participation in the study is voluntary, and your responses will be completely confidential. The survey only takes 10-15 minutes to complete and will be open through April 7th, 2008.

By taking the survey you will also be eligible to win either $50 or $100 gift certificates to Amazon.com!

Please go to the following URL to complete the survey: http://survey.educause.edu/ecar/student/

Thank you very much for your participation!

Sincerely,

Dr. Douglas Hurley
VP of Information Services
The University of Memphis

If you have specific questions about the study or survey, please feel free to contact the principal investigators directly:

Judy Caruso
ECAR Fellow
Director, Policy and Planning
CIO’s Office
University of Wisconsin–Madison
judy.caruso@cio.wisc.edu

Gail Salaway
ECAR Fellow
EDUCAUSE
gsalaway@educause.edu

Improved Email Service for Students

The University of Memphis is moving student email to Microsoft Exchange.   Exchange provides the following advantages:

·         Increased Storage Quotas to 100MB

·         Group calendars and address books

·         Stronger SPAM and virus filters

You may begin to experience these advantages now by manually converting your email to the new server.  Any email accounts not converted by February 4, 2008, will be automatically converted.  Please be aware of a few points regarding this conversion:

·         The new address to access your Exchange account via web is https://ummail.memphis.edu instead of http://postoffice.memphis.edu. 

·         After your account is converted, email sent to you goes to your Exchange account. 

·         You must move your Email messages from Postoffice if you would like to keep them.

·         If you have chosen to forward your U of M mail to an outside mail service (i.e. gmail, hotmail, yahoo, etc.), verify that the forward is still active by sending email to your memphis.edu address.

·         The Postoffice server will no longer be available after March 1, 2008.