Emails are essential for today’s college student. Messaging professors about homework, recalling your password for Moodle and communicating with classmates are reasons emails are part ofstudent life. However,San Jose City College students aren’t bound to a single email address and may refer to multiple accounts.

The first steps to standardizing a new student email have been initiated on Feb. 15, according to the February 2013 newsletter the Information Technology Support and Service.

Faculty and staff will have new email tools for by fall 2013. The district office will provide this service for SJCC and Evergreen Valley College.

The project will establish a “standard means of electronic communication with all students,” from faculty and administrators. Additional features include “chat, file sharing and collaboration tools,” according to the ITSS Newsletter.

Having a student email has a few benefits outside of school.

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For an easier registration process, students can give their student email address to verify for student discounts.

This is not the first time SJCC implemented a school email.

There is an established student email that is campus-wide rather than district-wide.

Jagmail is an SJCC email address that claims to offer quick email search, instant messaging, Post Office Protocol access and two gigabytes of storage.

Fliers about Jagmail can be found in the general education building on the second floor, but there is no indication of when the service first started. The instructions on the back of the flier do not work. This is due to the discontinuation of updating the student roster for the service.

Google approached SJCC as one of the first community college to offer emails in the form of Jagmail to students, said Eugenio Canoy, Campus Technical Support and Services Supervisor.

EVC’s Associated Student Government did not want the email service from Google, so Jagmail was introduced to SJCC only.

Fliers were made and passed out for the first two years Jagmail was implemented.There was a lack of proper execution as far back as 2004, according to the Oct. 22, 2004 agenda of the College Planning Council.

Google offered 20,000 accounts a year for the school. The service for Jagmail exists, and Computer Technical Support and Service will help set one up.

“Only five percent (of students) have logged onto the (email) system,” Michael Renzi, former director of administrative services, said in an Academic Senate meeting in March 2006.

How well integrated emails are to student life depends on the individual students. Not every student is reliant on their emails.

“I have two emails,” said William Guernsey, 20, mathematics major. “One’s for spam, the other I never check. If a third one was made, I’d never use it.”