You must create a password. Go to the Alumni Password Setup website. Log in with your CSU eID and choose a new password for your lifetime e-mail account. For security purposes, we suggest you create a new password for this account. Your eID is required to start this process and your eID will last for one year after graduation, so you have one year to do this step. The password page described above requires an active eID; if yours is expired, please contact the Alumni Association at csualumni@colostate.edu or (800) 286-2586 and they can help you set a password.

Once you’ve set your password, you can access your e-mail via Gmail. Log in with firstname.lastname13 and your new password.

The first time you do this, you will also be asked to select your preferred language, type a security word, and accept Google’s terms and conditions.

If you’d like to connect with a smartphone or mobile device, or with Microsoft Outlook, read the FAQ for instructions.

Your username@rams.colostate.edu address will expire one year from graduation. If you want to continue using the Google Apps service under the colostate.edu domain, you will need to manually transfer the information from your @rams.colostate.edu account to your @alumni.colostate.edu account.

Before registering for an alumni e-mail account, you must authenticate as a graduate of CSU. Choose one of the following ways.

1. If you are a graduate or employee with an active eID, log in to Donor Connect with your e-name and password, by clicking the Colorado State University (eID) button.
   • Once logged in, you will be presented with a variety of tiles linking to each of the pages on Donor Connect. Please look for the tile called “Lifetime E-mail.” See Step 2 – Registration.
     
     
2. If you do not have an active eID, you’ll need to sign up through Donor Connect, CSU’s online donor and alumni portal, by connecting to one of your preferred social media platforms.Follow these instructions to create a CSU Donor Connect account:
   1. Access the CSU Donor Connect registration page.
   2. Choose which social identity account – Google/Gmail, MSN/Hotmail, or Facebook – you’d like to authenticate in through. If you do not have any of these, please contact the Office of Donor Relations and Stewardship, who can provide you a temporary link and passphrase to start the process. In the future, every time you’d like to access Donor Connect, you can do so by clicking the “Google” option and entering in your lifetime alumni email account and password, since your lifetime e-mail it is Gmail based.
   3. You will be asked a series of questions about your personal information and your time as a student at CSU. Your answers to these questions help us correctly connect to your records at CSU. Once you are authenticated, you will be presented with a variety of tiles linking to each of the pages on Donor Connect. Please look for the tile called “Lifetime E-mail”. Proceed to Step 2 below.

Once authenticated into Donor Connect via one of the two steps above, please find and click on the Lifetime Alumni E-mail tiles.

1. Type an e-mail username. username@alumni.colostate.edu
   This name must be unique among registered users of the @alumni.colostate.edu domain (only one person can have CAM@alumni.colostate.edu!). Once a name has been chosen, it cannot be modified.
2. Type and confirm the password.
3. By default, the newly created e-mail account will become your default e-mail address for future e-communications from Colorado State University. You may uncheck this box.
4. Click Register. (If the username is already in use, you must specify a new one.) The registration confirmation and sign-in page will appear, which lists your account and a link to the main sign-in screen. See Step 3 – Access Your Account.

To access your account,

1. Click the sign-in link
2. Select your preferred language.
3. Type the security word.
4. Review Google’s terms and conditions and either accept or cancel the terms.
5. Begin using your new @alumni.colostate.edu e-mail account!

If you had an @rams.colostate.edu e-mail account, your must manually transfer over your contacts, stored e-mail, docs, etcetera. This does not happen automatically. Please do this before your account expires (one year after graduation).