Students and @u email owners: Managing your @u.northwestern.edu (or other G Suite) display name, alias and grad year

To create an email alias that reflects your name as you would like it to be displayed in University systems, follow the steps below. 

Setting up alternate email aliases

Your official student email address will reflect your name as listed in CAESAR, typically formatted as FirstnameLastnameYear@u.northwestern.edu. You can add up to two nicknames, or email aliases, on your email account using the instructions in the Managing Your Google Workspace Account - Adding an Alternative Email Alias page.

• An email alias is an additional email address.
  For example, a nickname for JoeWildcat2008@u.northwestern.edu could be joew@u.northwestern.edu.
• You can send and receive mail sent to your official account name or any of your account aliases.

Once you have set up an alternate email alias, you can modify your email settings to send email from your nickname. Email sent to your alias will automatically come to your email account with no need for additional setup.

Changing your display name

You can also change your display name, the name that appears to recipients when you send email.  To learn more about updating your display name, please see the Managing Your Google Workspace Account - Changing Your Display Name page.

• If you are experiencing issues changing your display name, please contact servicedesk@northwestern.edu for assistance. 

Updating your graduation year

If your anticipated graduation year changes, you can update the year in your email address. Please see the please see the Managing Your Google Workspace Account - Updating Your Graduation Year page.

If you accidentally set up your email address to use a random string of alphanumeric characters (a “FERPA email address”) upon activating your account, you can switch to a FirstnameLastnameYear formatted email address. Please see the please see the Managing Your Google Workspace Account - Changing a FERPA Email Address page.