Guide to User Roles and Accounts
Your official email address at VCU is your eID@vcu.edu. Different roles at VCU get different email accounts. If you have more than one role at VCU, it is possible that you could have more than one account. This guide explains where your @vcu.edu email will be routed depending on your role(s) at VCU.
Affiliate Google Workspace for Education accounts are enabled by request of the affiliate's department. Affiliate Google Workspace accounts are not automatically provided. Once enabled, these accounts follow the same guidelines as faculty/staff accounts.
Beginning in 2021, Alum email addressed to vcu.edu will arrive in the Google Workspace alumni.vcu.edu account. This email redirection begins when the graduated student has passed the re-enroll period (three semesters) and maintains no active employee or student status. If any employment status is active at either VCU or VCU Health, email redirection for the @vcu.edu address is to the active employee account. If an alum becomes an active student again, email delivery will change to the vcu.edu account. Email specifically addressed to the alumni.vcu.edu address will arrive in the alum account.
Faculty/Staff have Google Workspace for Education accounts in the vcu.edu domain. All email sent to your eID@vcu.edu will be routed to your faculty/staff account. Access to this account will be removed when your employment ends. Faculty may request Emeritus or Retiree status from your HR personnel to keep this account active.
School of Medicine Faculty/Staff have a VCU Google Drive only account for collaboration with other Google Workspace for Education users. VCU Health System (VCUHS) manages email (Office365) for the School of Medicine. Your eID@vcu.edu forwards to your VCUHS (@vcuhealth.org) address.
Employees of VCU Health have an official vcu.edu address. When employed by VCU Health only, email addressed to the vcu.edu address is delivered to the vcuhealth.org address. VCU students also employed by VCU Health will have their vcu.edu email delivered to their student Google Workspace for Education account and their email addressed to their vcuhealth.org address delivered to their Office365 account.