{"id":213,"date":"2017-08-15T16:41:18","date_gmt":"2017-08-15T16:41:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wcsusupport.wpengine.com\/?post_type=ht_kb&#038;p=213"},"modified":"2026-04-10T17:28:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T17:28:10","slug":"faculty-introduction-to-email","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/support.wcsu.edu\/?ht_kb=faculty-introduction-to-email","title":{"rendered":"Faculty: Instructions on how to get your Western accounts set-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All new faculty members get a University account which allows for access to campus computers, Blackboard, Wolvesnet, and Email.<\/p>\n<p>In order to get the credentials for a new account, all faculty members will need to contact the IT Service Desk at 203-837-8467. Once we verify your information over the phone and confirm your employment with Human Resources, we will proceed to give you a temporary password that will allow you sign into your account for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>All faculty and staff members are encouraged to regularly utilize their WCSU Account for official Western business.<\/p>\n<p>Your email address follows the format of &#8220;lastnamefi@wcsu.edu&#8221;. &#8220;fi&#8221; stands for first initial.\u00a0 For example, John Smith would use: smithj@wcsu.edu<\/p>\n<p>You can\u00a0 download the Microsoft Outlook application to your mobile device and access your email through your smart device. Follow this link for instructions:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/support.wcsu.edu\/?ht_kb=how-do-i-set-up-my-email-account-on-my-mobile-device\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Set-up WCSU Email on Mobile Devices<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All new faculty members get a University account which allows for access to campus computers, Blackboard, Wolvesnet, and Email. In order to get the credentials for a new account, all faculty members will need to contact the IT Service Desk at 203-837-8467. Once we verify your information over the phone&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"ht-kb-category":[17,18,21],"ht-kb-tag":[],"class_list":["post-213","ht_kb","type-ht_kb","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","ht_kb_category-accounts","ht_kb_category-email","ht_kb_category-password"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.wcsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.wcsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.wcsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/ht_kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.wcsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.wcsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=213"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/support.wcsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2840,"href":"https:\/\/support.wcsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/213\/revisions\/2840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.wcsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.wcsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fht-kb-category&post=213"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.wcsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fht-kb-tag&post=213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}