Updating Your Home Email Address in MyCWU for Students

Summary

A simple guide to have students keep their home email address up-to-date and allows users to recover their MyCWU account.

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Summary

 

This article guides students through the steps of updating their home email address in MyCWU. CWU uses this information to provide you will account access support and emergency notifications. 

 

Updating this information is best on a computer and using the Full Site. Here is a link to a YouTube tutorial:

 

 

 

Steps

Step One: Visit my.cwu.edu.

 

Step Two: Select Sign In in the top right corner.

MyCWU homepage with a red arrow pointing to the Sign In button in the top-right corner.

 

Step Three:

  1. Enter your CWU username (Example: Username@cwu.edu).
  2. Select Next.

 

Step Four

  1. Enter your CWU password.
  2. Select Sign in.

 

Step Five: Select the Student tab. 

 

Step Six

  1. Select Personal in the navigation bar on the far left side. 
  2. Select Addresses in the dropdown menu.

 

 

Step Seven:

  1. Select the Email Addresses tab. 
  2. Select Add Email Address or edit the current Home Email Address
  3. Select Save.
Note: Make sure the home email address is NOT the same as your CWU Email Address.

 

 

 

Additional Resources

Here is are related article on Updating Your Personal Information in MyCWU and Preferred Name Change for Students in MyCWU

 

Submit a Service Request

  • Submit a service request.
  • If you need assistance with the above process, you can submit an online request and our Information Services staff will reach out to you. 

 

  • You can also call the CWU Service Desk at 509-963-2001.

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Article ID: 10953
Created
Thu 1/28/16 12:54 PM
Modified
Tue 3/17/26 4:17 PM

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