Upon registration at CBU, all official correspondence from the Office of the Registrar, is sent to students via their CBU email accounts. Students are reminded to check their email regularly and to keep their inbox open for delivery.
The Cape Breton University will only use your university email account for official communications, including messages from your instructors, department or faculty, academic advisors, and other administrative offices.
Student Email Policy Information
The Cape Breton University will only use your university email account for official communications, including messages from your instructors, department or faculty, academic advisors, and other administrative offices.
Why does this policy exist?
Every year Cape Breton University students miss emails with crucial information, including class cancellation notices, assignment deadline changes, notification of outstanding fee balances, deregistration notices, important policy and regulation changes, overdue library notifications, important date reminders, and much more. A related concern is that the university ensures student privacy is not breached.
What does the policy mean?
All official university email communications will only be sent to a student’s CBU’s email account – generally, this includes any communication that could identify you as a Cape Breton University student. This means that:
- Instructors and other staff will not have access to your personal email addresses.
- Instructors are encouraged to outline how email or other methods of electronic communication will be used in courses and their expectations of you in this regard in their course syllabi.
- Instructors and other staff might not open or respond to emails that you send from a personal email account.
What are the implications for you as a student?
- You must activate and use your CBU email account.
- You are expected to be using your CBU email account no later than the end of the Registration Revision Period in your first term of attendance. Some faculties may require this sooner.
- You are responsible for checking for new mail regularly, and for managing your email – if your account fills up, you will no longer receive new emails.
- You should review your course syllabi for information about electronic communication expectations for your classes.
PAYMENTS, DEADLINES, POLICIES & REGULATIONS
Cape Breton University reserves the right, without liability or penalty and without notice, to make changes in its offered services and programs, including alteration of fee schedules, fee regulations, and cancellation of courses, and other relevant policies/regulations. Upon registration, each student becomes bound by the policies and regulations of Cape Breton University. Students are responsible for being familiar with the general information, rules and regulations of Cape Breton University, as well as the specific requirements of each program, degree, diploma or certificate that the student aims to achieve. It is the student’s responsibility to choose courses that are appropriate to the program requirements and understand fee policies/regulations.