Student Union

The Student Email Group met on Friday (4/10) to recieve the responses to our Request for Proposals (RFP) from various vendors. 5 vendors have responded to the RFP, including Microft (Live@Edu) and Salvair (on behalf of Google for the Education and Primier edition of Google Apps). We are also expecting a few more responses to trickle in over the next week.

Some people have asked why I think that Google Apps for Education is the solution to the email problem. Northwestern is a peer institution that is very similar to WUSTL in terms of size, location and ranking. Northwestern decided to outsource email to Google Apps for Education for many of the same reasons that we want to. In fact, Northwestern's student government was largely responsible for the school's decision!

PRESIDENT-ELECT JEFF NELSON:

Good afternoon—

Today I want to talk about improving student email by outsourcing it to Google Apps for Education.

Our University spends over a quarter million dollars every year to provide email accounts to students, faculty, and staff. Now, when you consider how much money is actually generated from tuition, a quarter million dollars may not seem like much. But if you realize that over the course of your undergraduate experience, the University will spend one million dollars to give you and your peers email accounts, the numbers begin to tell a very different story. Especially when you ask yourself if you've gotten your money's worth

Attachment: 15 March 09 Improving Student Email.pdf

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