Getting a BearMail Account

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When you are admitted to UNC, a BearMail account is automatically created the day after admission.  This account is the one used by faculty and University offices to communicate with you so it’s important to use your UNC Student Email.  For example, notices of your Financial Aid award letter are sent to your UNC Student Email account.

Here are some things you will want to know:

• You can access your BearMail account on the Web, using UNC’s BearMail site.  Just use any browser with internet access.
• To find your email address go to the main URSA page and there is a link labeled "New Student? Click here" and another labeled "New Students Start Here".  They go to the same place and can be used to activate your email/URSA account.   You will need your Bear Number to log into this utility.  This activation is meant to work only one time, so if this does not work you will need to contact the technical Support Center at (970) 351-4357.
• You can find both URSA and Bearmail links off of the Current Student page at http://www.unco.edu/current.
• You will need to check your Bearmail account for a forward as the current process creates Bearmail accounts and puts the email account the student had listed in their record before they were a student( if there was one ) as a forward in their Bearmail.
• You can forward BearMail to another account (hotmail, yahoo, etc.)  - visit this URL for instructions: Forwarding
• Your account is active as long as you are enrolled for Fall and Spring terms, you do not have to enroll for Summer term classes.
• For more information, visit the links on the left side column of this website. 

Here are some email terms you will hear on campus:

  BearMail - the software UNC uses to provide Student
      Email on the Web.

  Blue - the name of the server hosting the Student Email
      accounts.

  URSA - The UNC portal where a student can also access their email.

Need some help?  Contact User Support at (970) 351- 4357.

Page Last Update:  10/31/2006