A newsletter for the students, faculty and staff of the Collin County Community College District. Published monthly. For information or submissions, call 972.758.3849. Cougar News welcomes student and faculty submissions. Next deadline: Sept. 10. All submissions are due by 5 p.m. on the due date. Photos cannot be returned. Text should be emailed to mrobinson@ccccd.edu or sent on disk. Please submit copy that is proofed, edited and saved in Word format. Cougar News staff: Lisa Vasquez, director; Mark Robinson, editor; Marcy Cadena-Smith, contributor; Sydney Portilla-Diggs, student correspondent; Stephanie Hall, student correspondent; Ana Colores Palmer, student correspondent; Nick Young, photographer; Layout by Publications
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College ditches ‘snail mail’ for Cougar Mail
By Stephanie Hall, Student Correspondent
Starting this fall, Collin County Community College District (Collin) will no longer send its students important information regarding school matters using "snail mail."
Instead, Collin will now use the cyber speed of the Internet to send its students relevant and current information.
“We have not had a college-wide e-mail system before, so this is a new initiative for Collin,” Stephanie Meinhardt, registrar and director of admissions, said.
The new cyber mail, which is called Cougar Mail, will enable the college to send students information quicker and easier than sending mail through the post office, she said. Because physical as well as personal e-mail addresses change all the time, Cougar Mail will be a separate system so students will always have a consistent place to log on to in order to find out pertinent school information.
“By using Cougar Mail, Collin will have an official way of communication with the students and a more accurate way of contacting the students,” Meinhardt said.
Because this is the new official way to send students important school information, students cannot be removed from the mailing list, Meinhardt said.
“Furthermore, it will be the responsibility of the students to be diligent about reading Cougar Mail from the college,” she said.
Students will receive information concerning tuition bills, financial aid, student activities, registration information, the college newspaper, Cougar News, and much more through Cougar Mail, Meinhardt said. Students will also receive information that was once only accessible by searching through bulletin boards school such as information from the counseling office that might be of interest to the student body, Meinhardt said.
“Information regarding alcohol awareness, depression awareness, and such can now be sent via e-mail,” she said.
With this new system, students will receive up-to-date news and information, which will help students as well as the faculty at the college, she said.
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