BC to eliminate student e-mail accounts

The Chronicle of Higher Education has a story this morning about Boston College eliminating e-mail addresses for students.  Evidently, for the most part, students used their personal accounts and only checked their BC accounts for school-related e-mails.  

Now, students will be given a forwarding address (something like the @alumni.nd.edu that we have through the Alumni Association) so they can maintain their current accounts when they enter the school.

Notre Dame recently switched its student and alumni e-mail services to Google as a better way to manage the communications.