What a Student Should Do Before Leaving Western
When you leave Western, your Universal Account, including email, OneDrive, and wireless access, will be deleted. Deletion will occur one full quarter after leaving, excluding summer, so please consider the following tips to prevent losing valuable data or resources. If you will continue to be enrolled the following quarter, no action is necessary.
You will receive a warning linking you to this page when you graduate, as well as messaging from ATUS to your Western email account a couple weeks prior to your Western account being disabled.
Transfer Email:
Forward or copy any email messages you want to keep to another email account
- When your Western account is disabled, any forwarding rules you had setup will no longer work.
- If you have a lot of messages, you can also export your email.
- Notify others (e.g., friends, relatives, potential employers, email lists) of your change in email address
Move Stored Files:
Remove files from your OneDrive for Office 365 account to an external drive or cloud storage. Your OneDrive for Office 365 account will be inaccessible after you graduate, so the files stored in these locations need to be moved to a hard drive or to another personal cloud storage service.
View instructions for how to download OneDrive files before leaving Western.
If you had utilized Google Workspace, you would need to move any files you want to keep off of Google Workspace as well.
If you had utilized Google Workspace, you would need to move any files you want to keep off of Google Workspace as well.
Request Print Balance Refund:
Request a refund of your paid Print Balance by emailing HelpDesk@wwu.edu from your WWU email account (@wwu.edu) no later than Friday of Finals Week. You can continue to print after the request is made. Refunds for balances of $2.00 or more as of the Tuesday after graduation will be applied to your student account and will first be used to pay outstanding charges. Any remaining credit will be refunded by the refunding preference you have selected.
- If you have not selected a direct deposit refunding preference, please contact the Student Business Office at sbo@wwu.edu, OM 360, 360-650-2865
- If you have selected your direct deposit refunding preference, please make sure your permanent mailing address is correct in Web 4U
Access Transcripts:
- Download unofficial transcripts from Web4U while your Universal Account is still active. Access official or unofficial transcripts after graduation here.
- Re-check the answers to your password security questions so you can access Web4U after your Universal Account has been deleted