Trends: Email out of vogue with youth?

E-Mail is for Old People
As students ignore their campus accounts, colleges try new ways of communicating
By DAN CARNEVALE
From the Chronicle of Higher Education issue dated October 6, 2006

Excerpt: College officials around the country find that a growing number of students are missing important messages about deadlines, class cancellations, and events sent to them by e-mail because, well, the messages are sent to them by e-mail.
In response, some institutions require that students check their college e-mail accounts so they do not miss announcements, holding students responsible for official information that comes through that medium. Other institutions are attempting to figure out what technology students are using to try to reach them there.
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