Beginning now, all faculty, staff, and student account passwords will have an expiration date, and periodically require a reset. This is part of the transition to Account Center, and helps ensure that campus accounts remain secure. If you haven’t recently changed your password you will receive an email notifying you of password expiration. You will receive subsequent reminders until you change your password.

The expiration notices will look like the below image.  Read the “Note” for tips on how to determine if an email is from a legitimate sender.

To avoid having your password expire you can go to the CSU, Chico Portal now to confirm your account recovery information and set a new password.

CSU, Chico has moved to a new account and identity management system called Account Center. This new system controls the way that campus accounts are created and managed, and provides a number of improvements over previous systems including more self-service and password recovery options.

Please login to the Portal and go to Account Center to ensure that your password recovery information and display name are correct. We recommend you do this now to ensure your access to campus resources for the fall semester.

Information Resources has launched a new system called Account Center. This new system controls the way that campus users’ accounts are created and managed, and provides a number of improvements over previous systems. Please see the major changes included below:

• New employee accounts are now created automatically in Blackboard Learn, Office 365, Google Apps, Active Directory and LDAP (previously this was a series of manual processes)
• Campus users can manage their own display name in systems such as Blackboard Learn, Office 365, and Google Apps (Wildcat Mail)
• Updates to display names causes changes to the way that names are displayed/searchable in Office 365
• New faculty get access to course shells and student data in Blackboard Learn after I9 processes are complete (policy requirement)
• All students now have Active Directory accounts
• All student employees now have Office 365 (Exchange) accounts
• New password management tools provide additional self-service options for account recovery
• New password rules will be implemented for employees and students

 **Important**

Please login to the Portal and go to Account Center to ensure that your password recovery information and display name are correct.

 The Account Center system is part of the University’s Identity & Access Management initiative. The implementation of Account Center has been a collaborative effort between Information Resources, Human Resources, Student Affairs, Faculty Affairs, and Graduate Studies with the primary goal of enabling the right individuals the right access for the right reasons at the right times.

For further information regarding Account Center, please see the Account Center FAQ at https://support.csuchico.edu/TDClient/KB/ArticleDet?ID=30472.