Your CruzID is your UCSC account, sometimes referred to as your username, that gives you access to many IT services at UCSC such as email, wireless networking, eCommons, MyUCSC, Campus Directory and ResNet. For example, in an email address such as bslug@ucsc.edu, the "bslug" is the CruzID. 

Everyone at UCSC is issued CruzIDs when they are hired or enroll. People who have been at UCSC for a while may know their CruzID by other names: "UCSCID," "CruzMail account," "CATS account," "username."

• Getting Your CruzID
• CruzID Passwords
• CruzID Account Closure

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Getting Your CruzID

Staff and Faculty employees are given a CruzID form during their on-boarding process to complete, sign, and email or fax the form to the ITS Support Center for processing.

If you are affiliated with UCSC, but not an undergraduate, graduate, staff, or faculty, you may request a sundry account that gives you a CruzID. Sundry accounts are reviewed annually. Affiliates who qualify for a Sundry CruzID are: concurrently enrolled students, extension students, Summer Session students, and individuals/agencies officially affiliated with UCSC such as contractors. In some cases, sponsors are required for Sundry applicants; each sponsor must be a career UCSC employee who can attest to the identity of the applicant. Eligibility is subject to compliance with university policy.

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CruzID Passwords

CruzIDs may use different passwords, depending on the service or application that you login to. How do you know which one to use? In most cases, the password is indicated with a Gold password or Blue password icon on the login screen.

If you don't know your CruzID password, please call the ITS Support Center at (831) 459-4357. If you are a student, you can submit an IT Request Ticket to request your password. Faculty and staff must call and verify their identity over the phone.

• Password Help

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CruzID Account Closure

CruzIDs for all employees will be closed when the employee separates from the campus. The employee's unit may contact the ITS Support Center to request an extension or re-enabling of the account if there is a business need for the account to remain open. Supervisors may not access employees’ email accounts after employees leave.

Faculty accounts will remain active for 90 days beyond their separation date. The unit may contact the ITS Support Center to request an extension of the account. Faculty will retain their faculty affiliation for 90 days (a.k.a. one quarter) prior to an appointment and for 90 days after an appointment ends.

Student accounts remain open for one quarter after the last quarter in which the student was enrolled in classes. For example, the CruzID for a student who was last enrolled in the spring quarter will remain active through the end of the following fall quarter.

Senate faculty upon retirement maintain their accounts as professors emeritus. Other retired faculty and staff may request that their CruzID remain open during retirement. Department approval is required. Contact the ITS Support Center.