For those who use it, e-mail is such a regular and essential part of everyday communications that one wonders how one ever did without it and just how many others are using it regularly. The principal channel for undergraduate e-mail activities at UCI is NACS’ EA (Educational Access) system.
During the last week of Winter Quarter 1998, just over 13,000 different students used the EA system. Broken down on by academic unit (and excluding those units with only graduate programs) usage ranged between 82% (in the School of the Arts) and 92% (in Social Sciences) of total student enrollment. Across all academic units with undergraduate programs, the number of students accessing the EA system in the tenth week of Winter quarter represented 85% of total student enrollment.