Go to the App Store and download the IBM Verse app and login using your Marist Mail information.Once you are in Marist Mail you need to click on the “mail” tab to access your email.All previous FoxMail login information is the exact same for the Marist Mail system.You can also log into your MyMarist and click on the square at the top right corner then click on the Marist Mail option.įrom those two points you will be brought to the Marist Mail site and you can easily put in your account information and sign in.One way to access Marist Mail is to go to /currentstudents and click on the Marist Mail button.Here are some steps to access Marist Mail. Note: the traditional Google search will not bring you to where you need to go. There is no need to worry as there are several ways to get into Marist Mail from your computer and onto your phone. However, over the past three weeks it seems that many students have been confused on how to access Marist Mail and are missing important emails because of this switch. Maybe the biggest addition is the app that you can download straight to your phone. Additionally, you are able to look up any student, professor, or administrator to get in contact with through Marist Mail. It is full of features such as: messaging, communities, contacts, calendar integration. Marist Mail addresses a lot of the improvements that students were looking for in FoxMail. Marist Mail is replacing FoxMail as FoxMail was in great need of a major overhaul and will no longer be a service for students starting in November. It all started when I was reading the DailySkimm email I get every weekday morning.In the first week of classes students and faculty at Marist College were introduced to the new email system on campus, Marist Mail. It was my spring semester during my sophomore year of college, and I was cleaning out my inbox. The DailySkimm is a quick-read email that gives a breakdown of the global news. As I got to the bottom of the email, I saw a small blurb describing an organization called Food Recovery Network. Curious, I clicked on the link and it brought me to their national website. After navigating through the site’s different tabs and content, something sparked inside me. This was a cause primarily focused on recovering perishable food and bringing it to those in need. I was already in the mindset that wasting perfectly edible food was a huge taboo, and here was a non-profit organization whose mission was to fight food waste. I wondered to myself, Why doesn’t Marist College have a system like this on campus? What happened to all of the leftovers Sodexo has at the end of the day? Does that get thrown away too? I thought about all of those dishes and plates full of food on the dining rack in our school’s main dining hall, all about to be dumped in the trash. I closed my browser, and over the next few days, Food Recovery Network and its’ mission lingered in the back of my mind, and eventually I decided to take action.Ĭold-calling wasn’t exactly my strong suit. The first step in bringing a Food Recovery Network chapter to Marist was to contact Food Recovery Network’s national headquarters about inquiring to begin the process. I reread my email several times, making sure everything was formal and I had zero grammatical errors. “To whom it may concern, hello, my name is Nicole Souza, and I am currently a junior…”. Once I read all the way down to my signature at the bottom of the message, I clicked send. Even though it only took Sara Ribakove, one of the FRN National Fellows that helped me through the whole process, 48 hours to respond back to me, it felt like weeks passed because I was waiting in anticipation. Reading her email, I could practically hear her enthusiastic voice. “I’m SO excited to hear you want to start a chapter at Marist College!.”. She outlined the steps of what I had to go through to start my chapter: recruit a leadership team, find a partner agency, and get dining approval. It didn’t seem like a hefty process looking at the roadmap PDF for starting a Food Recovery Network chapter. But little did I know what I was getting myself into. Spring 2015 was where a majority of the prep work occurred for gathering my leadership team, contacting Sodexo dining services and partner agencies, and prepping for recovery runs. Hannah Gingerich was another FRN National Fellow who helped me bring FRN to Marist, and both she and Sara helped me every step of the way, which I am very appreciative of. After the spring semester had passed, we were able to complete our first official recovery run during the fall 2015 semester. When we were preparing for our very first recovery run the night before, there was a constant red notification sign on my Facebook home page from my Food Recovery Network leadership team’s Facebook group message.
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