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Faculty Web Server (urban):
How to apply for an account on the social science faculty web server


Full-time faculty & adjuncts: Send an e-mail request to Nick Trippel at sscl@hunter.cuny.edu including the following:
  • Full name
  • Department
  • Position (faculty/adjunct/etc.)
  • Campus address
  • Campus phone number
  • E-mail address
  • A login name (16 characters or less)

    (Please note that your login name will be part of the URL for your home page.
    For example, if your login name is "lastname", your URL will be:
    http://urban.hunter.cuny.edu/~lastname/
    )

You will be assigned an initial password and you are expected to change this initial password the first time you log in to your account on urban using the "passwd" command and following the on screen instructions. Please use a password which is unique to this account and use at least six
characters, preferably a combination of letters and numbers.


Graduate Students: A graduate student must be sponsored by a professor in a social science department.  The procedure for a student getting approval and applying for an account is the following:

1.  Send an e-mail message to the professor including the following

  • Full name
  • Department
  • Address
  • Phone number
  • E-mail address
  • A login name (16 characters or less)
           
    (Please note that your login name will be part of the URL for your home page.
    For example, if your login name is "lastname", your URL will be:
    http://urban.hunter.cuny.edu/~lastname/
    )

2.  Have the professor forward this e-mail message to Nick Trippel indicating his/her sponsorship. After the account is created, account information will be sent to the sponsoring professor.

 

This page was last updated on October 24, 2013


Hunter College, Social Sciences Computing Lab
East Building, Room B118, 695 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10065
phone: 212-772-5605
email address: sscl@hunter.cuny.edu