Re: emergency alert system

[Ken Connelly <Ken.Connelly () UNI EDU>]

Morrow Long wrote:
> On Apr 15, 2008, at 3:08 PM, Kevin Shalla wrote:
> > The Student Affairs people here at UIC are interested in creating a
> > system for emergency alerts (notifying students of some campus
> > emergency), and requiring students to update that information before
> > they can register.  We already have an SMS emergency message system
> > available, but have no requirement for its use, and of course it
> > won't reach people who don't have text messaging available.  Have
> > others heard desire for this?  What have you done about it?
>
> Several universities in this area have implemented such systems
> post-Virginia Tech.
>
> See http://www.yale.edu/secretary/yalealert/ and
> http://www.yale.edu/secretary/yalealert/faq.html
>
> Morrow
What Morrow said!  Ours is not mandated, but obviously encouraged.  It
is outsourced and uses a variety of channels:

   * text messages
   * voice calls to office phones
   * voice calls to cell phones
   * voice calls to home phones
   * e-mail

Each subscriber can have at least one each of the above.  See:
http://www.uni.edu/resources/alert/  and
http://www.uni.edu/resources/alert/faq.shtml

We've also used this once for real:  http://weblogs.uni.edu/alert/

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- Ken
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Ken Connelly             Associate Director, Security and Systems
ITS Network Services                  University of Northern Iowa
email: Ken.Connelly () uni edu   p: (319) 273-5850 f: (319) 273-7373