CR80News | Michigan university includes texting in emergency alerts

Friday, August 22, 2008

Students and staff at Oakland University, Rochester, Mich., will now receive a text message and a voice mail under a new alert system that has gone into effect. The alerts are part of the school’s comprehensive emergency communications plan to notify students, faculty and staff as quickly as possible if an emergency situation occurs on campus.

“The text message system is designed to quickly alert community members who are not sitting in front of a computer or desk phone,” said Oakland University Police Chief Samuela Lucido.

To take advantage of the service, students and employees must provide contact information, including their ID information and e-mail address, via the school’s Emergency Preparedness Web site. Voice alerts are available for those without text messaging capability.

Widener University, in Chester, Pa. has implemented a new student emergency notification system with the aid of ActiveCrawl RSS.

Using ActiveCrawl RSS, deployed through e2Campus, Widener campus can send emergency notifications that appear as text crawls on the computer desktops of all students, faculty and staff. The ActiveCrawl RSS enables Widener to incorporate its other emergency notification platforms into one automatic, synchronized alert.

Western Michigan begins registration for WMUAlert

Western Michigan University has launched the registration for a new emergency communication system, WMU Alert, which is designed to place thousands of phone calls to students, faculty and staff in the event of an extreme campus emergency.

FSCJ taps Higher One for student disbursements

Florida State College at Jacksonville has partnered with technology and payment services provider Higher One to help electronically distribute Financial Aid and other refund disbursements to students.

NMU elects Wells Fargo as financial services provider

Northern Michigan University has selected Wells Fargo as the new financial services provider for the Wildcat Express Card, the university’s official campus ID card.

Beginning this fall, NMU students and faculty will be able to link their Wildcat Express Cards to their Wells Fargo checking and savings account for ATM and PIN debit card access. NMU’s University Center will also be home to a new Wells Fargo banking location and ATM.

University Business, Higher One honors Models of Efficiency

University Business Magazine and Higher One are honoring seven colleges and universities in their summer 2010 Models of Efficiency program, to honor institutions of higher learning that meet the education business and technology challenges of today’s campuses.

East Coast Diversified receives $90,000 order for RFID container-tracking product

East Coast Diversified, Atlanta, Ga., announced that its RFID and GPS division, EarthSearch Communications, has received a $90,000 purchase order from IT service provider AHCC for 200 TrailerSeals.

Subscribe

Print Magazine

Featured Events

Links

Searching …

Michigan university includes texting in emergency alerts