Campus Community Encouraged to Participate in Alert Service
January 30, 2008
08-019
Campus Community Encouraged to Participate in Alert Service
VALDOSTA - Âé¶¹ÊÓÆµ encourages its campus
community to participate in the Âé¶¹ÊÓÆµ Campus Alert service, an
emergency notification system that contacts participants with voice
messages via phone and email.
Last spring, the university acquired the services of Connect-ED to
provide campus leaders and security professionals the ability to
reach all students, faculty and staff with time-sensitive
information during unforeseen events or emergencies through a
single phone call.
The Âé¶¹ÊÓÆµ Campus Alert service enables campus leaders to schedule,
send and track personalized voice messages, and can also send text
messages to cell phones and email addresses. Students, faculty and
staff must opt-in to have their contact information included for
alerts by entering their information
.
“When an emergency or pressing situation, such as a hurricane or
health issue like potential pandemic flu, arises, one of the
primary courses of action is to alert our student community
immediately,” said Robert A. DeLong, Âé¶¹ÊÓÆµ’s Director of
Environmental and Occupational Safety. “With Âé¶¹ÊÓÆµ Campus Alert we
have a system where we will now be able to reach students, faculty
and staff with accurate information minimum delay. We just need to
collect the best contact information like cell phone
numbers.”
Âé¶¹ÊÓÆµ officials say that with cell phone numbers included in the Âé¶¹ÊÓÆµ
Campus Alert service, when students are handling their day-to-day
activities, they can be assured that they will still be reached
with important information, even if they are not on campus or tuned
into local news.
Officials say the contact information included in Âé¶¹ÊÓÆµ Campus Alert
service will only be used for campus notifications and will not be
made available to any other service.
“We will continue to respect the privacy of our students, faculty
and staff, therefore, their cell phone numbers will not be shared
with any third parties for commercial or other purposes,” said Joe
Newton, Âé¶¹ÊÓÆµ’s Director of Information Technology.
Newton said students, faculty and staff wanting to be contacted
through the Âé¶¹ÊÓÆµ Campus Alert service should submit their
information at
.
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