Emergency Notification in an instant
Following the recent campus shootings, universities are seeking the most effective and multifaceted electronic alert systems from a host of IT companies.
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March 6th, 2008 at 4:39 pm
One thing that concerns me about this and other articles about emergency notification efforts is the emphasis that is placed on sending messages to student cell phones. We are a non-residential college, so our students are pretty much only on campus when they are in class. Most instructors require students to TURN OFF their cell phones when they are in class, so efforts focused on notification via cell phone would be misguided in the case of a college like ours. For any college, however, the students most at risk are probably those sitting in classrooms, hopefully with their cell phones turned off. Therefore, we need to get beyond the focus on getting students to have cell phones and getting them to sign up for emergency cell phone notification and find other ways to notify students in and out of class when there is a dangerous situation on campus.