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	grrliz 2010-01-17 11:12 pm UTC (link)
	There are schools that send emergency announcements via text message? Wow. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	sequinedlizard 2010-01-17 11:21 pm UTC (link)
	Yeah, some schools will do it for class cancellations and weather emergency stuff. I know Pittsburgh did it for when the snow was really bad, can't think if other situations came up where it was needed. (Reply to this)(Parent)

keri
2010-01-17 11:27 pm UTC (link)

My undergrad uni did it, but it was opt-in and they always ALSO sent an email out and you could register a phone number for the automated system to leave a message at. Plus if there was an emergency (like the time when a tropical storm flooded one of the buildings and shorted the electricity to the entire block, so everyone was told not to go near), they had an alert on the front page of the school website, and some sort of system that sent a pop-up to the in-classroom computers.

Dunno how it'd work for instructors that didn't turn the computers on, but for the most part, the school tried to use as many different ways to get the information out as possible.

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	adevyish 2010-01-18 12:21 am UTC (link)
	Mine does! What is even neater is that my school will use the name of their wireless networks to announce things. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	agent_hyatt 2010-01-18 12:25 am UTC (link)
	Yes. My school. That's really how they let students know that there was a murder in a building and that people should keep away. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	insanitys_place 2010-01-18 12:27 am UTC (link)
	Mine does. I get text messages for every type of emergency, even campus closing! (Reply to this)(Parent)

	evilsqueakers 2010-01-18 02:10 am UTC (link)
	Mine does and they call, too. It's how we knew a Very Bad Man was at the Clarkston campus of my school and wasn't allowed to be there. By way of the police's insistence since he threatened a professor. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	lyssa 2010-01-19 03:54 am UTC (link)
	Yup. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	snarkhunter 2010-01-20 01:25 am UTC (link)
	A whole bunch have moved to it that system, especially in the wake of the Virginia Tech massacre. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	daughterofhelen 2010-01-23 12:09 pm UTC (link)
	I had a professor who INSISTED we not turn our phones off during an exam in case an alert came over the emergency text system. And this is the guy who was still using transparencies and photo slides. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	rachel_pi 2010-01-24 12:58 am UTC (link)
	Message or phone call. The high school I teach at has an automated system in case school is canceled and they're working on a text message alert system for the campus, since we don't have a PA system (too many different buildings). (Reply to this)(Parent)

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