Campuses Continue to Invest in Emergency Notification Systems and Upgrades

Campuses are now using new-hire orientations to attract users to their text messaging systems much more than they did four years ago. In 2010, only 39% (overall) used this approach, while today 53% use employee orientations to get staff members to sign up. Additionally, automatic enrollment with opt-out is much more popular now than it was in 2010. Overall in 2014, 31% of survey respondents who have a text message system now use this approach. Four years ago, only 11% used the opt-out option overall. On the flip side, sign-up tables have lost favor. Now only 10% of overall survey respondents use this approach, while 14% used it in 2010.