Customer: Longwood University, Farmville, Va.
Company: Cooper Notification, Sarasota, Fla.
Background
Longwood University, located in Farmville, Va. was founded in 1839. Nearly 5,000 students are enrolled at the university with 70 percent of undergraduates living on campus. With more than 800 full-time and part-time faculty and staff, the university has 50 buildings on the 60-acre campus and 32 buildings off campus.
Longwood University’s Needs
Although emergency communications has always been a primary concern of Longwood University, the university was unable to communicate to the campus community quickly and efficiently in an emergency.
Like many colleges, Longwood University officials relied on emergency contact phone trees for internal communications and media outlets for external communications. There were no means to notify students who were outdoors or off-campus within seconds of a disaster or if there was a power outage.
“The events at Virginia Tech and other schools across the country have demonstrated the necessity to create redundant effective systems that provide information among many pathways,” said Director of EH&S and EM Dan Dillon, Longwood University.
