Omnilert®, LLC today announced that several Virginia colleges and universities have recently implemented the e2Campus® emergency notification system well before the Virginia mandated deadline of January 1, 2009. The Commonwealth of Virginia passed Senate Bill Number 538 that requires an emergency notification system at every public institution of higher education by January 1, 2009.
Schools that have implemented an e2Campus emergency notification system since the bill’s passage include Bridgewater College, Christendom College, Eastern Mennonite University, Hollins University, Randolph-Macon College, and Virginia Intermont College.
“We conducted a thorough analysis of emergency notification providers and chose e2Campus because they are the most reliable,” said Carol Reed, Chief Information Officer at Hollins University. “Our main focus is to ensure our students are notified immediately of an emergency on campus. We have performed numerous onsite tests of e2Campus, which have all been extremely successful.”
“Although we’re not a public institution, we wanted to implement an ENS before the deadline at the end of this year. If you are a public college or university in Virginia without an ENS, then I would recommend e2Campus because it can be up and running in a day, well before the deadline. We’re now looking into expanding e2Campus’ reach by adding Alertus beacons around campus to notify people not already plugged into the cell phone alerts,” continued Reed.
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Omnilert November 2008 press release.
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