NFPA Approves 2010 Fire Code With Notification Chapter
QUINCY, Mass.
QUINCY, Mass.
LOS ANGELES
A major urban university with more than 28,000 undergraduate and graduate students needed a mass notification system capable of delivering immediate notification and instructions if there is an emergency on campus. But timely text, e-mail and phone messages can often be hampered by bandwidth-limitations and lack of flexibility.
Here’s how you might be able to solve the database and portal management problems associated with campus emergency alert systems.
Through the university’s preparation for the event, as well as its e2Campus mass notification system, MSUM was not only able to notify students and staff of life safety information, but also gather enough sandbagging volunteers to prevent further damage to the city.
Many colleges and universities recognize that instant, multi-modal communication to students and faculty during an emergency situation will keep their campus community as safe as possible. However, few emergency management personnel know how to deploy a multi-modal notification system in the most effective way.
New emergency alert systems offer a wide variety of possibilities, but remember, it’s the policies that must be developed before, during and after the purchase that will determine the success or failure of the system.
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.
Here’s how campuses can start to tackle some of the shortcomings associated with text messaging disaster notification solutions.
Many college and university officials are breathing a little easier now that the reauthorized Higher Education Opportunity Act (HEA) does not include the 30-minute notice provision. Still, no one should get too comfortable.
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