SNHU Offers Text Message Alerts to Campus Community

Southern New Hampshire University has recently adopted a new notification system that enables the school to send urgent news to its campus community. The opt-in service called SNHU Alerts, allows the university to send text to a cell phone with timely information about emergencies and class cancellations or delays.

The new system, powered by e2Campus, enables school officials to send instant alerts directly to registered subscribers’ e-mail accounts and/or mobile phones via SMS text messages. Subscribers can also receive the alerts via RSS, wireless PDA, and your “My Yahoo,” “My AOL,” or personalized iGoogle home page.

“The safety of our students, faculty and staff is the university’s number one priority,” said Dr. Scott Kalicki, vice president for Student Affairs. “SNHU Alerts is another tool that allows us to quickly and efficiently communicate timely information to our campus community regarding unforeseen events. It will be used with other existing systems – e-mail, voice-mail, and the Web – to communicate to our campus in times of emergency.”

SNHU Alerts, will be used to communicate important information during any potential emergency, such as a snow delay or closing, homeland security advisory, weather warning, gas leak, fire, crime watch, power failure, boil-water advisory, parking lot closure, or other event.

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