Emergency Notification System
From U of I Wiki
The Emergency Notification System is the software used to distribute e-mails and SMS (text) messages to students, staff and faculty in the event of an emergency on the Urbana-Champaign campus.
The system was inspired by the need to quickly alert students about a possible crisis after 32 students were murdered at Virginia Technical Institute in April 2007.
Students, staff and faculty who sign up can register multiple e-mails addresses and mobile telephone numbers. Twenty-five percent of students had signed up with the system in February, 2008, since its creation in fall, 2007.
The university planned in July, 2008, to alert people of a crisis through "pop-up adlike notices" on the university's website, Illinois.edu.
Mutare Software of Schaumburg, Ill., wrote the system software. Employees of the company have connections to the university and donated its services.
