Western Michigan University has launched the registration for a new emergency communication system, WMU Alert, which is designed to place thousands of phone calls to students, faculty and staff in the event of an extreme campus emergency. Any member of the campus community can register a phone number – cell phone, office or home phone […]

Blackboard recently announced integration for Blackboard Learn and Blackboard Connect to extend its capabilities in mass notification and alerts for colleges and universities, and deliver communications in modes that students and faculty prefer. New features include rich-text HTML e-mail support that allows clients to create and send messages with formatted text, embedded images and hyperlinks […]

Shorewood High School in Wisconsin installed the Help Alert emergency call solution from RF Technologies, a real time locating system that equips teachers with WiFi pendants that can be used to request immediate assistance in the event of a medical or security emergency. When a teacher presses the button, a silent signal is immediately transmitted […]

Blackboard entered into an agreement to acquire Saf-T-Net, Inc., provider of AlertNow, a messaging and mass notification solution for K-12 schools. The acquisition will total approximately $33 million, excluding transaction costs and subject to certain adjustments. Saf-T-Net provides features that Blackboard will use to enhance and accelerate development of it’s own messaging and mass notification […]

With more than 53,000 students, the University of Central Florida has chosen to incorporate viaRadio’s ENVOY Emergency Solutions platform to cover its 1,415-acre Orlando campus. The ENVOY system delivers unlimited, time-sensitive text messages to viaRadio’s HEARO Local Alert Receivers, which are strategically placed to alert listeners of looming weather conditions, NOAA weather warnings and other […]

Widener University, in Chester, Pa. has implemented a new student emergency notification system with the aid of ActiveCrawl RSS. Using ActiveCrawl RSS, deployed through e2Campus, Widener campus can send emergency notifications that appear as text crawls on the computer desktops of all students, faculty and staff. The ActiveCrawl RSS enables Widener to incorporate its other […]

Barclaycard customers will now have the option of adding MasterCard’s inControl service to their contacless Orange credit cards. inControl grants cardholders the ability to set spending controls and receive real-time information about their accounts. Customers can go online and set personalized controls and spend budgets, with SMS alerts or emails instantly sent to tell the […]

Two more universities have signed up with TipNow, the San Jose, Calif.-based text messaging service designed to increase campus safety by allowing students to anonymously notify campus security personnel regarding non-emergency suspicious activity. California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo and Quinnipiac University, Hamden, Conn., are now offering the new service from Resiligence, Inc., […]

Heartland Payment Systems’ Campus Solutions division is integrating its Campus OneCard with Alert Notification, a nationwide membership service that provides a 24-hour-a-day call center to alert family when an accident or medical emergency occurs. Students who sign up for the Alert Notification system will have their Alert Notification numbers on their OneCards. If an incident […]

University campuses have gotten smaller, not in terms of physical layout, but in the time it takes to reach out to a student. Land line telephones are old news as students are tethered to their cell phone. The challenge for many college administrators today is how can they put that cell phone to work for […]