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Utilizing the WARN for Schools System, Superintendent sends a message to parents showing that the county school board is taking threat of staph infection seriously. On Tuesday evening, October 23rd, 2007. Twenty four thousand eight hundred and fifty six (more…)

The University of Kentucky (Lexington, KY) has chosen W.A.R.N. to provide for its integrated campus emergency notifications. Text-messaging students about campus issues is just one component of the emergency notification system that UK has activated. The system is the most recent decision in steps taken by the University to improve safety and emergency response at UK. “When Virginia Tech happened, I was bombarded with phone calls from companies,” said Christy Giles, the director of UK’s Office of Emergency Management. “We narrowed it down to three companies, and one just really stood out to us.”

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The University of California - Davis has selected W.A.R.N. for its campus emergency notification needs after a comprehensive review which started with over a dozen providers. (more…)

Thursday, 10/04/07

Some students say they see little need to sign up

By COLBY SLEDGE
Staff Writer

Before University of Memphis junior Taylor Bradford was found shot to death outside a dorm Sunday, fewer than 4,700 people on the 20,000-student campus had signed up for the school’s emergency text message alert system. (more…)

This is a message from the Department of Homeland Security/Emergency Management Institute/Higher Education Project.

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