Students demand University implements emergency text service

I caught this one on the wires today — I’m not surprised to read that students want an emergency text service introduced for their college. With today’s communications capabilities, there’s no reason why Universities shouldn’t implement this kind of service. The cost is negligible vs the benefit / peace of mind value.

Link: KKCO – HomePage

Virginia Tech underwent tragedy last April with the massacre of more than thirty students, and just this week a student was stabbed in the throat at the University of Colorado Boulder. Now students at Mesa State say they want to be informed right away if an emergency like this were to hit home.

This is bread and butter for emergency broadcast services like omnilert.com.