To: All Faculty & All Academic Professionals & All Civil Service Staff &
           All Undergrad Students & All Grad Students <everybody@illinois.edu> 
    From: "Chancellor Richard Herman" <chancellor@uiuc.edu>

Reply-To: chancellor@uiuc.edu
 Subject: Please Review Emergency Text Messaging Service


In the wake of the tragedy at Northern Illinois University, it is important
for all members of our University community to review the Emergency
Messaging System. This system is currently in place, fully operational, and
is a way to reach you in the event of a campus emergency. 

The campus already has several ways to reach you, including mass mail, the
campus homepage, a telephone tree, local media, recorded messages at
265-UIPD, weather sirens, and loudspeakers in police cars.

Emergency Messaging provides the campus another important method through
which to contact you in real time. If you have not yet registered, please
do so immediately. The process only takes a few minutes.

To register:

-Go to: emergency.illinois.edu (NO http://www) -Log-in using Bluestem.

-Choose the text message box.

-Enter your cell phone number with area code and without dashes.

-Click on "text message formats" and look at the pull-down menu.

-Choose the appropriate address for your cell phone provider (e.g.,
5553335555@txt.att.net).

-Insert that address after your phone number.

-If you have a second cell phone number, enter it (with the appropriate
cell provider information) on the "alternate text message" line.

-If you use a non-university email provider, please also enter that
information on the "alternate email" line.

-Click on "save" and exit the system.

In the event of an emergency, you will receive messages at each of the
numbers/emails you have provided to campus. When that happens, the message
will come from emergency@uiuc.edu and the subject line should be:
EMERGENCY! After reading the message, please share the information in it
with those around you.

If you encounter difficulty when registering, please contact the CITES Help
Desk at: 244-7000 or consult@uiuc.edu.

We have already successfully tested the system and will do so periodically. 

Sincerely,
Richard Herman
Chancellor

This mailing approved by:
The Office of the Chancellor

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