To: All Faculty & All Academic Professionals & All Civil Service Staff &
           All Undergrad Students & All Grad Students <everybody@illinois.edu> 
    From: "Police Lieutenant Todd Short" <dpscomments@illinois.edu>

Reply-To: dps-mail@illinois.edu
 Subject: MASSMAIL - Campuswide Emergency Alert Test

The new U. of I. emergency Illini Alert system for the Urbana campus will 
be tested at 10 a.m. on Thursday, July 21. The test is to make sure the 
new system gets information to the campus community as quickly as 
possible.

Everyone on the Urbana campus whose email address ends in @illinois.edu 
should receive an email alert during the test. Those who had registered 
any cellphone numbers or non-university email addresses under the 
previous system also should receive an alert during the test.

Those who have not registered to receive cellphone text alerts should not 
register for the service now. After the test results are evaluated, 
information will be sent campuswide so those who have not registered may 
do so. 

The emergency notification system administered by the Division of Public 
Safety sends email and text messages in the event of campus emergencies. 
The system also uses campus websites to display emergency messages as 
needed.

The new system also posts emergency information on Facebook and Twitter. 
The Facebook page for Illini Alert is 
http://www.facebook.com/illinialert. The Twitter account can be monitored 
by following @IlliniAlert.
 
The new system automatically provides a summary indicating whether 
messages were delivered and when, so recipients need not take any action 
as a result of Thursday's test.

Lt. Todd Short
Division of Public Safety
Emergency PlanningThis mailing approved by:
The Office of the Chief of Police

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