The Urbana campus will test its emergency notification system on Feb. 21 (Tuesday) at 10:00 a.m.

The test of the Illini-Alert system will use all of the communication capabilities of the emergency notification system.

* Email messages will be sent to all active faculty, staff and students with Illinois.edu addresses and to any secondary email addresses that have been registered at http://emergency.illinois.edu.

* Text messages will be sent to those people who have registered their cellphone numbers.

* The emergency Web alert system will trigger a pop-up box on all campus websites.

* A message will appear on the Illini-Alert Facebook account (http://www.facebook.com/illinialert).

* A message will be sent to the Illini-Alert Twitter account (http://twitter.com/illinialert).

The test does not require any response; evaluators will be able to monitor the speed and distribution rates of the messaging.

Please visit http://emergency.illinois.edu to add or update your cell phone number(s) and email address(es).  Please visit  http://cites.illinois.edu/illinialert for additional information and technical support.

Sincerely,

Lt. Todd Short
University of Illinois Police Department Office of Campus Emergency Planning