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New emergency notification system, K-State Alerts, to be tested November 19

K-State Alerts, the system previously known as the Emergency Text Messaging System, will be tested starting at about 10 a.m. Wednesday, November 19, to ensure the service is functioning properly.

Feedback is needed from all K-Staters who enabled this service, since K-State cannot guarantee that alerts will be received, or how quickly they will be received. An e-mail will be sent immediately after the test to gather this information. K-State Alerts users who do not receive the test alert should contact the IT Help Desk at helpdesk@k-state.edu or 785-532-7722.

K-State Alerts includes new features to make the system more accessible and user friendly. All current K-Staters with an active eID are eligible to sign up through ePrfolie at http://eid.k-state.edu.

With K-State Alerts, you can:

  1. Receive automated phone calls to any phone number, such as your home, office or cell phone
  2. Receive text messages to supported cell phone carriers
  3. Add up to three phone numbers per eID
  4. Choose to receive alerts specific to your campus – Manhattan, Salina or both

Being able to send alerts – voice, text or both – to as many as three phone numbers means that students can also have the messages sent to their parents, if desired.

K-State Alerts will be used to inform recipients when a dangerous condition exists on campus, when a decision to close the campus has been made, or when a decision to reopen the campus following a forced closure has been made.

K-State Alerts is just one method of the university-wide emergency communications effort. Other channels of communication include e-mails, postings to the K-State website and a reverse 911 system. For more information about the K-State emergency notification systems, visit http://www.k-state.edu/safety/EmergencyInfo1.htm



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