Emergency Notification System

Dear Members of the Saint Joseph's College Community:

Saint Joseph's College has joined 150 other higher education institutions in adopting a state of the art emergency notification system called Connect-ED. Connect-ED is a fully hosted, Web-based system that will enhance emergency preparedness by enabling College administrators to quickly reach all students, faculty and staff with a personalized voicemail, email and text message to provide valuable information and instructions during an emergency situation. For the use of Connect-ED, we are defining an emergency situation as a condition that poses an immediate risk to the health and safety of the campus community or significantly disrupts our programs and activities.

In an emergency situation, authorized college administrators will deliver a message via voice mail directly to on-campus telephones and to a designated primary telephone, such as a personal cell phone. Text messaging also will be an option. Simultaneously, an e-mail would go to the SJC email address.

In mid-September, students, faculty and staff will be asked to review contact information and furnish additional information, such as primary and secondary phone numbers.

After the information is obtained, the Crisis Response Team will test the system to ensure that it will be able to reach as many students, faculty and staff as possible, as quickly as possible, should the need arise.

Drop in training sessions for students, faculty and stay will be in room 206 of Alfond Hall from 7am to 9pm September 19th through September 21st to assist you with updating your emergency notification information.

It is critical that all students, faculty and staff review and/or input emergency notification information through the web link that will be emailed to you. Because of the importance of this, your information must be entered into the web link by September 30, 2007.