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CSU to use texting to alert students
Charleston Southern University has employed a new alert and notification system in response to the April 16 tragedy at Virginia Tech University. The system, designed by TechRadium and called Immediate Response Information System, alerts the campus of danger by sending messages to cell phones, PDAs, home phones, fax machines and e-mail addresses.
The required system uses both e-mail and one other method to contact students, faculty and families. Data will be e-mailed to TechRadium and, then, populated into an information data base for future emergency communications.
IRIS will also verify notification, allowing school officials to know their message got to the intended recipients.
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