[Em-announcements] UCR's Emergency Notification System and Campus Safety Measures

[Veronica Ruiz]

Dear Enrollment Management Staff,

The Assistant Vice Chancellor Enrollment 
Management Office would like to take this 
opportunity to strongly encourage you to register 
for the UCR Campus Emergency Notification System. 
Please take a few minutes to register at 
<http://emergencyregistration.ucr.edu/>http://emergencyregistration.ucr.edu/ 
. Your participation can make a hug difference in 
the success of this program and our ability to 
respond in the event of an emergency.

Our office will also be reviewing departmental 
emergency plans with safety coordinators in each 
department to ensure that we are prepared to respond to any emergency.

Please feel free to contact me with any questions 
or concerns at your earliest convenience at 
951-827-4020 or via e-mail at veronica.ruiz at ucr.edu.

Thank You,

Veronica Ruiz
Management Services Officer
AVC Enrollment Management
University of California Riverside
2121 Hinderaker Hall
Riverside, CA 92521
951-827-4020
951-827-2589 Fax

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>  Safety Measures
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>Dear Faculty and Staff:
>
>As chancellor, one of my foremost 
>responsibilities is the safety of our campus.  I 
>am therefore writing to apprise you of steps we 
>are taking to implement the new emergency 
>notification system.  This service enables rapid 
>emergency communications to the entire campus 
>community via a variety of technologies, 
>including text messaging, e-mail, and voice 
>mail.  For the system to be effective the active 
>participation of every member of our UCR community is essential.
>
>We have previously encouraged you to sign up by 
>providing your personal communication 
>information.  While the voluntary response has 
>been encouraging, it has fallen far short of the 
>level required to achieve the level of safety we 
>all want.  If you followed the news of the 
>recent tragedy at <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 
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>/>Northern Illinois University, you know that 
>that campus’ emergency notification system 
>functioned to provide the entire campus 
>community with updates every 15 minutes.  UCR, 
>too, has that capacity for notification, but it 
>will work only if all members of our campus community have joined the system.
>
>I have therefore asked our emergency planners to 
>develop an approach that will assure that every 
>student, staff, and faculty member is offered a 
>choice to either “opt in” or “opt out” 
>of this service.  This means that you simply 
>visit the following web site, log in, and make a 
>decision about participating in UCR’s 
>emergency notification system.  I encourage you to take a moment and do so now:
>
><http://emergencyregistration.ucr.edu/>http://emergencyregistration.ucr.edu/
>
>On May 5th of this year, faculty and staff who 
>have not made an opt-in or opt-out decision will 
>be required to do so when logging into various 
>campus on-line business systems.  If you have 
>already elected an option, you will be allowed 
>to proceed with your transaction.  Otherwise, 
>you will be prompted to make a choice.  We are 
>mindful that not all of you have regular need 
>for access to our on line systems, so special 
>provisions will be put in place to assure that 
>everyone is offered the same opportunity. 
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>Over the course of the coming months, we will be 
>testing the system to ensure that it works.  We 
>will do this incrementally, with adequate notice 
>to assure that we do not inadvertently cause 
>alarm. More details of that testing will be provided in the near future.
>
>No system of communication is guaranteed to 
>reach every individual under every set of 
>circumstances, so we will continue to assess our 
>communication strategies over time and augment 
>our capabilities as we believe it would benefit 
>the campus.  In addition, we continue to 
>implement other safety measures, as described in the attachment.
>
>I thank you for taking a moment to sign up for 
>the best system currently at our disposal.
>
>Sincerely,
>
>
>
>Robert D. Grey
>
>Acting Chancellor
>
>Attachment:  Measures to Assure Campus Safety/Security
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