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Harvard launched the campus-wide text message alert system following the Virginia Tech shooting last spring and has recently reemphasized its importance in light of the shooting at North Illinois University last month. CORRECTION
...takes less than one minute to register for Harvard’s emergency alert text messaging service, “Message Me,” but almost 40 percent of the University’s student body has yet to sign...
Boston University (BU), which uses a different company’s alert service, boasts a 94 percent enrollment rate because signing up for the service is a mandatory part of the students’ registration process. BU began using the service at its Charles River campus last September—one month after Harvard adopted the program—following the success of the alerts at its medical school...
Wrinn declined to comment about Harvard’s decision to use voluntary enrollment, but when the alert system was first implemented in August, University officials said that publicizing the initiative would be largely left to the discretion of Harvard’s individual schools...
...March 6 story, "60 Percent of Students Enrolled in Emergency Text Message Program," misinterpreted data regarding the level of enrollment at Harvard in the emergency alert text message service. While the story reported that 12,127 students signed up, in fact, the 12,127 number refers to the number of students, faculty, and staff. The assertion that nearly 60 percent of students have signed up is thus incorrect...