With the start of the new academic year, Ithaca College encourages new and returning students, faculty, and staff to sign up for the Emergency Notification System (ENS), which uses voice, e-mail, and text messaging to provide time-sensitive information and details on appropriate responses during critical situations.
To sign up to receive emergency alerts using all three methods, visit www.ithaca.edu/emergencynotification and log into the system using your Ithaca College e-mail username and password. Those who have previously signed up for the ENS are reminded to update any changes to their phone number or e-mail address. It takes one full day for the system to be updated with added/revised contact information.
A test of the ENS will take place during the noon hour on Tuesday, September 9. It will include a test of the new outdoor public address warning system, which features a siren tone and a loudspeaker message
By default, messages sent through the ENS will go to all active Ithaca College student, faculty, and staff e-mail accounts and to faculty and staff office telephones that are listed in the campus directory. The ENS website provides the option of adding other contact methods, including a personal e-mail address you use frequently (Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo, e.g.), a cell phone number representing your text messaging device, and other telephone numbers (parent(s), spouse, home, other cell phone, e.g.) at which you would like to receive the voice message.
Faculty and staff members who do not currently have the number for the telephone at their desk listed in the campus phone directory should consider adding that as one of their optional phone numbers. Please be aware that, because of the limited number of campus telephone lines, the test message will not be received by all office phones at the same time.
The Emergency Notification System will only be used in situations in which it is vital to give immediate notification and instructions to the campus community, and the contact information provided will be kept confidential and not used for any other purpose.
More information on the ENS can be found on the "Frequently Asked Questions" (FAQ) page:
https://www.ithaca.edu/emergencynotification/faqs.php
https://www.ithaca.edu/intercom/article.php/20080902163729918