Ithaca College

New and returning faculty, staff, and students are strongly encouraged to sign up for Ithaca College’s Emergency Notification System (ENS) prior to the test of the system that will take place during the noon hour on Thursday, September 9.

The ENS uses voice, e-mail, and text messaging to provide time-sensitive information and details on appropriate responses during critical situations. It is important to have more than one way to receive alerts in order to ensure access to these notices.

In order to receive alerts using all three methods, members of the campus community must go to www.ithaca.edu/emergencynotification and log into the system using their Ithaca College Netpass username and password. Those who have previously signed up for the ENS should update any changes to their contact information. It takes one full day for additions/revisions to contact information to take effect.

Also tested on Thursday will be the Outdoor Warning System, which features a siren tone and a loudspeaker message.

By default, ENS messages go to all active Ithaca College e-mail accounts and to faculty and staff office telephones that are listed in the campus directory. The ENS website gives the option of adding other contact methods, including a personal e-mail address (such as Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo), a cell phone number representing your text messaging device, and other telephone numbers (e.g. parents, spouse, partner, home, other cell phone) 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.