Buies Creek, N.C.—In order to maximize the safety of students, faculty, staff and visitors to Campbell University, the university has installed a new emergency mass notification system at no additional cost to subscribers. The e2Campus system is used in over 500 schools across the nation to convey time sensitive messages to the campus populations wherever they are located via cell phone, website, BlackBerry, pagers and other electronic means
Dr. Dennis Bazemore, vice president for Student Life, said the system is one of the most efficient and fastest methods of mass notification available.
“We decided last spring, after studying the whole aspect of mass notification that we would have the e2Campus system available to our students at the beginning of the academic year 2008-2009,” said Bazemore. “This is an opportunity for us to enhance our critical incident plan and consolidate messages concerning weather or other emergency information to the entire campus.”
The e2Campus system is a web-based service that does not require additional hardware, software or phone lines and is completely self-administered by the subscriber. It is a centralized interface that simultaneously broadcasts alerts according to the needs of the recipient through outdoor loudspeakers, PA systems, fire alarm systems, digital display boards, phones and other means.
In addition to cell phones, pagers and BlackBerry devices, emergency messages to the Campbell campus will also be displayed on the school’s closed circuit television station, Channel 18, and the digital display board planned for the new John W. Pope Jr. Convocation Center which will be dedicated in October.
Students, faculty and staff of the university may sign up for e2Campus service on the Campbell Web site at www.campbell.edu.