Current CU Boulder students, employees added to countywide alerts system - University of Colorado Boulder

Do you person a Boulder address? The assemblage volition soon opt each existent students and employees with Boulder, Colorado, residential addresses into Everbridge, the exigency alert messaging strategy utilized by Boulder Police, Boulder County Sheriff’s Department and Longmont Department of Public Safety.

Everbridge is utilized to nonstop advisories, warnings and orders to instrumentality enactment during life-threatening situations specified arsenic constabulary activity, fires, floods and different earthy disasters successful the metropolis of Boulder and unincorporated Boulder county. The strategy besides shares captious upwind alerts and alerts subscribers of missing and endangered persons.

“I judge this solution is the champion archetypal measurement to creating a safer, much informed, community,” said Lucie Nguyen, pupil assemblage president. “By uploading CU affiliates’ interaction accusation to Everbridge, students and others volition beryllium much alert of emergencies that are not nether CUPD’s jurisdiction.”

Normally a aforesaid opt-in system, CU Boulder volition automatically opt-in existent student, faculty and staff, adding accusation including compartment telephone numbers, section addresses and colorado.edu email addresses for those not already successful Everbridge. An opt-out enactment volition beryllium provided successful the archetypal notification.

Once accusation is uploaded, students and employees volition person an email and/or substance notification to make an relationship and acceptable a password. Campus assemblage members tin take to adhd further information, specified arsenic their enactment address, loved ones’ enactment and schoolhouse addresses and more. Students and employees are encouraged to make a illustration for each idiosyncratic successful the household that has a mobile device.

If they wish, users tin opt retired of the strategy erstwhile they are notified that the assemblage has uploaded their information, but removing interaction accusation oregon deleting an Everbridge relationship means users volition not beryllium capable to person exigency notifications for incidents taking spot successful the metropolis oregon unincorporated county. University stakeholders tin besides opt retired aft receiving Everbridge alerts, erstwhile they postgraduate oregon erstwhile they cease employment with the university.

Users tin take however to person Everbridge alerts, including dependable calls, substance messages, TTY/TDD oregon emailed alerts.  

“This is simply a continued effort to amended the information of our field affiliates successful and astir the CU Boulder campus,” said Garry DeJong, manager of CU Boulder’s Events and Emergency Management Division.

Everbridge alerts are sent based connected existent section addresses. Students and employees are powerfully encouraged to guarantee this accusation is close successful Buff Portal and MyCUInfo, earlier the planned mid- to late-November upload. University stakeholders volition past beryllium liable for keeping their accusation up-to-date successful Everbridge.

Some assemblage affiliates who unrecorded successful Boulder region whitethorn already beryllium acquainted with Everbridge. Those with landline phones from Century Link oregon VOIP telephone from Xfinity/Comcast are automatically successful the system. 

Everbridge is abstracted from the university’s exigency notification system, CU Boulder alerts. Anyone with a colorado.edu email automatically receives exigency alerts via assemblage email. To guarantee receipt of substance alerts, students are reminded to add oregon update their mobile telephone numbers successful Buff Portal. Employees are encouraged to do the aforesaid successful MyCUInfo.

All students, faculty, staff, assemblage members, parents and different household members are encouraged to travel CU Boulder Alerts connected Twitter and enable propulsion notifications to person exigency messages for all three levels of alerts the assemblage sends.