the Department of Public Safety
at Colorado State University
Emergency Communication Systems
Emergency Text Alert System
Updated August 2010
The Emergency Text Alert System is used to send alerts in the event of an emergency on the Fort Collins campus. The system is only used during a safety emergency or unexpected closing of the campus, such as a snow day.
Subscribing
Subscription is processed through RAMweb and requires a campus eID.
Off-campus emergency alerts
Larimer Emergency Telephone Authority allows you to receive alerts about off-campus emergencies and other important community news via your home, cell, or business phone, email, text messages, hearing impaired receiving devices, and more.
The phone numbers of Sprint cell phones, the university's contracted provider, supplied to faculty and staff for work purposes have been automatically entered into the system. Faculty and staff with phones through other providers or who want to register a personal phone must sign up through the university's registration system.
Updating / Unsubscribing
Participants are responsible for keeping information up to date.
The system and the university do not keep track of subscribers' physical locations. Faculty on sabbatical, students who are away on semester abroad, for a holiday or spring break, or any other subscriber who is out of the area, will continue receiving RAVE alerts until they unsubscribe via RAMWeb.
About the system
Colorado State University utilizes Rave Mobile Safety's software for the Emergency Text Alert System. Rave is a leading provider of software solutions for individual, group and public safety.
