College Station, TX - [EMERGENCY NOTIFICATION NEWS]-- Sept. 03, 2007 - CODE MAROON, Texas A&M University’s new emergency notification system, is now operational, Interim President Eddie J. Davis announced Monday (Sept. 3) in an electronic memorandum sent to all students, faculty and staff.
“All it (CODE MAROON) needs is you — if you have not already signed up,” Davis said in the campus-wide memo. “Thousands of students, faculty and staff have enrolled, giving us the ability to communicate health and safety-related emergency information quickly via e-mail and phone text messaging. It’s to everyone’s advantage to do so (to sign up). It could literally be a life-saver.”
While the university has long had the ability to contact students, faculty and staff, such as via the campus-wide system used for the Monday message, Davis said the tragedy at Virginia Tech earlier this year underscored the need to have multiple means for making quick contact — ideally, almost instantaneously via email and phone text message.
“Quick contact: That’s the CODE MAROON goal — a goal that can only be met if you and all of your fellow classmates and campus colleagues enroll,” Davis said.
He assured members of the campus community that their privacy will be respected. Also, he said everyone on campus will be informed prior to any testing of the new system.
“CODE MAROON will never be used for any purpose other than delivering critical information such as campus emergencies or weather-related closings,” Davis said. “That is the goal — for all students, faculty, staff and others on campus to feel safe and secure in Aggieland.
“It’s essential for you to take the first step: enroll in CODE MAROON, if you have not already done so, and help us be in the best position to be proactive in notifying you if an emergency should arise.”
He also urged recipients of the Monday memo to “talk to fellow Aggies and colleagues and ask them to show their ‘12th Man Spirit’ by getting involved and enrolling in the program.”
“Aggieland is a great place to be. Let’s all continue to make it a safe place to be,” Davis concluded.
To enroll in CODE MAROON, students, faculty and staff are requested to go to http://codemaroon.tamu.edu. They will need to use their NetID and password as part of the sign-up process. A full set of instructions appears on the first page of the Web site.
Code Maroon is powered by the e2Campus mass notification system. The e2Campus solution allows designated university administrators to send time-sensitive messages to the mobile phones, email, and/or pagers of Code Maroon subscribers — regardless of geographic location.
Source: Texas A&M University
CODE MAROON, Texas A&M's Emergency Notification System, Is Now Operational
