Northern Virginia Community College (NOVA) Launches Roam Secure Alert Network for Emergency Notification
Alexandria, VA --[Emergency Notification News]-- October 4, 2007 Roam Secure, Inc. today announced Northern Virginia Community College (NOVA) has purchased and deployed Roam Secure Alert Network (RSAN). College and campus administrators and public safety officials can send targeted alerts via SMS text messages on cell phones and to students, faculty and staff. Students (or their parents) can register for the system, NOVA Alert, at no charge by visiting https://alert.nvcc.edu or by texting “NOVA” to 411911.
NOVA, the second-largest community college in the country is located in the heart of Northern Virginia’s technology corridor just outside Washington, D.C.; with campuses in Alexandria, Annandale, Loudoun, Manassas, Springfield and Woodbridge. With RSAN, the entire student body or those at selected campuses, both on and off campus, can be notified. The system is capable of reaching most text-enabled device including cell phones, pagers, e-mail, and BlackBerry. RSAN also integrates with other communication media that may be deployed such as message boards, sirens, and speakers providing a single using a layered approach to mass notification.
“NOVA has a very mobile student body with many full- and part-time students spread across the greater Washington region on campus, at work, home or on the road. Reaching our students quickly with emergency information is very important and we have taken great strides to keep our students, staff, and faculty informed via a variety of methods and technologies. Our students communicate at home, school and work through e-mail and text alerting on a daily basis. Now we can reach out to them quickly using Roam Secure. The system also integrates with the other alerting systems in the surrounding local jurisdictions via Roam Secure’s emergency information exchange,” said Dr. Steven Sachs, NOVA’s VP for Instructional & Information Technology.
About Northern Virginia Community College
Northern Virginia Community College is the largest institution of higher education in the Commonwealth of Virginia and the second largest community college in the nation. NOVA enrolls more than 60,000 students at its six campuses in Alexandria, Annandale, Loudoun, Manassas, Springfield and Woodbridge, and through the distance learning program at its Extended Learning Institute. For more information about NOVA and its programs or services, call (703) 323-3000 or visit the College’s Web site at www.nvcc.edu.
Source: Vendor Press Release
Northern Virginia Community College deploys Roam Secure Alert Network (RSAN)
