Wayne State University ramped up its campus security by deploying a new emergency notification system so faculty, students and staff can receive nearly instantaneous alerts on their mobile devices during a crisis on school grounds. Last spring, the university deployed a new SMS alert system to send out brief messages to the campus in the event of an emergency, like a school shooting or a campus gas leak. The notification technology was integrated on the back end into an existing alert system the university had in place to send out nonemergency updates. The university sends out updates, for example, when grades get posted or when a student gets taken off a class wait list, said Daren Hubbard, the university's senior director of enterprise applications.

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