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Community College on Hold with Phone Notification

8/23/2007

For example, a professor could alert students regarding a class cancellation, or RVCC could send a message to faculty regarding an approaching deadline for entering grades. Eventually, the college would like to implement an automated system for sending individual messages in which its Banner student system could automatically send a text message alert to a wait-listed student, for example, when a seat opens in a course.

The Legislative Conundrum
But there are more challenges ahead for the college and its emergency messaging plans. Depending on the direction the state of New Jersey takes next, RVCC may be required to adopt a completely new text and voice emergency system before the fall semester.

Both state and federal initiatives are moving through the legislative process, laws that would make it mandatory for colleges and universities to have some sort of emergency notification system in place. If that happens, the ever-resilient Chulvick said he plans to interface the existing system with whatever state-mandated alert system New Jersey may end up adopting.

For now, Chulvick said he doesn’t see wasted effort in creating the text-messaging system with SunGard HE, although he said he would have preferred to see the state work with carriers to lift the cell phone volume cap. As it is, he prepares himself to adopt (probably) a state-mandated emergency notification system before the fall semester.

“I think we’ll certainly be able to make use of [what we’ve built.] And hopefully, we’ll never have to make use of the other.”

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