What is UNL Alert?
UNL Alert sends emergency messages to devices and addresses you designate: text messages, cell phones, landline phones and email addresses.
Why does UNL Alert exist?
Redundant, overlapping and consistent communication is an important component of any emergency plan. UNL Alert is designed to help facilitate early notification during emergencies. Sending the same messages using multiple modes and methods helps assure that those affected have access to warning messages and alerts to help keep them safe.
When will UNL Alert be activated?
UNL Police will determine when UNL Alert will send emergency notices.
What will happen when UNL Police issue a notice?
UNL Alert will begin sending thousands of messages and phone calls simultaneously to individuals' choosen contact devices.
What should you do when an alert notice arrives?
Take the appropriate actions based on the notice. If it asks you to confirm receipt of the message, please do so. The message will be coming from phone number 472-9111, and it would be useful to enter this phone number into your contacts list if you can.
How Do I Sign Up?
I no longer wish to receive alerts, how do I remove myself?
Login at unlalert.unl.edu and follow the "Remove Me" link in the left menu.
How many contacts has UNL Alert made?
The most recent UNL Alert event was a Active Threat Warning on East Campus issued on February 24, 2011.
UNL Alert made 22,065 contacts.
It reached:
- 10,233 telephone calls
- 7,983 emails
- 3,849 text messages
The alerts also appeared in real-time on UNL websites utilizing the UNL web templates.
In an Emergency
During an emergency situation involving the campus, UNL's homepage may convert to a low bandwidth version, free of the majority of graphics to ease transmission and server load. The homepage as well as this emergency website will be a primary mode of communication, to be continually updated.
During an emergency, our goal is to communicate first with those most immediately impacted; people who need to evacuate or seek medical treatment.
University Communications leads the communications response during and after emergencies, factually assessing each situation, developing the communications response, and assembling a crisis communications team. The goal is to provide accurate and timely information to minimize rumors and restore order and confidence.
During an emergency, the UNL community and general public will receive information through the web and news media as well as by email and phone through UNL Alert.
The UNL Newsroom houses information about current or recent emergencies on campus and updates on the University's emergency management activities.
