What’s next for emergency notification? Upgrades in the technology of textmessaging appear likely. New services also are popping up. One, offered by MIR3, includes parents on emergency notification lists. College administrators will be busy, too, since many signed up for only a year of service and chose only one or two methods of notification when several are needed.
“There will be a lot of contract renegotiation this year,” saysDixon.
Prior to the Feb. 14 slayings, NIU had not bought any additional IT security systems, says Fatz. “We don’t have any immediate plans to do any purchases now, but this obviously escalates the need for more review,” he says. As the incident at NIU has shown, the danger continues to be real.
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