In light of recent events at Northern Illinois University, we want to remind our campus community about the importance of providing and/or updating your emergency contact information.
Having this information allows the university to use PIER -- the Public Information and Emergency Response system -- to alert you as rapidly as possible during crisis situations.
While PIER uses your UH e-mail account and voices messages on conventional phones to do that, we also have the capability of sending text messages, which is a particularly effective method for immediate communication. However, sending text messages requires that the university have your cell phone number in our emergency database. This is not information that is routinely acquired from students, faculty and staff. So you must provide it. Adding that information to your Emergency Notification Personal Contact Information profile - and making sure the other data is accurate - will allow the university to provide you with vital information in a timely and reliable manner during emergencies.
We hope you recognize the need to take these important steps.
Students can find instructions for updating their contact information at:
http://piersystem.com/go/doc/1093/155709/
Faculty and staff can find instructions at:
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