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Emergency Notifications: Add or Update Your SUNY NY-Alert Contact Info


MCC uses a variety of methods to alert students, faculty, staff and visitors of emergency situations on campus. Telephones and speakers throughout the MCC Brighton and Damon City campuses provide text and audible messages of emergency situations that require a specific action from the college community (evacuation, shelter-in-place, lockdown, etc.). MCC’s website, e-mail system and voicemail system are also used to provide emergency notifications. Other forms of communication, such as local media, help keep the college community informed of safety-related information in a timely and efficient manner.

If the college closes due to weather conditions or other emergencies, an announcement will be posted on the MCC homepage (www.monroecc.edu) and released to local media.  Please help avoid overloading telephone lines by going online or tuning in to the media.

Another notification method used by MCC is the SUNY NY-ALERT system to send emergency and safety information and protective action messages to students and employees. The SUNY NY-ALERT system is used by authorized campus personnel to send emergency messages, including emergency protective actions, warnings and post-incident information related to life safety issues to the college community. Alert notifications are only permitted for events in the categories identified below or other “life threatening” situations such as bomb threat, fire, hazardous material, utility failure, severe weather, etc. “All Clear” and/or additional follow-up messages pertaining to the end of an event or additional instructions regarding the event are also acceptable.

NOTE TO MCC EMPLOYEES:

Now is the time to add or update your emergency alert contact information.  To do so, sign into the Employee Portal with your Banner ID and password; under the Banner Tab look for the NY-Alert box at the bottom of the screen. If you haven’t already signed up for NY-Alert, please do so today. By clicking on the box you will also be able to check and update your contact information. Any information submitted to the SUNY NY-Alert system at MCC will only be used to subscribe college community members to the SUNY NY-Alert system.

MCC students and employees are allowed to enter up to three telephone numbers, two email addresses, one fax number and four text message numbers. They can be your local, work, home, cell or whatever number you want to enter. The system does NOT detect an answering machine or answering service. Unfortunately there is no standard on how long the system should wait until the phone is answered or how long the pre-set message should be. The feature of “Press any number to receive this message” was incorporated to address this issue. The notification alert message will start immediately after a number has been pressed.

For more information about NY-ALERT and how to update your contact information go to <https://www.monroecc.edu/depts/pstd/nyalert.htm>. 

Bob Bertram & Rosanna Condello
ETS Computing Services & CCR
10/29/2012