YSU launches campus emergency-alert system

YOUNGSTOWN — Youngstown State University has launched a new campus-wide, text-messaging and e-mail system to help improve communications with the campus community during an emergency.

YSU Alert is the latest in a series of communications tools implemented by the university to provide better and quicker information to students and employees in the event of a campus emergency or crisis.

Students, parents, faculty and staff are encouraged to register for the system at http://alert.ysu.edu. Registration is required to receive emergency messages.

For more on this story, see Wednesday’s Vindicator.