Code Maroon, Texas A&M University’s emergency notification system, is now accepting enrollees in its new system. Texas A&M students, faculty and staff who signed up for Code Maroon before Tuesday, July 21, 2009, must re-enroll in the new system to continue receiving alerts. To sign up, visit http://codemaroon.tamu.edu.

Starting August 31, 2009, emergency alerts will come from AtHoc ISW Alerts, Code Maroon’s new vendor that uses a single integrated system to notify the campus of an emergency.

“Recent tests have demonstrated that text messaging is the fastest way to receive alerts, and we encourage all Texas A&M students and employees to sign up to receive text alerts in the new system,” said Charley Clark, Associate Vice President for University Risk & Compliance. “Our goal is to get as many people as possible signed up in the new Code Maroon before it goes live on August 31.”

With the new system, Texas A&M students, faculty and staff members who have a NetID and password can register one number to receive text message alerts. Alerts will also be sent to all Texas A&M Email (Neo) accounts ending with “@neo.tamu.edu.”

Parents, local residents and friends of Texas A&M can follow “TAMUCodeMaroon” on Twitter or subscribe to Code Maroon’s RSS feed to receive alerts. The new system also sends alerts via campus cable television, KAMU-FM radio and Emergency Alert System radios, and has the ability to send desktop pop-up alerts.