***Any parent/spouse/etc who were registered for the text messaging service prior to October, 2011, must be re-registered by an OSU student/faculty/staff member. ***

Ohio State recognizes the importance of keeping parents/spouses informed during an emergency.

As mentioned above, prior to October, 2011, Ohio State had an "open enrollment" for our text messaging service. This meant that any parent, spouse, etc that wished to register to receive emergency text messages could do so by going to a website and providing a cell number.

To help streamline our process and ensure that our students, faculty and staff members are receiving emergency text messages as quickly as possible, we have instituted a change in our system.

Effective October, 2011, any Ohio State student, faculty or staff member that provides their cell number to the university will automatically be registered for emergency text messages.

Students, faculty and staff also have the ability to register up to 2 additional cell phone numbers to receive text message notifications. These additional phone numbers can belong to parents, spouses, or anyone else they wish to include in the text message notifications.

Text messages will be sent to this group AFTER a message has been sent to students, faculty and staff. Public Safety's goal is to notify the students, faculty and staff on campus as quickly as possible when an emergency occurs. Once this has been accomplished, we will then send a text to parents, spouses and others.

Students, faculty, and staff: register your parent, spouse, etc. here.