College students slow to embrace text alerts. Texting to be used in University of Montana alert system
| February 28, 2008 |  View for printing |
The massacre at Virginia Tech last year sent colleges nationwide scrambling to improve how they get alerts to students during crises on campus. One solution: Text messages sent to cellphones.
But while hundreds of campuses have adopted text alerts, most students are not embracing the system — even in an age when they consider their mobile phones indispensable.
By Alan Scher Zagier, Associated Press
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