We’re very happy to welcome North Carolina State University to the clearTXT family. Located just a few miles from our new clearTXT offices, NC State is a national leader in education and sports. NCSU is the largest four-year institution in North Carolina, with more than 31,000 students.
Welcome aboard wolfpack!
It’s our pleasure to welcome North Iowa Area Community College to the clearTXT family. Next year will make the “90th anniversary of the College, which began in 1918 as Mason City Junior College (the first public two-year college in Iowa)”
Welcome aboard NIACC!
It’s our pleasure to welcome Sussex County Community College to clearTXT. Located in Newton, NJ, SCCC “is committed to providing a supportive, caring environment that promotes academic excellence, economic development, attainment of career and educational goals, and personal and cultural enrichment for its diverse constituencies.”
With a mission statement like that, it should be easy to see why we’re proud to have been selected to provide their multi-channel communication and alerts. Welcome aboard!
It’s our pleasure to welcome Canisius College to clearTXT. Canisius is a premier private university, located in upstate New York, and online at canisius.edu. The school will be using clearTXT to send athletic information, sports updates, and other information about the Griffins.
Once again, welcome aboard!
Maricopa Community College District Selects clearTXT Ubiquity
Ubiquity Provides a Cutting-Edge Means of Communication with Students, Faculty, and Staff
Cary, NC, August 22, 2007 – The Maricopa Community Colleges have stepped to the cutting-edge of communication with their students, faculty and staff through an agreement with clearTXT. clearTXT’s Ubiquity, the company’s flagship information delivery and alerts platform designed specifically for colleges and universities, allows the colleges to connect with students via cellular text messages in the event of campus emergencies or need for immediate communication.
As one of the largest higher education systems in the world and the largest provider of health care workers and job training in Arizona, the Maricopa Community College system is comprised of 10 colleges, 2 skill centers, and numerous education centers dedicated to educational excellence. More than 200,000 students attend the Maricopa Community Colleges each year while nearly 4,500 full-time and more than 9,000 part-time faculty and staff are employed.
Increasing student communication opportunities is the primary reason Maricopa Community Colleges looked into mobile messaging to reach their students. Nearly all of the system’s students commute to the various campuses and centers. In addition, many students in the system enroll in multiple colleges during the same semester or academic year. This multi-institutional attendance pattern, common among students attending community colleges, called for a single system-wide solution.
The agreement between the Maricopa Community Colleges and clearTXT came after the successful introduction of the service at Estrella Mountain Community College (EMCC). As a commuter community college whose students manage complex daily schedules, EMCC felt clearTXT would be essential in helping meet one of its primary goals – increasing academic engagement and faculty-student communication. A secondary, but critical, consideration was the ability to issue campus-wide emergency alerts.
“For a number of years our college faced the challenge of how to best reach our students with the most up-to-date campus, classroom, and emergency information,” said Roger Yohe, director, center for teaching and learning, EMCC. “The use of e-mail as a primary means of direct communication has been deemphasized as most all of our students now own cell phones and use text messaging regularly.”
All of the college’s approximate 5,000 students and 800 full- and part-time faculty and staff have opt-in access to clearTXT, granting permission to the college to text students, faculty, and staff on their cell phones in the event of a need for immediate communication. Students may opt-in via Blackboard, a web-based software system used by the district for flexible teaching and learning.
After initially implementing the system in January of this year, the college recognized that as with most innovative technologies, early adopters on campus were the first ones to actually use clearTXT. In order to further increase user adoption and effectiveness, the campus offers regular faculty workshops on how to use clearTXT as a student communication tool.
The ability to integrate with any legacy e-learning system has proven to be a key factor in promoting academic engagement and faculty-student communication. The clearTXT Building Block provides simple integration, built-in authentication, and automatic course messaging through Maricopa’s Blackboard system.
“Our honors program coordinator reports a greater connection with her students through their use of clearTXT,” said Yohe. “We have a number of enrichment programs for our Honors students and the coordinator finds a text message is much more effective than an e-mail reminder.”
The college also experienced success with the system’s emergency messaging capabilities. The day after the Virginia Tech tragedy, Estrella Mountain received an on-campus threat. As an integrated part of the college’s emergency communication plan, an evacuation message was immediately sent to students, informing them that the campus would be closed until further notice. Students were directed to the college home page for additional information.
“While we hope to never execute this particular type of message again, we were very happy with the way in which clearTXT helped us deliver the message to our campus community in a very efficient and timely manner,” said Yohe.
About clearTXT
Founded in 2003, clearTXT is a leading provider of information delivery and alerts platforms for colleges and universities. clearTXT was created by an academic solely to provide communication solutions to the academic community. Its Ubiquity product enables a multi-channel approach for campus communications by sending messages via email, text message, ticker desktop window, instant message and pop-up desktop alert (both PC and Mac). clearTXT currently provides distributed information delivery systems to dozens of universities, including the University of Cincinnati, Louisiana State University (LSU), Seton Hall and the University of Memphis. For more information, visit www.cleartxt.com or call 1-866-472-1901 (toll free).
About Estrella Mountain Community College
Estrella Mountain Community College is located on Thomas and Dysart Roads in Avondale and offers transfer-ready academic courses and job-specific occupational training to more than 13,000 students annually. Estrella Mountain is part of the Maricopa County Community College District, one of the largest community college districts in the nation. For more information, visit http://www.estrellamountain.edu or http://www.maricopa.edu.
About the Maricopa Community Colleges
The Maricopa County Community College District is one of the largest community college districts in the nation. It includes 10 colleges - Chandler-Gilbert Community College, Estrella Mountain Community College, GateWay Community College, Glendale Community College, Mesa Community College, Paradise Valley Community College, Phoenix College, Rio Salado College, Scottsdale Community College and South Mountain Community College. The District also includes the Maricopa Skill Center, SouthWest Skill Center, several satellite campuses and business/industry, technical and customized training institutes and serves more than a quarter million students annually. For more information: 480-731-8333, 480-731-8000 or www.maricopa.edu. District News: www.maricopa.edu/press.
clearTXT is proud to welcome its newest client, The University of San Diego. Located on 180 acres overlooking the city of San Diego, Mission Bay and the Pacific Ocean, The University of San Diego has more than 7,000 students enrolled.
The university has seen incredible growth over the last 50 years, growing from just 50 students and a small number of teachers, to being nationally recognized for its academics. Plus, USD has a great athletic program that includes basketball, baseball, soccer, cross country, rowing, golf, and much more. And soon, students will be able to get sports scores and other information delivered right to their mobile phones!
LSU Implements clearTXT Ubiquity Information Delivery Platform for Campus-Wide Emergency Communications
Solution Capable of Alerting All 35,000 LSU Students, Faculty, and Staff Within Minutes of Emergency Situations
Cary, NC, June 06, 2007 – clearTXT, a leading provider of information delivery platforms for colleges and universities, today announced that Louisiana State University (LSU) has implemented the company’s Ubiquity product to manage its campus-wide public safety-related communications. As the framework for the university’s Emergency Text Messaging System, Ubiquity will allow LSU to notify up to 35,000 students, faculty, and staff of an emergency situation.
“Our university is committed to a continuous effort to enhance campus safety,” said LSU Chancellor Sean O’Keefe. “The ability to easily manage the delivery of emergency notifications serves as another method of improving our system for communicating with the LSU family.”
The LSU Emergency Text Messaging System is a service that allows anyone in the LSU community, including the LSU AgCenter and Paul M. Herbert Law Center, to receive alerts, news, or other emergency information via text message, desktop alert, and email. LSU students, faculty, and staff members can voluntarily sign-up for the new service by providing their cell phone information through their university PAWS account.
When considering the type of communication system to implement, it was important that the university find an easy-to-use, easy-to-access, and easy-to-manage message delivery system. As Ubiquity is managed through an intuitive user interface via a web browser, users and/or administrators are not required to download or install additional mobile software applications. In addition, there are no subscription fees; however, users are responsible for regular text messaging rates through their cellular service providers.
“Working with a fully hosted solution that provides remote web access from any location has kept our associated operational costs down to a minimum,” said Ricky Adams, LSU chief of police and directory of emergency operations. “We have implemented the LSU Emergency Text Messaging System as part of our university’s crisis communication plan without requiring additional personnel or IT infrastructure changes - a distinct advantage to our university as we seek ways in which to maximize our campus-wide budget.”
Ubiquity is the only information delivery platform created by an academic specifically for the academic community. Ubiquity allows administrators to take a multi-channel communication approach, allowing for users to receive information via different devices across different channels (i.e., mobile phone, email, desktop ticker window, instant message, and pop-up desktop alert.) In addition, universities such as LSU can receive critical third-party information via RSS feeds such as National Weather Service and Department of Homeland Security alerts.
About clearTXT
Founded in 2003, clearTXT is a leading provider of information delivery platforms for colleges and universities. clearTXT was created by an academic solely to provide communication solutions to the academic community. Its Ubiquity product enables a multi-channel approach for campus communications by sending messages via email, text message, ticker desktop window, instant message and pop-up desktop alert (both PC and Mac). clearTXT currently provides over 70 educational organizations with distributed information delivery systems, including the University of Cincinnati, Seton Hall and the University of Memphis. For more information, visit www.cleartxt.com or call 1-866-472-1901 (toll free).
LSU, the flagship institution of the state of Louisiana, selected clearTXT for its information delivery and alert system. clearTXT will deliver emergency alerts, relevant news, and updates to the mobile phones, email addresses, and desktops of the more than 30,000 students, 1,200 faculty members, and 3,000 staff members at LSU.
In addition to being an athletic powerhouse, LSU is also a recognized leader in technology, education, and the use of technology in academia. As such, clearTXT is incredibly proud to be their choice for mobile messaging, information delivery, and alerts. Welcome aboard LSU.
We’d like to welcome Washington University in St. Louis to the clearTXT family. The University selected clearTXT for its information delivery and mobile messaging needs. In case you’re not familiar with this highly respected school, here’s a little information from their website…
“The University is counted among the world’s leaders in teaching and research, and draws students and faculty to St. Louis from all 50 states and more than 120 nations. The University is highly regarded for its commitment to excellence in learning. Its programs, administration, facilities, resources, and activities combine to further its mission of teaching, research, and service to society.”
We look forward to working with Bill Orrick and the other great folks at Washington University in St. Louis.
We’d like to welcome Wagner College to clearTXT. We’re very excited to work with great people at Wagner and proud that they selected us.
Located atop Grymes Hill in New York City’s Borough of Staten Island, Wagner College is a competitive, four-year private college founded in 1883. Wagner College has developed a curriculum that unites deep learning and practical application.
Welcome aboard Wagner!
