{"id":131916,"date":"2026-09-04T08:00:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T12:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/?p=131916"},"modified":"2026-09-04T07:43:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T11:43:14","slug":"did-you-get-the-sept-3-owu-alert-if-not-read-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/did-you-get-the-sept-3-owu-alert-if-not-read-this\/","title":{"rendered":"Did You Get the Sept. 3 OWU ALERT? If Not, Read This!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Sept. 3, Ohio Wesleyan tested its OWU ALERT emergency notification system. All students and employees should have received an email sent to your owu.edu email account and a text message sent to your cell phone of record with the University. (You may have received a voice message, too.) If you have installed the CampusShield app on your phone, you should have received the OWU ALERT in the app, too.<\/p>\n<p>If you didn&#8217;t receive the ALERT, please check your phone&#8217;s spam folders. If messages were discarded, please mark them as &#8220;not spam.&#8221; Text messages may appear to come from 58843 and voice messages from 740-737-8880. Please add this phone number to your contacts as OWU ALERT so you will know it&#8217;s urgent.<\/p>\n<p>To use the free CampusShield app, download it here: (<a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.campus_shield&amp;hl=en_US&amp;gl=US\">Android<\/a>) (<a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/campusshield\/id1019136154\">iOS<\/a>). (Third-party employees without an owu.edu email address will need to install the app using a six-digit CampusShield enrollment code available from their employers.)<\/p>\n<p>If you need to change your cell phone number in your OWU record:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em><strong>Students<\/strong><\/em>, please email cell phone corrections to\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:registrar@owu.edu\">registrar@owu.edu<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Employees<\/strong><\/em>, please log into the ADP Portal and use the \u201cMyself,\u201d \u201cMy Information,\u201d and \u201cProfile\u201d links to update cell phone information.<\/li>\n<li><strong>If you have an owu.edu email issue<\/strong>, please contact the Information Systems Help Desk at <a href=\"mailto:helpdesk@owu.edu\">helpdesk@owu.edu<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Parents or guardians<\/strong> <strong>of students<\/strong> who wish to sign up for OWU ALERT text messages should text\u00a0<strong>OWUalertFamily<\/strong> (not case-sensitive, with no spaces between words) to <strong>58843<\/strong> to receive notifications and STOP to the same number to discontinue receiving them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Spouses or partners<\/strong> <strong>of OWU employees<\/strong> should text <strong>OWUalertPartner<\/strong> (not case-sensitive with no spaces between words) to <strong>58843\u00a0<\/strong>to receive emergency notifications and STOP to the same number to discontinue receiving them.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone is able to view the most recent OWU ALERT notifications online for at least 48 hours at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.owu.edu\/emergency\">www.owu.edu\/emergency<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Read more about the OWU ALERT system and other Public Safety notifications on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.owu.edu\/student-life\/department-of-public-safety\/owu-alert-system\/\">Public Safety section<\/a> of the OWU website. For unanswered questions, please contact Cole Hatcher in Marketing &amp; Communications at <a href=\"mailto:cehatche@owu.edu\">cehatche@owu.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for your time and attention.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Public Safety\/Marketing &amp; Communications.<br \/>\nContact: Public Safety at psafety@owu.edu or Cole Hatcher at <a href=\"mailto:cehatche@owu.edu\">cehatche@owu.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sept. 3, Ohio Wesleyan tested its OWU ALERT emergency notification system. All students and employees should have received an email sent to your owu.edu email account and a text message sent to your cell phone of record with the University. (You may have received a voice message, too.) 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