{"id":1516,"date":"2023-04-05T14:44:04","date_gmt":"2023-04-05T18:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newsforowufamilies\/?p=1516"},"modified":"2023-04-05T14:44:04","modified_gmt":"2023-04-05T18:44:04","slug":"learn-about-owu-alert-campus-shield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newsforowufamilies\/learn-about-owu-alert-campus-shield\/","title":{"rendered":"Learn about OWU Alert & Campus Shield"},"content":{"rendered":"

We expect your student’s safety to be your top priority. At the Department of Public Safety, it is definitely ours; it\u2019s in our name! We want to highlight two important safety features, the OWU Alert<\/b>\u00a0System and our safety app,\u00a0Campus Shield<\/b>.\u00a0Students are automatically enrolled in the\u00a0OWU ALERT<\/b> system, which is a mass notification tool OWU uses in case of an emergency or major impacts on campus operations (like power outages). Your son or daughter can\u00a0enroll your email or phone<\/a>\u00a0to receive notifications.\u00a0\u00a0We debuted a campus safety app this year called\u00a0Campus Shield<\/b>. The app features a virtual escort, known as\u00a0Friend Watch<\/i>, an Emergency Slider to contact our dispatcher, a GPS tracker for our SafeRide program, and more. The\u00a0Friend Watch<\/i> feature allows students to select a trusted contact, like a family member, that the app will notify if the student fails to enter their PIN after a timer expires. If location sharing is turned on, the app will show you the real-time location of their phone.<\/p>\n

Example: A student is walking from a coffee shop to their dorm alone and sets their timer for 15 minutes. They are diabetic and their blood sugar is low, they\u2019ve become disoriented and don\u2019t enter their PIN by 15 minutes. A parent gets a notice\/GPS location for the phone. They call Ohio Wesleyan\u2019s Department of Public Safety at\u00a0740-368-2222<\/b>. We go check in on the student, based on the location provided, and we find the student and get them the medical attention they need.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The app is available at\u00a0Google Play<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0Apple App Store<\/a>\u00a0for student use. To register, students must use their\u00a0name@owu.edu<\/a>\u00a0to be linked to Ohio Wesleyan.\u00a0Stay safe,\u00a0Sean Bolender\u00a0Director of Public Safety<\/p>\n

OWU Sponsoring Organization\/Office:<\/strong>\u00a0Department of Public Safety
\nContact:<\/strong>\u00a0Sean Bolender at\u00a0psafety@owu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We expect your student’s safety to be your top priority. At the Department of Public Safety, it is definitely ours; it\u2019s in our name! We want to highlight two important safety features, the OWU Alert\u00a0System and our safety app,\u00a0Campus Shield.\u00a0Students are automatically enrolled in the\u00a0OWU ALERT system, which is a mass notification tool OWU uses […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2100,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[151,150,152,63],"class_list":["post-1516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-owu-resources","tag-alert","tag-campus-safety","tag-campus-shield","tag-public-safety"],"blocksy_meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newsforowufamilies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newsforowufamilies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newsforowufamilies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newsforowufamilies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2100"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newsforowufamilies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newsforowufamilies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1517,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newsforowufamilies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1516\/revisions\/1517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newsforowufamilies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newsforowufamilies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newsforowufamilies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}