{
  "id": "2025-03-14-tufts-university-tuftsalert-test",
  "slug": "tufts-university-tuftsalert-test-2025-03-14",
  "institution": {
    "name": "Tufts University",
    "shortName": "Tufts",
    "state": "MA",
    "type": "private-r1",
    "alertSystemName": "TuftsAlert",
    "enrollment": 12000
  },
  "incident": {
    "date": "2025-03-14",
    "type": "test",
    "cleryCategory": "emergency-notification",
    "resolution": "resolved",
    "headline": "TuftsAlert Test March 14",
    "headlinePublic": "TuftsAlert Test March 14",
    "summary": "Tufts University [published a TuftsAlert system test notice](https://emergency.tufts.edu/news-events/news/tuftsalert-test-march-14) on or about 2025-03-14. Full text is preserved from the official emergency management site.",
    "outcome": "System test; no emergency.",
    "casualties": {
      "killed": 0,
      "injured": 0
    }
  },
  "alerts": [
    {
      "sequence": 1,
      "type": "initial",
      "channel": "multi-channel",
      "timestampApprox": "Published on or about 2025-03-14",
      "verbatimText": "TuftsAlert Test March 14\n\nOn Friday, March 14, 2025, there will be a test of the TuftsAlert system.\n\nTuftsAlert is Tufts University's emergency notification system. In the event of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of the Tufts community, we will use TuftsAlert to send text, voice, email, and desktop alerts with information that may be critical to your safety.\n\nIt is essential that you keep your contact information up to date in the TuftsAlert system. Please take a minute now to visit https://emergency.tufts.edu/alert-systems/tuftsalert and confirm your contact information in TuftsAlert. The information that you provide will remain confidential and will be used only to contact you during an emergency.\n\nTuftsAlert is an opt-out system. If you do not wish to receive emergency text messages from TuftsAlert, please text STOP to 67283 and your cell phone number will be removed from the system.\n\nDesktop Alerting\nRunning on your Mac or Windows computer, Alertus Desktop software can display a TuftsAlert message on your computer screen and may be faster than text messaging, email, or telephone. This is already installed on all university-owned computers. Visit https://emergency.tufts.edu/alert-systems/desktop-alerting for more information and to download Alertus Desktop to your personally owned computer.\n\nOptional Alerts\nAn optional service allows you to receive a text notification in the event of a weather-",
      "isVerbatimConfirmed": true,
      "sourceUrl": "https://emergency.tufts.edu/news-events/news/tuftsalert-test-march-14",
      "sourceDescription": "TuftsAlert test notice",
      "annotations": [
        "Transcribed from official emergency.tufts.edu test notice page.",
        "Confirmed-verbatim recovery from live institutional source."
      ],
      "characterCount": 1489,
      "confidence": "high"
    }
  ],
  "context": "Tufts Office of Emergency Management TuftsAlert test notices.",
  "keyFindings": [
    "Official emergency management page preserves complete system test notice text."
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "type": "official-archive",
      "title": "TuftsAlert Test March 14",
      "url": "https://emergency.tufts.edu/news-events/news/tuftsalert-test-march-14",
      "accessDate": "2026-07-25"
    }
  ],
  "confidence": "high",
  "tags": [
    "tufts",
    "tuftsalert",
    "test"
  ],
  "dateAdded": "2026-07-25",
  "lastUpdated": "2026-07-25",
  "addedBy": "ingestion"
}