Morehead State
Eagle Alerts (Emergency Alerts)
Morehead State University's Eagle Alerts page describes Omnilert-powered text and email emergency notifications for safety, weather, and other emergencies, with automatic employee/student email and optional SMS signup.
Read the official policyInstitution
Morehead State University
Public Masters · KY
~8,500 studentsEagle Alerts
In the policy’s own words
What the policy says
Omnilert Eagle Alerts definitionverbatim
Morehead State University uses Omnilert to notify the campus community of safety, weather and other emergencies by text message and email. Alerts are emailed to all MSU employees and students and posted on the MSU website and social media accounts.View source
SMS keyword signupverbatim
You may also register by texting EAGLEALERT (all one word, no space and no "s") to 79516. This will sign you up for all alerts.View source
STOP opt-outverbatim
If you need to change your number or alert subscriptions, you may do so through Omnilert account management. To stop receiving texts, text STOP to 79516.View source
At a glance
How this policy works
- When it activates
- Safety, weather, and other emergencies requiring campus community notification.
- Who decides
- University emergency operations as presented on the Eagle Alerts page; exclusive send authority is not named.
- Timeliness standard
- Not stated as a numeric without-delay standard on the Eagle Alerts overview page.
- Emergency notification vs. timely warning
- Eagle Alerts is the operational multi-channel emergency notification system supporting campus safety communications.
- Testing cadence
- Not confirmed verbatim on the Eagle Alerts page reviewed.
- Scope & limits
- Email is automatic for employees and students; SMS requires Omnilert registration or keyword signup; message and data rates may apply.
ChannelsSmsEmailWebsiteFacebookTwitter XPush Notification
Analysis
Reading the policy
Morehead State University is a public master's university in Kentucky. Its Eagle Alerts page is institution-specific: Omnilert notifies the campus of safety, weather, and other emergencies by text and email; alerts are emailed to all MSU employees and students and posted on the website and social media; SMS signup is via Omnilert online or texting EAGLEALERT to 79516; STOP to 79516 opts out of texts; LiveSafe app is offered as a two-way safety tool. This record documents the system overview rather than a full Clery ASR rewrite.
Policy, meet practice
When this system actually fired
2 documented times Morehead State’s alert system was used, from the case archive.
Provenance
Sources
- Official
Tags
public-masterskentuckyemergency-notificationwider-reach
Added 2026-07-26Updated 2026-07-26Via ingestion