UNCW Alert Emergency Communication System

UNCW Alert includes multiple communication tools that the university may deploy during an emergency. Pay attention to the university homepage, emails, text messages, phone calls and other communications from the university.

How You Can Get the Message

Students, Faculty and Staff

• Mass email message to UNCW email address
• Mass text message to personal cell phone (Students must opt OUT, Faculty/Staff must opt IN via SeaPort) 
• Mass voice message to personal cell phone (Students must opt OUT, Faculty/Staff must opt IN via SeaPort)
• Cable interruption message on all campus channels
• Campus Channel 77 message

Campus, Parents and Community

• Five outdoor warning sirens (mechanical tone only)
• UNCW Alert Google website at www.uncw.edu/alert
• Emergency Information Hotline at 910.962.3991 or toll free at 888.657.5751
• Facebook announcement on official university page
• Twitter announcement from official university account
• "Breaking News" banner on UNCW website
• Homepage news story
• Entrance marquee (visible to public from College Road)