Welcome to CruzAlert - Your Emergency Lifeline.
CruzAlert is UC Santa Cruz's emergency notification system, intended to provide critical information rapidly to UCSC students, faculty, and staff during an emergency on campus. The CruzAlert system can deliver voice messages to all phones and text messages to cell phones. The system can also deliver emergency email to UCSC CruzMail accounts.
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If you are an incoming or returning student...
- Please log in to your my.ucsc.edu
- Then select "Student Center"
- Then scroll to the "Contact Information" box near the bottom of page
- And select the "Phone Numbers" link
- Please list all of your telephone numbers. Doing so will ensure that you receive CruzAlert emergency messages.
If you are a faculty or staff member...
Note: For security reasons, updating your CruzAlert information online can only be accessed from a computer connected to the UCSC network.
- Go to http://cruzalert.ucsc.edu/signup
- Log in to CruzAlert with your Employee ID
- Update your contact information
- There are fields for your cell phone, office phone, home phone, TTY, and other phone. There is also a field for an additional email address (may be used if CruzMail is out of service).
How CruzAlert Works
CruzAlert is a combination of several integrated systems, and will be expanded as new technologies become available.
Calling System
The CruzAlert calling system allows campus Emergency Management to send messages to all registered phone numbers and e-mail addresses. For students, all emergency contact numbers (local landline and/or cell phone) provided during registration and all campus e-mail addresses are automatically uploaded. For faculty and staff, all campus phone numbers and e-mail addresses are automatically uploaded, and additional phone numbers (cell phones, home phones, etc.) and e-mail addresses (non-campus) can be voluntarily registered.
RSS Feed
The campus maintains an RSS feed that is used to distribute emergency information and update certain websites, including the Emergency Management site and the main campus homepage. Individuals can also subscribe to this feed using most web browsers with built-in RSS feed readers or using stand-along feed readers.
Social Networking Sites
CruzAlert maintains a presence on several social networking sites, and the emergency RSS feed is used to publish information to these sites as well.
Please note that due to the variety of RSS feed reading software used on these sites, there may be delays between when information is published to official campus sites and when it appears on these social networking sites, so these should be considered as secondary sources.
CruzAlert FAQ
If you have questions about the CruzAlert emergency notification system, please see our frequently asked questions page or email alert@ucsc.edu.
Your Privacy
Protecting your personal information is a responsibility the campus takes very seriously. The CruzAlert system will not be used for any purposes other than UCSC emergency communications and occasional system testing.
