Penn State Behrend Community Urged to Enroll in PSUTXT
Members of the Penn State Behrend community are urged to register their current cell phone information with the University’s PSUTXT text messaging alerts system.
Enrollment in the program is free and easy to complete, but Penn State Behrend community members must opt-in to receive emergency text messages.
Any current subscribers who would like to review their account status can do so by visiting http://newswires.psu.edu/ and clicking on PSUTXT LOGIN.
To enroll, simply visit http://newswires.psu.edu/ and click on the PSUTXT REGISTER button at the bottom of the page to sign up.
-- Once on the site, be sure to select the Erie Alerts box to receive alerts related to Penn State Erie, The Behrend College.
-- If you do not wish to receive alerts from the University Park campus, be sure to uncheck the University Park alerts box; University Park alerts are selected for everyone by default. Subscribers can select as many alerts as they like.
-- A PSUTXT registration is not complete until you receive a validation code and enter it online. A text message with the validation code will be sent to the cell phone number being registered. Validating the cell phone at the time of opt-in serves three purposes: It verifies that users have an active text messaging service on their accounts; ensures that only the person who owns the mobile phone is signing up for the service; and ensures that the user has correctly keyed in their cell phone number.
PSUTXT is one way for Penn State Behrend to communicate with students, faculty, staff, and their families in the event of an emergency. The system will only be used to deliver urgent notices about Penn State Behrend, such as college closures, power outages, class delays, and other emergency situations.
If you have any questions or problems, please contact Suzanne Scarpino, Penn State Behrend's PSUTXT representative, at sms299@psu.edu or at 814-898-6063.
Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, is a comprehensive residential college offering 34 bachelor’s, six associate, four pre-professional and two graduate degree programs with 22 minors to more than 4,600 students. Focused on providing a student-centered environment, Penn State Behrend connects its students to a major research and land-grant institution on a campus enriched by more than 110 clubs and organizations, 21 NCAA varsity teams and 19 intramural sports. Penn State Behrend is named in recognition of a donation by Mary Behrend, widow of Ernst Behrend, who founded the Hammermill Paper Co. in Erie in 1898. The Behrend family lived on the 400-acre Glenhill Farm, which is the core of the Penn State Behrend campus today. For more information, visit behrend.psu.edu.