Three years after the massacre of 32 students and faculty at Virginia Tech, campuses around the country have beefed up their emergency notification systems, some with more sophisticated and varied programs than others.

Colleges and universities that use text-messaging systems for emergency notification have differing degrees of enrollment by students. “We are almost at 100 percent, and I guess you’d expect us to be that way,” said Larry Hincker, Virginia Tech’s associate vice president of university relations. “Other universities I’ve talked to, they’re happy if they get 30 or 50 percent enrollment from students” for emergency text messages to be sent to their phones…

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