Sign up for text messaging alerts

Students, faculty, staff, parents and community members can sign up for Virginia Commonwealth University’s text message alert system to receive immediate information about campus emergencies, weather delays and cancellations.

VCU students, faculty and staff

VCU students, faculty and staff may subscribe to VCU Alert text messaging through the main VCU login screen used to log in to services such as the myVCU Portal, student email and the forthcoming faculty and staff Google-powered appsforVCU.

If the system recognizes you as having recently signed up for the text messaging service, you will be passed through to the service you were logging into. Otherwise, you will be asked to sign up again for emergency text messages with your VCU eID.

VCU subscribers may add or change a cell phone number, or add email addresses, via a link in the myVCU Portal.

Parents and community members

Parents and community members also may sign up for VCU’s text message alert system to receive information about campus emergencies and cancellations.

After signing up for VCU Alert text messages, non-VCU subscribers may log in to change their settings or add an additional cell phone number or email.

Questions and support

Contact the VCU helpIT Center at (804) 828-2227 or helpIT@vcu.edu.

Subscribe to alerts@lists.vcu.edu listserv

Subscribe to the alerts@lists.vcu.edu listserv below for more detailed information about campus emergencies. VCU faculty, staff and students do not need to subscribe to this listserv as they will automatically receive alert notices via their VCU email accounts.