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Community Crisis Contact Numbers and Email Addresses

For faculty & staff: contributing your crisis contact information

When you log into BUSS, a self-service website provided by Human Resources that allows you to easily and confidentially update your personal information, you'll automatically be directed to a page titled Community Crisis Contact Numbers and Email Addresses.  Here, you can contribute your crisis contact information so that the University can help you stay safe and keep you fully informed during a crisis.  The information that you provide using this form will be used only for crisis communication.

Entering your crisis contact information on this page requires very little time, but it may help ensure your safety and that of other Brandeis community members during a crisis.  You may also use the Community Crisis page to direct Brandeis not to contact you during a crisis except via your campus phone and Brandeis email address.   In late August, this page will feature instructions to help you contribute your crisis contact information as quickly as possible.

Entering your crisis contact information 

• Visit buss.brandeis.edu, and log into BUSS using your UNet username and password.
• To access BUSS from off-campus:
  • Visit wormhole.brandeis.edu.
  • Log in using your UNet username and password.
  • Click on the BUSS link near the top of the page that appears.
  • Log into BUSS using your UNet username and password.
    
• In the first box on the Community Crisis page, use the drop-down menus labeled Phone 1, Phone 2, and Phone 3 to select up to three personal phone numbers for the University to use when sending you voice messages during a crisis.  Each menu allows you to select from a list of phone numbers that you have already saved in your personal portfolio on BUSS.  
• To add a new personal phone number or change one of the phone numbers that you have already saved, click on the Manage Phone Numbers link. 
  
• For more information about selecting personal phone numbers, detailed instructions are available.

•  At the bottom of this box, you can activate your cell phone to receive text messages from Brandeis during a crisis.
• If you have already stored a cell phone number in BUSS, that number will automatically appear.  If you haven't stored a cell phone number, click on the Manage Phone Numbers link to add a cell phone number to your personal portfolio.
• Click on the Receive SMS/Text Message checkbox to activate your cell phone number.
• From the SMS/Cell Phone Provider menu, select the name of your cell phone service provider.
• For more information about receiving crisis text messages on your cell phone, detailed instructions are available.

• In the second box on the Community Crisis page,  use the drop-down menu labeled Additional to select a personal email address for the University to use when sending you email messages during a crisis.  This menu allows you to select from a list of email addresses that you have already saved in your personal portfolio on BUSS.  
• To add a new personal email address or change one of the addresses that you have already saved, click on the Manage Email Addresses link. 
  
• For more information about selecting personal email addresses, detailed instructions are available.
• Click on the checkbox labeled Confirm and then on the Submit button.
• If you wish not to be contacted by Brandeis during a crisis except via your campus phone and Brandeis email address, please review our detailed instructions.