Students: Update or Confirm Your Emergency Contact Information
Each semester students must update and confirm their emergency contact information before registering for classes.
- Contacts however, can be updated at any time in the Buff Portal.
Please take a moment to seriously consider who should be contacted if something were to happen to you. Of course, we hope nothing bad ever happens to you. However, occasionally, a student becomes too ill or has an accident and is unable to contact a loved one. The university may be notified by the hospital, but in most cases the university is only permitted by law to contact the persons you designate as your emergency contacts. The university cannot provide any information to anyone else--not even your parents-- even if they ask.
Consider the following:
What if the person you listed has a phone that stops working? (This has happened!)
- ISSS recommends that you provide information for more than one person. There is no limit to the number of contacts you can include.
Can the person you list receive an international phone call, if they are usually located outside the U.S.? If you need someone to come to Boulder very quickly, do you have a friend or relative in the U.S. that you can include?
- ISSS suggests including contact information for at least one person in the U.S.
Is the phone number you provided for a contact still up-to-date?
- Please check this and update regularly.
In addition to your family, who else might be worried if you are missing?
- Consider listing a couple of close friends in Boulder or your roommate--or at least provide your roommate’s contact information to your emergency contact.
Hopefully, the university will never need to use your emergency contact information. But, if it is needed, you will know that the most important people will be notified.