UNC Charlotte partners with RealResponse
UNC Charlotte’s Office of Student Accountability and Conflict Resolution and Office of Civil Rights and Title IX are partnering with RealResponse, a two-way communication platform that allows the campus community to share sensitive information safely and securely.
UNC Charlotte is the first school in the UNC System to utilize the RealResponse platform, which seamlessly integrates popular communication tools — QR codes, text messaging and email — making it easy and intuitive to share crucial information.
RealResponse employs anonymous, two-way texting technology to allow users to ask questions, share concerns and quickly receive responses and support. An anonymous reporting system can help create a feeling of safety and security, especially when sensitive issues need to be reported. The platform is an additional way to help connect community members with the resources they need.
Charlotte Athletics has been using the RealResponse platform since 2017, as part of its comprehensive approach for supporting student-athletes. The platform’s ease-of-use and anonymous access have proven to be effective for engagement and communications for Charlotte’s student-athletes. With the platform’s success in athletics, the University is ready to launch the tool campuswide.
How to use realresponse
The campus community can send anonymous texts to +1 855-612-5849 and upload photos and videos for review and response.
Real Response is actively monitored Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., when the University is open. The RealResponse platform is not intended for emergency use. If a member of the campus community is in immediate danger, 911 or UNC Charlotte Police and Public Safety should be contacted at 704-687-2200 or via the LiveSafe app.
About Realresponse
David Chadwick is the founder and CEO of RealResponse. As a student-athlete at Valparaiso and Rice, Chadwick realized that his experience had very little to do with external factors such as facilities, equipment and fans, and everything to do with intangible things such as teammates and coaches, culture and personal relationships.
In an entrepreneurship class, he envisioned a digital solution to answer a challenge he faced, the need for a safe and confidential way to bring feedback to leaders in seats of power. That solution evolved into RealResponse, which now has more than 200 clients, from colleges and universities to sanctioning bodies, integrity units and athletics entities including the National Baseball League, for a reach of more than two million people.