CALmessages is the campus´ official Web-based broadcast messaging system, providing email notifications to faculty and staff. Since 2001, the system has provided the means for the Chancellor, the Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost and other authorized administrators to send campuswide announcements to all staff and faculty who have an email address in the CalNet Directory. It is used to electronically distribute Campus Administrative Memos and to notify of updates to campus delegations and policies, records management and various other University business functions.